Sentences with phrase «of bond traders»

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

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It reminded me of the «blowing your customers up» mentality in perhaps one of the best business books ever written — Liar's Poker — where bond traders celebrated when they bankrupted their first customer.

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

But things have suddenly changed, and traders in bond and stock markets have realized Trump may have a hard time delivering on any part of his agenda.

While I don't presume to read traders» (or trading computers») minds (see Barry ritholtz» note this morning about ex post facto rationalizations), generally speaking there is concern that the «taper» of long term bond purchases will cause bond yields (the percent of interest paid on them) to rise.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

Still, combine the indications of the short - term bond market with today's 5 % GDP news and you get the sense that stock traders betting on low interest rates for longer periods of time may soon have to bail out.

After eight years of being a bond trader, including a stint at Fidelity, he was laid off in December 2008.

For a market that is dominated by the Bank of Japan, looking to government bond futures makes more sense for traders.

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He did so because he wants to dissuade bond and currency traders of the notion that Canada is a mirror of what is happening the American economy.

And that's just the latest event that has bond traders feeling uncertain following a similar action from the Bank of Japan, which recently trimmed its bond buying.

Over the past several months, debt traders have been growing increasingly wary of this type of monetary tightening by global central banks, which have been the biggest buyers of bonds for years.

That trader waits all day hoping to find a seller of those bonds.

This group of traders isn't concerned about the absolute price of the bonds, because they didn't own them before, and won't own them again in a few minutes (slight exaggeration).

The trader, doesn't want to buy the bonds, but also doesn't want to lose control of the situation, so they say they would buy pay 98.5 for a couple.

The cult favorite started in Washington, DC, in 1986 when former bond trader Jerry Murrell and his family opened a burger joint — named after Murrell and his four sons — with the goal of cooking hamburgers and fries using the best quality ingredients.

Zoe Cruz, our highest - ranking newcomer, has made her mark with some of the toughest critics on Wall Street: her fellow bond traders.

Every bond trader I know, and I know a lot of them, are telling me the signal from fixed income is recession.

Bond traders also keep an eye on the VIX, a measure of stock - market volatility, since it has historically been highly correlated to the performance of stocks: rising when stocks sell off and falling when stocks rally.

Cowen is a leading trader of Reg D private placements as well as project finance bonds.

Traders have pulled more than $ 1.8 billion from two junk - focused ETFs just in the past week: the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond -LRB-- $ 1.06 billion, most of any ETF) and the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond -LRB--765.4 million, the second most), while also redeeming $ 577.4 million (the fourth most) from the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Bond ETF, according to FactSet and ETF.com.

Former Ontario Securities Commission chairman David Brown and others said this year that avoiding another financial crisis required a powerful entity that was accountable for the health of the entire financial system, not simply one aspect of it, such as lenders or bond and stock traders.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Haverland was a portfolio manager, corporate bond analyst and trader at Jefferson Pilot Financial (now part of Lincoln Financial) in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he managed $ 2.6 billion in fixed income assets.

She's a former bond trader with a nuanced and practical view of the space but an optimistic outlook for the implications and possible deployments of blockchain tech.

Finally, some brokerages ensure the safety of traders» funds through fidelity bonds placed with insurance companies.

(And yes, that includes the impact of government QE measures — bond traders can still front run these measures, and have done so).

In other words bond traders look at the yield of a bond in terms of where it is trading vs. treasuries.

«We are coming from an abnormal period where a tremendous amount of wealth was created largely by selling assets back and forth,» said Mohamed A. El - Erian, chief executive of Pimco, one of the country's largest bond traders, and the former manager of Harvard's endowment.

It takes place in the rarefied world of the bond market where institutional traders like banks and pension plans operate.

Brian O'Connell is a former Wall Street bond trader and author of the best - selling books, such as The 401k Millionaire.

Click here to download our Commitment of Traders (equity indices and bonds) update for the same week.

Each commodity exchange has a clearinghouse that holds margin in the form of a performance bond in a separate account for each trader.

In addition to over 25 years of portfolio management and equity research experience with Leith Wheeler, Bill spent five years as trader of the firm's bond portfolios.

By the close of the week on Friday, October 16th, traders were anxious and began to move funds from stocks to bonds.

Join Saxo bank fixed income specialist Althea Spinozzi in her latest webinar as she covers the 3 % line in the sand, the increasing prominence of Chinese government debt in the fixed income space, and more issues facing bond traders and investors.

By CountingPips.com — Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email 10 - Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large bond speculators increased their bearish net positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.

By CountingPips.com — Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email 10 - Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large bond speculators sharply increased their bearish net positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.

It helps to be a worldclass economist - historian, to have been a trader and Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert when the firm was the junk bond king of Wall Street, to have lived in Hong Kong for a quarter of a century, and to have a contact book crammed with the home numbers of many of the movers and shakers in the financial world.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's Commitment of Traders Report, followed by reports Monday on Chinese PMI, German CPI and Retail Sales, US Personal Income, Personal Spending, PCE, Chicago PMI, Pending Home Sales, and the Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Index for near term direction.

Therefore, at times, the bond traders are in conflict with the expectations of the Federal Reserve.

You're more likely to be considered a trader if you trade options or futures contracts instead of stocks, bonds, ETFs, or mutual funds.

Based on what we're seeing in the benchmark 10 - year bond yield, bond traders are showing signs of shifting into a more defensive posture.

Zach Emig, 40, a bond trader, is concentrating on health care, getting money out of politics and holding Big Pharma accountable.

Wall Street investment bank Jefferies has recently sidelined a seven - year junk bond veteran to bring in a top trader from Citigroup — and has caused a split among some of...

A former bond trader, Mr. Bloomberg chose to deliver the final major speech of his mayoralty in Manhattan, to the Economic Club of New York, a collective of Wall Street dignitaries that also hosts events with Federal Reserve bankers.

«Speculative currency traders are unwinding in the wake of what the markets considered a not - well - thought - of bond sale — it's unsettling investors,» a commercial bank currency dealer told Reuters.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

Thus I was delighted to discover that Duffy's maiden literary voyage has steered clear of the silly and sordid clichés of so - called «chick lit,» and instead delivers a delectable tale of a plucky female bond trader whose Wall Street escapades just happen to coincide with the economic Armageddon of 2008.

At Holyoke there were bond analysts and lawyers and day traders and city managers and school administrators, all of them caught with their hands in the till and nothing at all like me, an eighteen - year - old accidental arsonist and...