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Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Surprised Charges, His Lawyer Says
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG’s CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by the U.S. indictment since he has been cooperating
Source: www.businessweek.com

Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Charged in Scheme to Boost Bonuses
Higgs and Siddiqui said during their guilty pleas that Serageldin told them to overstate the value of mortgage-backed assets in a Credit Suisse trading book known as ABN1 after the collapse of the U.S. housing market. Both said they did so to
Source: www.businessweek.com

Private trading suggests Facebook is worth $94 billion
That’s a jump from where shares had been trading. Just two weeks ago When that happens, the option holder pays tax on the proceeds, while the option issuer books a compensation expense. That expense translates into a deduction from corporate taxes
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  • Share prices signal optimism for US banks - Financial Times

    Share prices signal optimism for US banks
    Financial Times
    The S&P financials sector in the US has begun trading above the book value of its assets for the first time since July in a sign of a turn in investor sentiment towards banks. Historically, if bank shares have traded below one times their book value,

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    Ex-Credit Suisse traders admit cooking subprime books - Reuters


    Globe and Mail
    Ex-Credit Suisse traders admit cooking subprime books
    Reuters
    Higgs told a federal judge that while he was a managing director in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse in London in 2007 and 2008, he and others manipulated and inflated the cash bond position markings of a trading book, called ABN1,
    Credit Suisse Worker Surrenders to FBI as Prosecutors Said to Plan ChargesBloomberg
    Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Surprised Charges, His Lawyer SaysBusinessWeek
    US says Credit Suisse traders falsified subprime booksReuters UK
    Globe and Mail
    all 98 news articles »

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    Morgan Stanley Getting Vegemite for New Wall Street’s 15% Bogey - BusinessWeek

    Morgan Stanley Getting Vegemite for New Wall Street's 15% Bogey
    BusinessWeek
    The stock traded below the firm's book value for more than 400 straight days from May 2010 to mid-January. Gorman elicited cheers when he told a gathering of former managing directors in November that the company is doing much better than its stock.

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    Indian traders in China to begin legal battle to clear their names - The Hindu

    Indian traders in China to begin legal battle to clear their names
    The Hindu
    The two Indian traders who were held hostage in the city of Yiwu for two weeks in December and now stand accused of owing 10 million RMB ($1.58 million) will on Monday begin a legal battle to clear their names and bring to book Chinese businessmen

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  • Congressional Insider Trading Bill Moves Forward in the Senate
    WASHINGTON — The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act They hope that a law like this on the books would at least in part help to clean up their tattered image. “It is a violation of trust that our constituents place in us, a violation
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    ‘Stock market trading is like shopping’
    Charmel Delos Santos has written a book “High Heeled Traders: Understand Trading with Shopping, Fashion and Shoes,” which gives women a step-by-step guide to trading while balancing duties as a mother and wife. “The financial world is dominated by men
    Source: www.abs-cbnnews.com

    15 Stocks Trading Near Highs Undervalued By The Graham Number
    Market cap of $600.43M. The stock is currently trading at 4.63% below its 52-week high. TTM Diluted EPS at $0.91, MRQ Book Value Per Share at $16.70, Graham number at $18.49 (vs. current price at $13.30, implies a potential upside of 39.03%).
    Source: seekingalpha.com

    Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Charged in Scheme to Boost Bonuses
    Higgs and Siddiqui said during their guilty pleas that Serageldin told them to overstate the value of mortgage-backed assets in a Credit Suisse trading book known as ABN1 after the collapse of the U.S. housing market. Both said they did so to
    Source: www.businessweek.com

    Financing a Rare Book on Endangered Species
    Almost as great a task, however, has been trying to sell his project, “Trading in Extinction,” to book publishers on four continents. Many turned him down because of what they perceived as unpalatable subject matter. Others just demanded he
    Source: lens.blogs.nytimes.com

    Goldman Sachs Among Banks Fighting to Exempt Half of Swaps Books
    Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — More than half of the derivatives- trading business of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and three other large banks could fall largely outside the Dodd- Frank Act if they succeed in lobbying regulators to exempt
    Source: www.businessweek.com

