SIPC announces "that it is liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC of New York, NY, under the Securities Investor Protection Act...
IB has added a risk premium for large margin balances. over $1,000,000 0.62% (BM + 0.5%) over $3,000,000 0.37% (BM + 0.25%) over...
From the New York Times Nov 10, 2008: "Roy Niederhoffer, founder of R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, whose more famous brother, Victor,...
With actual Fed Funds at the 0.23% level for 5 days IB customers are getting zero interest paid on their cash. Sure would be nice to have money...
"Universa Investments, the $2 billion hedge fund founded by New York University risk engineering professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, did something...
IB customers are now being charged $1.00 a month for the "free" ICE/NYBOT data feed. Contrary to the post from IB representative JPasciolla in...
From the New York Times, October 28: " The crisis that hit last month at the Reserve Fund, the nationâs oldest money market fund, has frozen...
Any dealer giving quotes on Iceland Krona (ISK)? Bloomberg story on 10/09/2008 says last trade was 340 Krona per Euro. "The bid/ask spread...
Song Of The Day I Don't Like Mondays By The Boomtown Rats Written by Bob Geldof "Tell me why I don't like Mondays I want to shoot...
From The New York Times 09-28-2008: "New Jersey derives 40 percent of its income tax collections from 1 percent of its filers, according to Tom...
Today ER2 has a 2.43% range (18.10 points) compared to NQ with 1.27% and ES with 0.93%. Is this expiration day oddness or something else?
From the New York Times 07/26/08: Government officials in New York are preparing for what could be the biggest single-year decline in pay on...
Gerald Tsai Jr., a fund manager and financier who pioneered the creation of performance funds in the 1950s and â60s and later turned a canning...
I know all about numbers and since there is now a position open locally I'm getting into the numbers game. All cash and tax sheltered. TRENTON...
IB has a new section in their statements "Equity Value Time Series". This is a useless piece of junk and clutter. You can't custom template the...
"The international derivatives exchange Eurex will be launching a new futures product based on the dividends of the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® as...
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