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Will the Tactical Guys Blow Up the Market on Monday?

How much money is really run tactically these days? Are the majority of market-moving managers (big guys with big positions) really that nimble? Or do they most sit tight and just keep buying their favorite stocks at any price, no matter what happens?

FT's Lunch with George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)

Business people and Wall Street guys are obsessed with the smash hit HBO series Game of Thrones.  Everyone’s talking about it all the time, it seems. Yesterday I tweeted that Mitt Romney is a Lannister and a hundred people chirped back at me that this is a good thing because it means he “always pays…

Boston Fed: Let's Twist Again, Like We Did Last Summer

Continuing so-called Operation Twist beyond this month would help the Fed meet its congressional mandate to ensure full employment, Rosengren said in an interview with Bloomberg News before a Labor Department report that unemployment in May rose to 8.2 percent.