Billionaire Investor Says Babies Are Like Divorce, They Both ‘Kill’ Focus
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is making headlines after talking about “baby’s lips on a girl’s bosom” as a career-stunting “killer” for female Wall Street traders. Speaking at a symposium, he went on to discuss why he thinks being a mother makes it more difficult to become a successful trader in an ultra-competitive and male-dominated field. Tudor Jones made the controversial comments last month at a University of Virginia panel that was not supposed to be reported on or recorded.
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Sony Stock Soars As Hedge Fund Manager and Investor Dan Loeb (Politely) Demands Change
Shareholder activism is a rough business. Investors who amass large stockholdings and then demand changes are usually resisted and excoriated by the companies' managements, who do everything they can to defeat them. The resulting fights for control can often be public and ugly, with both sides seeking to dig up dirt or arguments with which to discredit the other side.
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Debt Ceiling Deadline Delayed: Good News and Bad
Who would have thought that Fannie Mae (FNMA) , once the recipient of $116 billion in government bailout funds, would one day be the reason the government could delay its debt ceiling deadline by almost four months? U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told CNBC Friday that a one-time payment of $59.4 billion from Fannie Mae pushes back the debt ceiling deadline effectively from May 19 “until at least Labor Day,” which falls on September 2
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Only 150 of 3500 U.S. Colleges Are Worth the Investment: Former Secretary of Education
The U.S. is home to some of the greatest colleges and universities in the world.
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No, Don’t ‘Sell In May And Go Away’
It's May again, so that means you can't turn on financial TV without being bombarded with advice to dump all your stocks until the end of the summer when it's safe to buy them again. This advice, "Sell in May and go away," is based on analyses of average market performance by month over the past 50 years. Related: Dow 15,000: 'Sometimes a Bullish Market Is Just a Bullish Market' As you would expect (based on the aphorism), and as you can see in this char t, May has tended to be a weak month for stock performance, though stocks have still delivered a positive return in the month
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Dow 15,000: ‘Sometimes a Bullish Market Is Just a Bullish Market’
By Michael Santoli The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped above 15,000 for the first time in its long history Friday morning on the strength of a thousand fears going unrealized. The employment report for April — showing a greater-than-forecast 165,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate slipping down to 7.5% — was just the latest bit of economic news that looked merely OK but was good enough to allay widespread anxiety that the U.S.
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April Jobs Stronger Than Expected but Recovery ‘Very, Very Slow,’ Says Prof. William Dickens
Employers added 165,000 to payrolls in April, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.5% from 7.6% -- the lowest rate since December 2008. Economists had expected the rate would remain unchanged from March and payrolls would grow by 145,000
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Former British PM Tony Blair: ‘It’s About Power, That’s The Rationale for Europe Today’
As was widely expected, the European Central Bank cut interest rates for the first time in close to a year from 0.75% to 0.50%. The rate cut was driven by an economy in recession, with unemployment hitting a record high in April and inflation dropping the most in more than four years
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‘Homeownership Is Still the Cornerstone of the American Dream’: Rick Newman
Housing data out this week continues to support the case that a recovery is in the making. Home prices jumped 8.6% and 9.3% since February 2012, according to the latest reading of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for its 10- and 20-city composites. Those are the biggest gains since 2006
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About P/E (But Were Afraid to Ask)
One of the most common numbers you hear if you listen to stock forecasts is the "P/E ratio"--the price of the stock or market relative to the company's earnings. Sometimes, the P/E ratio can be very useful for getting a sense of whether a stock or market is cheap or expensive. At other times, however, the number can be highly misleading
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