Europe Spurning the Short Sale
Back in August, we shook our heads as European leaders put a ban on shorting European stocks– and the whole world of futures scrambled to find out just how limited they would be (their market are down about 4.2% since that ban, by the way- though past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results). […]
In Defense of the Financial Blogosphere
Making its way around the blogosphere this morning is a moderately entertaining and possibly horrifying video of SocGen’s Todd Martin’s media appearance and tirade against the financial blogosphere. You should watch this (just skip to the 4 minute mark). [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOci_t-nHGQ] Now, much of this criticism targets anonymous and influential bloggers, like Zerohedge. We’ll admit these […]
Weekend Reads
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for our weekend reads to go out. Before we get to the good stuff, let’s think about what happened this week. Republican candidates duked it out once more in a televised debate, and Christie threw his support over to Romney. The European soap opera continued to toy with the […]
A Higher Standard
We were really confused when we walked into the office this morning to a slew of emails asking us to refute the erroneous conclusions found in an article entitled “Debunking Myths About Managed Futures” by one Jason Whitby. The piece is, in our opinion, riddled with misinformation and inaccuracies. What confused us, though, was that […]
Behind Enemy Lines?
It’s hard to work in finance and ignore the Occupy movements. In Chicago, the participants march past our offices on a regular basis. The whispers and rumors of some of the supposed policy proposals could have wide-sweeping consequences for the financial sector as a whole if realized. Much of the press and government have expressed […]
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