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Is Everyone a Day Trader

March 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Capital Markets, Gridstone

[Cross-posted on the Gridstone Blog].

Ft.com has a nice widget that is very recent by my reckoning. If you hover over the name of a public company in any article on ft.com, a nice “chartlet” pops up. If you click on the company it takes you to the company in the Company Research part of their website.

I thought the pop-up was quite cool. It performs well, looks nice. It could even have been useful to readers. If I have one problem with it, it is the choice of the chart – a daily price chart. More »

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Risk and Investment Banking Compensation

March 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Capital Markets

The erstwhile bosses at financial majors Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Countrywide, were in Washington at Congressional hearings, defending their erstwhile pay packages. The New York times reports it here.

I have written before about the challenges in setting CEO compensation before [link]. In the capital markets it gets even more complex. More »

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