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Goldman Sachs Still Has Luster Investors, forget the analyst chatter -- Goldman is still a winner. |
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October 31, 2011
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MF Global Shares Should Have Dropped: What You Need to Know Shares of troubled broker MF Global stayed perfectly steady today. However, that was only because trading in MF Global's shares was halted. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2011
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What Really Killed MF Global An amped-up business model is taking blame it doesn't deserve. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2011
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MF Global: Fraud, Incompetence, or a Bit of Both? MF Global's implosion was epic. But was it pure stupidity, outright fraud, or a bit of both that caused it? |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
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MF Global: Oversight Failure Once the board of directors allowed Corzine to wear two hats as an executive and a trader, the odds of the firm failing increased exponentially. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2006
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Bear Stearns Not in Hibernation Surprising strength in the fixed income business powered a strong quarter. However, investors may want to look elsewhere for a bargain. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2010
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Is JPMorgan the New Lehman? Think you know all the risks? Think again. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2004
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Leapin' Lehman! The brokerage reports a fabulous first quarter. Things are looking good for brokerage companies, and their stocks reflect that. |
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December 16, 2011
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Prelude to a Collapse: MF Global Before Jon Corzine The Kevin Davis era warned of trouble to come. Why wasn't anyone listening? |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What's Next for Jon Corzine? End of an era for a reckless risk-taker. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
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MF Global: Who Knew What, and When? What customers, brokers, and employees saw leading up to the bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2011
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U.S. Regulators' Epic Fail Rules are on the books that should have allowed orderly transfer of MF Global's customer funds. But that's not happening. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
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J. Christopher Flowers: Corzine's Kingmaker The private equity magnate J. Christopher Flowers buoyed MF Global with a timely investment, but with that money came the seeds of the broker's undoing. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2011
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Where's the Money, Jon Corzine? The bankruptcy of MF Global isn't breaking news anymore, but roughly $600 million of customer money is still missing in action. As Warren Buffett likes to say, you only know who's swimming naked when the tide goes out. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Jon Corzine: The Wrong Man for the Job When Jon Corzine took over as CEO of MF Global, he brought with him a penchant for risk-taking. It was a drive that would ultimately prove the company's undoing. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
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The Investment Banking Wrap-Up A look back at an eventful week in the investment banking segment: Lehman, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Sterns all report; the results are mixed. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2011
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Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded. |
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January 19, 2012
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Wall Street: Fooled By Randomness "If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?" |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2012
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An All-or-Nothing 2012 for JPMorgan Chase Let's look at this year's prospects for this company. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2011
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Citigroup Goes Pink Citigroup becomes the latest major bank to announce layoffs. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2011
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Who's Responsible for the MF Global Mess? Take Your Pick A closer look at the key players in unwinding the futures and commodities failure. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2011
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You Want Real Change in the Financial Industry? Fund manager and legal crusader James Koutoulas is taking on powerful interests in the banking industry and refusing to back down. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
MF Global Infographic: How the Trade Actually Went Down A credit rating downgrade was all it took to spark a liquidity crisis. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
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$1.2 Billion Vanishes From MF Global In the midst of futures broker MF Global free-falling into bankruptcy, it was revealed that $1.2 billion of supposedly segregated customer money had disappeared. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2011
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Are Bank Stocks Cheap? Beware of judging a book value by its cover. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
MF Global Infographic: Jon Corzine, Chief Executive At MF Global, Corzine built an executive team stacked with those that either viewed the world just as he did, or would be unwilling to seriously challenge his decisions. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
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Who's More to Blame: Derivatives or the Glass-Steagall Repeal? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Which is bad, and which is worse? And which of these two things is more to blame for the crisis? |
Wall Street & Technology
January 24, 2006
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Trading Gets Exotic As the search for higher returns and diversification has sparked a surge in alternative investments, financial firms are working to establish a technology infrastructure capable of managing an acceptable balance between risk and reward. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2011
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MF Global: It Just Keeps Getting More Remarkable As much as $1.2 billion in customer funds may be missing from MF Global's coffers. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2010
Silver-Greenberg et al. |
Jon Corzine Is Working at MF Global. Say What? He's been the head of Goldman Sachs and the Democratic senator from and governor of New Jersey. Yet Corzine's third act may be the most surprising of them all |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2011
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Which Banks Continue to Weigh on Wall Street? Despite U.S. banks disclosing more data in regulatory filings, stocks continue to fall. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Take That, Lehman Short-Sellers! Embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers is battling tooth and nail to avoid going down the same path as Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
My Surreal Life: Jon Corzine Fact is sometimes stranger than fiction. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2011
Tom Lydon |
Stock ETFs End the Week Lower as Financial Stocks Add to Job Woes Exchange-traded funds closed out a fifth week of losses with more selling on Friday, after Bank of America and American Express led financial ETFs lower. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2011
John Reeves |
Jon Corzine Returns to Washington An account of Corzine's appearance before the House Agriculture Committee regarding his role in the collapse of MF Global. |
FDIC FYI
March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
