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• Here are the most popular baby names in the US

  20-05-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Noah and Emma are extremely popular names for newborns.
  Every year around Mother's Day, the Social Security Administration publishes statistics on the popularity of baby names for the previous year, based on their comprehensive records of births in the US.
  We took a look at how the popularity of the 10 most common boys and girls names in 2016 has changed over the last decade.
  For boys, the most common name, Noah, has steadily gained in popularity since 2007, while the second-
  
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• HEDGE FUND READING LIST: Hundreds of investors say these 10 finance books are must-reads

  20-05-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SumZero, a social network for buyside investors, asked its members to share their favorite investment books in their user profiles.
  The list is based on 1,120 responses, and ranked from least to most recommended. You can consider it a hedge fund reading list.
  The books don't come cheap though. A used copy of the most recommended book retails for more than $900. 
  Here they are:
  "The Essays of Warren Buffett" by Lawrence Cunningham
  "As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularit
  
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• This congressional accounting trick is part of the reason Washington is so divided

  20-05-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the major unanswered questions regarding President Trump's tax-reform proposal is: How much will it cost?
  In theory the government has a way to answer that, but surprisingly there's no standard methodology and politicians can tweak the results to suit their agendas.
  It's called dynamic scoring.
  It's the practice of projecting the financial effects that a policy will have on the budget while taking into account different factors such as business and consumer behavior.
  Dynamic scoring can
  
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• Investors have found one group of winners from the retail apocalypse

  20-05-2017 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Industrial real estate is emerging as a winner of the crisis in brick-and-mortar retail.
  With more people choosing to buy online and have their purchases delivered to them, there's been a surge in demand for storage facilities in large distribution markets, says Jay Leupp, a portfolio manager and analyst on Lazard's global real-estate securities team.
  This bodes well for real-estate investment trusts, or REITs, that own or fund industrial properties for profit.
  "It is one of the asset classes du
  
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• A $500 billion investor developed 'cutting edge' technology, and now it's sharing it with rivals

  20-05-2017 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Picture this: you're trying to buy a used car, and you're having difficulty.
  There are many, many more cars out there now than there were a few years ago. The old go-to used-car dealers have smaller lots and less inventory, and they have been replaced by online dealerships.
  But it's a hassle to compare all of those at once.
  That's pretty much the position bond investors find themselves in right now. A bunch of electronic platforms have popped up to make up for this, but they're all over the
  
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• It's official: SoftBank's tech fund becomes world's biggest with $93 billion to invest

  20-05-2017 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SoftBank's Vision Fund is officially the world's biggest private equity fund after it announced on Saturday that it had closed $93 billion.
  The extra $7 billion, bringing the fund's total to $100 billion, is expected to close in the next six months, SoftBank said in its announcement on Saturday.
  It's a colossal amount of capital collected to invest in the next wave of technology companies, and it's size and focus has attracted backers like Apple and Qualcomm as a result. The billions invest
  
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• There's an exclusive, invite-only restaurant inside the New York Stock Exchange where only listed companies and employees can eat

  20-05-2017 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Upstairs at the New York Stock Exchange, above the hustle and bustle of the famous trading floor, sits a restaurant called 1792.
  To be granted permission to dine at 1792, you must be an employee of the NYSE, an invited client, or part of a listed company. 1792 is an ode to the exchange's history, decorated with a miniature grand piano and a large mural depicting the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement, which created the NYSE.Originally, the only restaurant inside the exchange was The L
  
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• Here's how rich you'd be if you invested $1,000 in Amazon when it first went public (AMZN)

  20-05-2017 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the Nasdaq hovered at new highs on Monday, Amazon was marking a milestone of its own.
  The company went public exactly 20 years ago as an unprofitable online bookstore that was just three years old.
  Few investors could have foreseen that it would gain about 50,000% in the two decades after its initial public offering. One thousand dollars invested at the closing price on Amazon's IPO day would be worth over $491,000 on Monday, based on the stock's price in early trading.That kind of return
  
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• A new player in Wall Street trading has made a key hire

  20-05-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mizuho, the Japanese bank with big ambitions in Wall Street trading, has made a key hire.
  The bank has hired Massimo Tassan-Solet, a former Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank executive, as head of derivatives trading. He will report to Thomas Hartnett, head of fixed income sales and trading, and play a key role in the build out of Mizuho's derivatives platform. 
  Tassan-Solet is a former head of US dollar interest rate options trading at Deutsche Bank, working with Hartnett at the Ger
  
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• Tesla's future is completely inhuman — and we shouldn't be surprised (TSLA)

  20-05-2017 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tesla has been on an epic run since the beginning of 2017.
  Its market cap, at around $50 billion, passed Ford's and now rivals General Motors. If all goes according to schedule, the Model 3 mass-market car will launch in about a month. 
  But not all is well in Tesla land. There's been chatter about a union-organizing effort at the company's Fremont, Calif. factory.
  And a Guardian report this week saw some Tesla workers characterize the plant as a dangerous place to work, and the pace that th
  
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• Barclays just named a new team at the top of a $2 billion business

  20-05-2017 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barclays has named a new leadership team for its capital markets unit. 
  The bank announced last week that Joe McGrath will be the new global head of banking, and that John Miller will become the head of global industry coverage banking. Jean-Francois "JF" Astier was named head of the global capital markets business. 
  In a memo to staff Tuesday, JF Astier announced a new management team for the unit he now runs."The Capital Markets franchise is incredibly strong, and we h
  
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• GOLDMAN SACHS: Traders fear these 15 nightmare stocks

  20-05-2017 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The US stock market may be fresh off its most boring stretch in more than five decades, but there are still stocks that give investors nightmares.
  In a client note Wednesday, the derivatives team at Goldman Sachs identified 15 companies that traders see as having elevated downside risk over the next 12 months.
  To single out the most feared stocks in its coverage universe, Goldman looked at two measures:
  Twelve-month implied volatility — the estimated price swing for a stock over the next y
  
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