Financial Markets

Always suspected this. No comment ! From the Guardian(UK): In the film Wall Street, which symbolised the excess of the 1980s, the most successful traders were odious alpha-males with aggression seeping from every pore. But stereotypes often have a kernel of truth, and researchers from Cambridge University have concluded what everyone outside the City has [...]

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Much of the innovation in exchanges and derivatives has come from Chicago – not New York or London. Once best known for derivatives in farm products – cattle, hogs etc. _ Chicago leads the rest of the world in innovating and dominating in the trading of derivative products(options, futures, commodities etc), symbolised by the emergence of the Chicago [...]

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