[video] Mean Street: Some Advice for Goldman's Blankfein [4.4 min] (at MarketWatch)
Mean Street columnist Evan Newmark explains to Dennis Berman why he thinks the deck is stacked against Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, in part because the company has become a trading house. us.rd.yahoo.com |
BlackRock Debuts 3 Country ETFs (ETFguide)
SAN DIEGO - BlackRock introduced three ETFs that target stocks from specific countries like Ireland, Indonesia and the U.S. finance.yahoo.com |
Equities seen as new focus for banks
[at Financial Times] - Equity derivatives and increased leverage will be key to revenue growth for the global investment banks in the next couple of years, with the big US and Swiss groups best positioned to prosper, according to a JPMorgan report on the sector. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Credit Suisse commods team leaves to form own fund
[Reuters] - A senior Credit Suisse commodity executive and a team of traders have left the bank to set up a hedge fund backed by Blackstone Group, the latest shake-up resulting from tough financial reform. us.rd.yahoo.com |
iShares Semiconductor ETF Begins Trading on NASDAQ
[GlobeNewswire] - NEW YORK -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. today announced the iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund , the first unlevered exchange-traded fund based on the PHLX Semiconductor Sector IndexSM , will commence trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market on October 15. us.rd.yahoo.com |