    Trading The MACD Divergence
    This, however, is typically not considered a good strategy. Many trading books have derisively dubbed such a technique as “adding to your losers.” However, in this case the trader has a logical reason for doing so - the MACD histogram has shown
    Source: finance.yahoo.com

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  • Senate Passes Ban on Insider Trading - ABC News (blog)


    Salon
    Senate Passes Ban on Insider Trading
    ABC News (blog)
    The only reason congress is passing this bill is because a guy came out with a book “Throw the Bums Out” and it shows just who's making money off inside trading in the government. The book shows Al Gore made over 34m on one transaction.
    Which Three Senators Voted Against Banning Insider Trading in Congress and Why?Big Government
    STOCK Act Passes Through SenateSuffolk Voice
    Editorial: Race on STOCK Act gets curiouser and curiouserUSA TODAY
    The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog) -Salon -The Moderate Voice
    all 1,590 news articles »

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    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading - Wall Street Journal

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading
    Wall Street Journal
    Investors believe the insurer may soon be able to launch a buyback to repurchase shares that trade at less than 30% of book value. Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD, $54.70, +$5.39, +10.92%) fourth-quarter earnings rose 5.7% as the biopharmaceutical

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    Book tells tales of southern Illinois - Carmi Times

    Book tells tales of southern Illinois
    Carmi Times
    Homesteading a 640-acre tract of land in Spring Garden Township, a part of southern Illinois known as Little Egypt, Nancy Jane ran a trading post and raised a family. Born on Christmas Day in 1802 in North Carolina and dying on Christmas Day 1889 in

    Source: news.google.com

    Ex-Credit Suisse traders admit cooking subprime books - Reuters


    Globe and Mail
    Ex-Credit Suisse traders admit cooking subprime books
    Reuters
    Higgs told a federal judge that while he was a managing director in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse in London in 2007 and 2008, he and others manipulated and inflated the cash bond position markings of a trading book, called ABN1,
    Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief Surprised Charges, His Lawyer SaysBusinessWeek
    US says Credit Suisse traders falsified subprime booksReuters UK
    Former Credit Suisse trader admits falsifying subprime booksGlobe and Mail

    all 98 news articles »

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    Book profits on long positions on or before Budget - Business Standard

    Book profits on long positions on or before Budget
    Business Standard
    Strictly in value terms too, a market trading at a current PE of 19 doesn't seem justifiable from the point of view of earnings growth. Earnings Per Share (EPS) growth in the past four quarters has been barely 10 per cent. We'd need to see a doubling

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    Dealbreaker’s Senior Bookmaker Has A Few Things He’d Like To Get Off His Chest - DealBreaker

    Dealbreaker's Senior Bookmaker Has A Few Things He'd Like To Get Off His Chest
    DealBreaker
    By Anonymous Sports Book Manager Anonymous Sports Book Manager left academia to run a trading department at one of the world's largest offshore bookmaking outfits. He now works onshore with his cellphone, pencil, rice paper, and a bucket of water.

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    Indian traders in China to begin legal battle to clear their names - The Hindu

    Indian traders in China to begin legal battle to clear their names
    The Hindu
    The two Indian traders who were held hostage in the city of Yiwu for two weeks in December and now stand accused of owing 10 million RMB ($1.58 million) will on Monday begin a legal battle to clear their names and bring to book Chinese businessmen

    Source: news.google.com

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News - BusinessWeek

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News
    BusinessWeek
    3 (Bloomberg) — Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG's CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by the US indictment since he has been cooperating with investigators

    and more »

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  • Commentary: Face(book) the Music - Wired News


    Wired News
    Commentary: Face(book) the Music
    Wired News
    We are a ways off from the first hours of trading Facebook stock, a giddy period driven more by hysteria and must-execute fund purchases than facts. And we're probably years from being able to say with any certainty whether this valuation was fair.
    Positive employment data lift US stocksFinancial Times

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    Dealbreaker’s Senior Bookmaker Has A Few Things He’d Like To Get Off His Chest - DealBreaker

    Dealbreaker's Senior Bookmaker Has A Few Things He'd Like To Get Off His Chest
    DealBreaker
    By Anonymous Sports Book Manager Anonymous Sports Book Manager left academia to run a trading department at one of the world's largest offshore bookmaking outfits. He now works onshore with his cellphone, pencil, rice paper, and a bucket of water.

