On his Mad Money show last week, Jim Cramer encouraged viewers to add short-term trading to their portfolios. But how can an investor determine with certainty when a stock has “flown too high” and when to buy it back?
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A French judge sentenced former trader Jerome Kerviel to three years in prison and ordered him to repay a 4.9 billion euro ($6.8 billion) in damages to Societe Generale SA (SCGLY) for his role in one of the largest trading scandal’s in history.
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Bank of America (BAC) is reportedly laying off as many as 400 people as revenue from trading and advising clients falls.
Bank of America, the country’s largest bank by assets, is laying off people ranging from junior analysts to managing directors, Bloomberg News said without naming its sources.
“This sounds like an acceleration of the usual year-end cutbacks among the lowest…
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Bank of America Reportedly Planning Layoffs originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:02:00.
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