i was in washington this week to attend the secs open meeting for rulemaking on credit rating agencies that agenda item was postponed but i had a chance to visit with mark story of the sec. i got to know mark through the secs informal blogger network. mark had wonderful news that he shared with me he has been promoted to a new position at the commission ......
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this morning on the radio i heard a promotional advertisement for feed the pig .a i have heard things about this site before and decided to check it out.a it is outstanding.a they have calendars so you can see ways to save money throughout the year and there areamany tips on how to pinch pennies. basically the concept is to teach people how to save knock down their debt and generally hel......
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mayor michael bloomberg might have officially stepped away from running the company that made him a billionaire but that doesnt mean hes stopped giving it a plug whenever he can. in a speech this morning on the dire topic of the struggling financial markets bloomberg sounded like he was making an advertising pitch for those splitscreen computers his company sells . quo......
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on wednesday we visited the financial news agency bloomberg and although i havent had much free time to detail my experiences i wanted to blog about the trip as it was quite revealing. it was fascinating to see how the company works as bloomberg is such a different world to that of newspapers.a the copy is filed almost instantaneously and then gradually built up by adding context and......
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foremskis take bloomberg and thomson reuters nyse tri are directly impacted by the financial crisis. their journalists are part of the realtime financial information systems that are sold to traders and analysts on wall street and elsewhere. it is not known yet how many seats for the bloomberg and thomson reuters terminals have been lost as a result of the financial crisis b......
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for the bloomberg order management system .a since im currently working on upgrading and integrating multiple completely different orderpricingetc systems this little tumblr gem is incredibly prescient in its timing. soupsoup georgiegirlnyc ......
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bloomberg lp in the midst of negotiations to buy back 20 percent stake that merrill lynch has held has done a major restructuring of its operations and shuffled the top management reports reuters . the changes a new multimedia operation will include bloombergs internet television and radio news services and will be separate from its text news service. 8220......
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ato say new york yankee executives have chutzpah is an understatement. to say new york city mayor bloomberg has lost his fiscal sense is not an overstatement.a yesterday assembly member richard brodsky who is trying to bring law and order to new yorks unwieldy public authorities revealed that the new york yankees are asking for 350 million more in public financing for their stadium......
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today while surfing the web i came across an article on bloomberg that was reporting on a recent trend of suicides utilizing a gas called hydrogen sulfide. this is a serious concern in japan as innocent bystanders have been injured by these gas fumes. as a matter of ethics i will not provide a direct link to the article but here are two excerpts that together concern me jap an. .....
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it can be tougher than getting the winning bid in at an ebay auction. traders who want to automate what they do and get the best price have long been saddled with proprietary systems like bloomberg to run their algorithms. no more. now theres marketcetera . its a gpl version 2.0 system written mainly in java aimed at automating your trade operations so you can play with the ......
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