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    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading - Wall Street Journal

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading
    Wall Street Journal
    Investors believe the insurer may soon be able to launch a buyback to repurchase shares that trade at less than 30% of book value. Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD, $54.70, +$5.39, +10.92%) fourth-quarter earnings rose 5.7% as the biopharmaceutical

    and more »

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    Which Three Senators Voted Against Banning Insider Trading in Congress and Why? - Big Government


    Salon
    Which Three Senators Voted Against Banning Insider Trading in Congress and Why?
    Big Government
    Coburn said his opposition to banning members of Congress from engaging in the kinds of insider trading revealed in Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer's New York Times bestselling book, Throw Them All Out, and the much-discussed 60 Minutes investigation
    Senate Passes Ban on Insider TradingABC News (blog)
    STOCK Act Passes Through SenateSuffolk Voice
    Editorial: Race on STOCK Act gets curiouser and curiouserUSA TODAY
    Salon -The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog) -The Moderate Voice
    all 1,591 news articles »

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    Book tells tales of southern Illinois - Carmi Times

    Book tells tales of southern Illinois
    Carmi Times
    Homesteading a 640-acre tract of land in Spring Garden Township, a part of southern Illinois known as Little Egypt, Nancy Jane ran a trading post and raised a family. Born on Christmas Day in 1802 in North Carolina and dying on Christmas Day 1889 in

    Source: news.google.com

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News - BusinessWeek

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News
    BusinessWeek
    3 (Bloomberg) — Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG's CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by the US indictment since he has been cooperating with investigators

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss - The Japan Times

    Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss
    The Japan Times
    The world's largest maker of plasma TVs has joined Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. in increasing loss forecasts as manufacturers struggle to cope with the yen trading near postwar high levels, damping the repatriated value of their overseas sales.

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla’s Band & Insider Trading Bill - Patch.com

    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla's Band & Insider Trading Bill
    Patch.com
    US Senator Scott Brown read a book to kids at the Beethoven, stopped off at the Holy Name, Century 21, and Roche Bros. By David Ertischek US Senator Scott Brown shows off his Tom Brady jersey. Brown kept on asking people who they were rooting for in

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    Credit Suisse Worker Surrenders to FBI as Prosecutors Said to Plan Charges - Bloomberg


    Bloomberg
    Credit Suisse Worker Surrenders to FBI as Prosecutors Said to Plan Charges
    Bloomberg
    Higgs and Siddiqui said during their guilty pleas that Serageldin told them to overstate the value of mortgage-backed assets in a Credit Suisse trading book known as ABN1 after the collapse of the US housing market. Both said they did so to enhance
    Ex-Credit Suisse Traders Plead Guilty to CDO Bonus-SchemeSan Francisco Chronicle
    UK trader pleads guilty over to hiding subprime lossesTelegraph.co.uk
    US goes after three ex-Credit Suisse bankersCNN

    all 534 news articles »

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  • Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss - The Japan Times

    Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss
    The Japan Times
    The world's largest maker of plasma TVs has joined Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. in increasing loss forecasts as manufacturers struggle to cope with the yen trading near postwar high levels, damping the repatriated value of their overseas sales.

