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• A trading startup backed by George Soros and Peter Thiel just hit the reboot button

  31-07-2016 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TruMid, the startup backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and investor George Soros, has revamped its trading platform as it seeks a new approach to electronic bond trading.
  The firm rolled out its new system late last month and says it's already led to more activity than the first iteration.
  "We were clear that there was room for improvement, and room to deliver an even better product," TruMid president Mike Sobel told Business Insider. "We think we've made the platform easy to use and high
  
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• Billionaire investor Steve Cohen has a new mantra, and this is the guy enforcing it

  31-07-2016 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Cohen has a new mantra: better to be safe than sorry.
  Cohen's Point72 Asset Management is taking extra precautions to guard against wrongdoing after Cohen's predecessor hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, was shut down for insider trading.
  Vincent "Vinny" Tortorella, a cheery Italian-American and former federal prosecutor, is the man charged with the task, having taken over as head of Point72's compliance and surveillance unit in 2014.
  Cohen has given Tortorella a blank check to do whatever
  
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• Tesla has to overcome a major problem for its massive new Gigafactory to succeed (TSLA)

  31-07-2016 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tesla held a grand opening for its $5 billion Gigafactory in Nevada last week.
  This massive facility, which will have the largest footprint of any building in the world when complete, is critical to achieving CEO Elon Musk's lofty goal of building 500,000 vehicles annually by 2018.
  That many cars will require more lithium-ion batteries than are currently available.
  By all recent accounts, Gigafactory 1 is an impressive, huge, still-under-construction space filled with industrial robots and Tesla
  
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• 'Jason Bourne' returns to dominate the weekend box office

  31-07-2016 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's been nine years since we last saw Matt Damon in the Bourne franchise, and it seems audiences are happy to see him back.
  The latest movie in the series of films based on the Robert Ludlum books, "Jason Bourne," took in an estimated $60 million over the weekend to top this weekend's box office, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
  Though a respectable figure for an action film catered to the over-30 crowd, the fifth film in the franchise isn't going to have the biggest opening ever.
  That dist
  
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• A startup backed by the hero of 'The Big Short' is attempting to bring Wall Street to Main Street

  31-07-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eight years after the subprime crisis, news of a startup bringing institutional real-estate exposure to individual investors may be met with some skepticism.
  But Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who foresaw the housing market's nosedive and was immortalized in the movie "The Big Short," clearly doesn't think so.
  He was an early investor in a new real-estate peer-to-peer lending platform called PeerStreet.
  PeerStreet, cofounded by Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, is applying the peer-to-peer l
  
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• Leon Cooperman published an epic 48-page note to investors explaining why everything is fine

  31-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors released a 48-page investment outlook last week.
  And for all the fiddling over post-Brexit markets and the risks of a Chinese currency devaluation, Omega doesn't think there's much to worry about, according to the note, which was co-written by Omega's vice chairman, Steve Einhorn.
  The bulk of Omega's assets are invested in US equities. As of year-end 2015, the New York hedge fund managed about $6.7 billion, a decrease of about a quarter from the year before, accor
  
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• It's time to get worried about the US economy — according to the people who know best

  31-07-2016 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UPS was just the icing on the cake. 
  Capping off a week of gloomy commentary from American companies, the package-delivery giant — which arguably has a unique view into the global economy — said it too sees "head winds" in the second half of the year.Like others that warned about a slowdown, UPS reported on-target earnings and kept its forecasts unchanged. But that's because of "technology and productivity investments" that are helping it manage through.
  Its
  
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• Stonor: Senior Art Director - Integrated Agency

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £40000 - £50000 per annum:Stonor:
  Opportunity for incredibly creative and conceptual Senior Art Director to join a leading integrated marketing agency.
  Hertfordshire
  
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• Stonor: Retail Marketing Consultant - Automotive

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £35000 - £45000 per annum + pension, Car and bonus:Stonor:
  Retail Marketing Consultant - Automotive - Northern EnglandThis is an unusual position and a new one for our client.They specialise in providing integrated marketing services to a range of clients, mainly within the automotive sector. The agency themselv
  London, North London
  
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• Stonor: Recruitment Consultant

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £20,000 - OTE £40,000:Stonor:
  Trainee recruiters required to join a successful marketing recruitment agency in Oxfordshire.
  Thame, Oxfordshire
  
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• Stonor Marketing: ACCOUNT HANDLERS - WANTED - £25K TO £40K

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £25000 - £40000 per annum + benefits:Stonor Marketing:
  ACCOUNT HANDLERS - WANTED - £25K TO £40K
  South East England
  
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• Reuben Sinclair: Senior Account Manager - Creative Agency

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits:Reuben Sinclair:
  Company:Our client, a leading creative and content marketing agency are looking for an ambitious Senior Account Manager to join their growing London team. This leading creative content agency drive engagement through PR, social, video and targeted adverti
  London
  
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• Reuben Sinclair: Business Development Consultant - Agency

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits:Reuben Sinclair:
  Our client, a leading creative and content marketing agency are looking for an ambitious Business Development Manager to join their growing London team. Excellent opportunity for someone with no experience to move into creative sector...
  London
  
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• Regan & Dean Recruitment Limited: Communications and Events Manager - (membership organisation)

  31-07-2016 02:00
  
  £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus + benefits:Regan & Dean Recruitment Limited:
  Excellent opportunity to join this unique membership organisation and deliver their communications and events programme to prestigious membership within the property and modern architecture sector.
  London
  
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