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Where there is money, there are swindlers. Protect yourself by learning how investors have been betrayed in the past.
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Every trader wants to set a record, but the hope is that it will be a record profit rather than a loss. With losses topping out at $7.1 billion, Jerome Kerviel better than tripled the trading ...
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Peter Young's notoriety as one of the most memorable rogue traders is not a result of the amount of money he stole, but the bizarre events that followed his arrest and continued throughout his ...
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When an earthquake shook Kobe, Japan in 1995, it also broke open an ongoing scandal within the walls of Barings Bank. At the epicenter of the financial earthquake was Nick Leeson, a derivatives ...
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Learn the legwork involved in finding out whether your investment can weather a storm.
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These "rogue traders" are famous for their billion-dollar mistakes.
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A sense of mystery still surrounds Yasuo Hamanaka, a.k.a. Mr. Copper, and the magnitude of his losses. From his perch at the head of Sumitomo's metal trading division, Hamanaka controlled 5% ...
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Running financial analysis on a company or industry is a key skill every investor must learn and understand how to undertake without which an ineffective financial report and investment recommendation ...
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We go over the concepts behind the excitement over the most important figure in the stock market.
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Although a dividend reduction is generally viewed as a signal to sell, the decision is not as clear-cut as if the dividend were to be eliminated altogether, which would be an unequivocal sell ...