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla’s Band & Insider Trading Bill - Patch.com

    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla's Band & Insider Trading Bill
    Patch.com
    US Senator Scott Brown read a book to kids at the Beethoven, stopped off at the Holy Name, Century 21, and Roche Bros. By David Ertischek US Senator Scott Brown shows off his Tom Brady jersey. Brown kept on asking people who they were rooting for in

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    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News - BusinessWeek

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News
    BusinessWeek
    3 (Bloomberg) — Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG's CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by the US indictment since he has been cooperating with investigators

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading - Wall Street Journal

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading
    Wall Street Journal
    Investors believe the insurer may soon be able to launch a buyback to repurchase shares that trade at less than 30% of book value. Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD, $54.70, +$5.39, +10.92%) fourth-quarter earnings rose 5.7% as the biopharmaceutical

    and more »

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    4 Stocks Trading Under Book Value, And Why ArcelorMittal Tops The List - Seeking Alpha

    4 Stocks Trading Under Book Value, And Why ArcelorMittal Tops The List
    Seeking Alpha
    What follows is a list of companies that are trading under book value. They cover a variety of different industries: Aluminium, steel & iron, technology, and regional banking. Of the four, ArcelorMittal is viewed most preferably on the Street with a

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    Commentary: Face(book) the Music - Wired News


    Wired News
    Commentary: Face(book) the Music
    Wired News
    We are a ways off from the first hours of trading Facebook stock, a giddy period driven more by hysteria and must-execute fund purchases than facts. And we're probably years from being able to say with any certainty whether this valuation was fair.

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

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  • Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News - BusinessWeek

    Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Wal-Mart in Court News
    BusinessWeek
    3 (Bloomberg) — Kareem Serageldin, the ex-global head of Credit Suisse Group AG's CDO business charged in a bonus- boosting fraud tied to a $5.35 billion trading book, was surprised by the US indictment since he has been cooperating with investigators

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss - The Japan Times

    Panasonic expects to book record ¥780 billion net loss
    The Japan Times
    The world's largest maker of plasma TVs has joined Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. in increasing loss forecasts as manufacturers struggle to cope with the yen trading near postwar high levels, damping the repatriated value of their overseas sales.

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading - Wall Street Journal

    US HOT STOCKS: Eli Lilly Active In Late Trading
    Wall Street Journal
    Investors believe the insurer may soon be able to launch a buyback to repurchase shares that trade at less than 30% of book value. Gilead Sciences Inc.'s (GILD, $54.70, +$5.39, +10.92%) fourth-quarter earnings rose 5.7% as the biopharmaceutical

    and more »

    Source: news.google.com

    Commentary: Face(book) the Music - Wired News


    Wired News
    Commentary: Face(book) the Music
    Wired News
    We are a ways off from the first hours of trading Facebook stock, a giddy period driven more by hysteria and must-execute fund purchases than facts. And we're probably years from being able to say with any certainty whether this valuation was fair.
    Filing turns Facebook into an open bookHouston Chronicle
    An Open Book: Facebook Delivers an IPO SurpriseeWire Informer
    Facebook IPO: Should You Invest In It?Wall Street Journal (blog)
    BusinessWeek -IBNLive.com
    all 7,672 news articles »

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    US says Credit Suisse traders falsified subprime books - Reuters UK


    Globe and Mail
    US says Credit Suisse traders falsified subprime books
    Reuters UK
    By Grant McCool | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several former Credit Suisse traders manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities when the US real estate market slumped in 2007 and 2008, a former London-based trader at the investment bank admitted in
    Ex-Credit Suisse Traders Plead Guilty to CDO Bonus-SchemeSan Francisco Chronicle
    UK trader pleads guilty over to hiding subprime lossesTelegraph.co.uk
    Credit Suisse, Standard, BAA, Glaxo, AIG, Apple in Court NewsBloomberg
    Wall Street Journal (blog) -CNN
    all 534 news articles »

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    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla’s Band & Insider Trading Bill - Patch.com

    Sen. Scott Brown Learns About Bees; Talks Ayla's Band & Insider Trading Bill
    Patch.com
    US Senator Scott Brown read a book to kids at the Beethoven, stopped off at the Holy Name, Century 21, and Roche Bros. By David Ertischek US Senator Scott Brown shows off his Tom Brady jersey. Brown kept on asking people who they were rooting for in

