Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Switzerland’s largest bank by assets, hiked its CEO’s pay by 21% over his pay package for the previous year.
However, the bank’s re-engineered investment bank head became... Read More
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has just revealed the changes to its stock portfolio for the third quarter. The Oracle of Obama's conglomerate has a stock portfolio worth around $101... Read More
CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE:CVI)Â have today suffered a loss in their ongoing battle with Carl Icahn over the future of the company. He finds himself in control of 69% of... Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pressing charges against an alleged pyramid scheme that targeted Asian and Latino communities with misleading promises, but anyone who is shorting Herbalife Ltd.... Read More
Despite news Goldman Sachs is expanding their algorithmic bond trading, humans are nonetheless in demand on fixed-income trading desks, a recent Greenwich study observed. Part of the demand is... Read More
Tweeter stocks jumped 1500 percent one day after Twitter announced that it would hold an IPO, a great sign for Twitter and a bad one for the investing public.... Read More
Tax Inversions And Relocation Allowances by Footnoted
As most people know by now, the Treasury announced some pretty significant rules late yesterday meant to curb so-called tax inversion deals. And... Read More
Candidates aren’t exactly lining up around the block to join Donald Trump’s hypothetical presidential cabinet.
In a June interview with MSNBC, the real estate mogul, reality television star and GOP... Read More
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Morning Market NewsÂ
Stocks that are expected to trade actively in U.S. markets on Friday include: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE), J. C.... Read More
Alibaba Holdings has finally filed for an IPO in the United States. The Chinese internet giant controls the vast majority of e-commerce in the east-Asian economy. The official filing... Read More