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...Skadden has hired John Kocoras, former first assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, as a partner in its litigation group, based in Chicago....
...Soon afterwards, two other unorthodox financiers — Rex Sinquefield at American National Bank of Chicago and Dean LeBaron of Batterymarch — launched the first S&P 500 index funds....
...Redditors approach the community like a game, with suspicion of established systems, bravado and irreverent humour, according to Adrienne Massanari, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...These and other closures, particularly those at bigger exchanges, have reduced liquidity in complex options transactions involving the Vix volatility index or the S&P 500 index of US stocks, said Anthony...
...told an Illinois trucking conference last month....
...William Taft, former president and chief justice, described the US judiciary in general as “high-priest[s] in the temple of justice”....
...It was a perfect match: the Chicago soccer moms had their liquidity, and Ebay a growing market....
...His clipped English accent was perfected at Winchester College boys’ school and belies the fact he was born in Chicago to Midwestern parents....
...The early rebellion John McQuown grew up on his family’s farm in rural Illinois, far from the bustle of Wall Street, and was the first in his family to get a higher education, graduating with a degree in...
...This has led Dorothy Lund, a law lecturer at the University of Chicago, to suggest that passive funds should be restricted from participating at company votes....
...One of the hairier ABS deals came from Honor Finance of Evanston, Illinois, which is majority-owned by CIVC Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm....
...Wall Street’s fastest trading firms are invoking the spirit of Greeley as they build Go West, a trail of wireless towers, fibre-optic lines and submarine cables linking Chicago, the Pacific coast and Tokyo...
...It sees global growth only in the sub-$400 handset market. 2011 Samsung, South Korean tech trendspotter 2012 Mahindra & Mahindra of India overtook John Deere of Illinois in 2012 to become the world’s...
...Its persistent budget gridlock prompted S&P and Moody’s to downgrade the state’s debt on Thursday, to one level above junk....
...Through his trades, Mr Sarao allegedly made $40m in illegal profits from trading so-called e-mini S&P 500 futures contracts between 2010 and 2014....
...According to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, pension funds and other big institutions now account for only 43.1 per cent of hedge funds’ assets, from 47 per cent three years ago....
...Wall Street’s off-exchange derivatives industry and CME are wary partners....
...The DoJ alleges in a criminal complaint that Mr Sarao used an automated trading program to manipulate the market for S&P 500 futures contracts — known as E-Minis — on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the...
...Shares of the Chicago, Illinois-based company gained more than 6 per cent to $66.32....
...A) Illinois B) California C) New Jersey D) Connecticut E) New York D) Connecticut 22....
...Wall Street analysts said the scale of the rise in profit margins was the biggest surprise....
...She wears the Illinois state tartan. “You’re clearly not Scottish,” they say....
...There’s a fearsome battle brewing in Chicago....
...Trading in the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s S&P 500 Index options contracts reached an all-time high of nearly 2.3m contracts....
...Shire turned down a $46 billion bid from Chicago-based AbbVie last week. But people briefed on the matter said AbbVie was likely to come back with a higher offer....
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