    Source: news.google.com

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  • Ex-Credit Suisse Global CDO Chief Charged and Two Plead Guilty
    “Bonus awards, as Serageldin well knew, were closely tied to the performance of the trading book,” prosecutors said. He earned $7.27 million in salary and other compensation in 2007, the U.S. said. After the bank learned of the
    Source: www.businessweek.com

    15 Stocks Trading Near Highs Undervalued By The Graham Number
    Market cap of $600.43M. The stock is currently trading at 4.63% below its 52-week high. TTM Diluted EPS at $0.91, MRQ Book Value Per Share at $16.70, Graham number at $18.49 (vs. current price at $13.30, implies a potential upside of 39.03%).
    Source: seekingalpha.com

    What’s your trading mistake? Overtrading, overconfidence or impatience?
    The book, which was first published in 1917, covers some studies he did on the trading behavior of accounts at the time. What he found was timeless. The language is charmingly stuck in the World War I era. “At the fag-end of the never-to-be
    Source: www.commodityonline.com

    Financing a Rare Book on Endangered Species
    Almost as great a task, however, has been trying to sell his project, “Trading in Extinction,” to book publishers on four continents. Many turned him down because of what they perceived as unpalatable subject matter. Others just demanded he
    Source: lens.blogs.nytimes.com

    Book Trading
    Ever had those piles of books, just stacked around the house, gathering dust? They are the books that will never be read again yet parting with them seems wrong. Well, what if those old books could be turned into credit for new books? This is the whole
    Source: www.examiner.com

    Trading The MACD Divergence
    This, however, is typically not considered a good strategy. Many trading books have derisively dubbed such a technique as “adding to your losers.” However, in this case the trader has a logical reason for doing so - the MACD histogram has shown
    Source: finance.yahoo.com

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  • Hedge Fund’s Frankenstein Algorithm Stalks Robert Harris Thriller: Books - Bloomberg


    Bloomberg
    Hedge Fund's Frankenstein Algorithm Stalks Robert Harris Thriller: Books
    Bloomberg
    Instead of a lumbering giant, the monster is a computer algorithm that makes a killing on the stock market by sensing fear and trading on this information. Our flawed hero is a quant named Alex Hoffmann, a brilliant American physicist who moved to

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    Book World: In ‘Bond Girl’ by Erin Duffy, a woman takes on high finance - Washington Post

    Book World: In 'Bond Girl' by Erin Duffy, a woman takes on high finance
    Washington Post
    While you may pick up some financial literacy along the way — you don't often find the Federal Open Market Committee referred to in a book with a red-soled stiletto on its cover — you're more likely to learn workplace details: Trading floors are kept

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    API Technologies dips 0.3% on weak volume - Military & Aerospace Electronics

    API Technologies dips 0.3% on weak volume
    Military & Aerospace Electronics
    Aggregate volume: there were 41771 shares worth US$148539 traded. The Total NASDAQ Market of 2384 stocks traded today, which was up 1.0 points or 0.1% to 1690. -"A stock price down to at least two-thirds of tangible book value per share";
    IPG Photonics [United States] rises in strong trading with rising open Laser Focus world

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  • Goldman Sachs Among Banks Fighting to Exempt Half of Swaps Books
    Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — More than half of the derivatives- trading business of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and three other large banks could fall largely outside the Dodd- Frank Act if they succeed in lobbying regulators to exempt
    Source: www.businessweek.com

    Maverick Trading Announces 2011 Returns and Profit Sharing for Prop Traders
    Maverick Trading recruited at two industry events in Dallas and Las Vegas, hosted two summits for its traders, and had its flagship book, Maverick Trading: Professional Techniques to Create Generational Wealth, published by McGraw-Hill.
    Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

    Book Trading
    Ever had those piles of books, just stacked around the house, gathering dust? They are the books that will never be read again yet parting with them seems wrong. Well, what if those old books could be turned into credit for new books? This is the whole
    Source: www.examiner.com

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