Despite the Fed’s silence, the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to-be-announced (TBA) market may be indicating that a new round of MBS purchases is coming

5 things investors need to know about an inverted yield curve

Wall Street Prepares for the End of a Crucial Benchmark

UBS said Dorian could cost the insurance industry more than $25 billion if storm hit the coast of Florida.

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai Buying Brooklyn Nets And Barclays Center For Record $3.3 Billion

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          Theron Technology Solutions

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          Insight Global, Inc.

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          Morgan Stanley

Quantitative Research Analyst
          Citadel US

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          Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Investment Analyst
          Citadel

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          Chicago Mercantile Exchange

FPGA Engineer
          Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Data Analyst
          Northern Trust

Director, Credit Analyst covering Retail and Consumer Sectors
          Fitch Ratings

Lead Data Analyst
          E Trade Financial

Commodities Analyst
          Citadel US

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            September 9, 2019 Executives’ Club of Chicago | A Conversation with Dara Khosrowshahi, Chief Executive Officer, Uber

            September 9, 2019 Chicago Booth | Entrepreneurial Moon Shot- Major Industry Transformation Case Study

            September 10, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | Current drivers of the global M&A market and perspectives on how it may evolve going forward

            September 17, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | The changing investment landscape and how investment platforms and interfaces need to evolve

            September 19, 2019 Chicago Booth | US-China Trade War: Is this the dawn of a second cold war?

            September 19, 2019 Chicago Booth | Trade Wars, Tariffs, and US Customs: The Legal Perspective

            September 24, 2019 Executives’ Club of Chicago | International Business Forum: Trade, Tariffs, & Transactions: What’s Next for Illinois Business?

Central banks around the world are surprising markets with aggressive rate cuts: Here’s why

We further unpack below why the 7-per-dollar level is so significant, how a weaker yuan aids China, and why traders have become so transfixed by the foreign currency

Where’s the Next Recruiting War in Asset Management? ESG

With the back-to-school shopping season and winter holidays looming, most retailers planning to shut stores this year have already shuffled through those announcements so they can shift their focus toward the industry’s busiest times.

Gold has solid support coming in from three directions — U.S.-China trade tensions, global central bank easing, and technical price levels.

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          Theron Technology Solutions

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          Insight Global, Inc.

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          E Trade Financial

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          Citadel US

QA Analyst III
          Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Investment Analyst
          Citadel

DATA-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ANALYST
          Citi

FPGA Engineer
          Two Sigma Investments, LLC

Senior Pricing Analyst / Manager – Derivatives & Cash Markets
          Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Director, Credit Analyst covering Retail and Consumer Sectors
          Fitch Ratings

Client Onboarding Counsel
          Interactive Brokers

Commodities Analyst
          Citadel US

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            August 15, 2019 Chicago Booth | China, Huawei and the US Business Community: A Booth CEO Weighs In!

            August 20, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | August Investment Exchange Forum

            August 22, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | August Monthly Happy Hour

            August 28, 2019 The Executives’ Club of Chicago | Leading a High Performance Team

            September 9, 2019 Chicago Booth | Entrepreneurial Moon Shot- Major Industry Transformation Case Study

            September 24, 2019 Executives’ Club of Chicago | International Business Forum: Trade, Tariffs, & Transactions: What’s Next for Illinois Business?

n the next credit downturn, could leveraged loans pose systemic risk in the way subprime mortgages did during the last crisis, as some commentators have warned?

Facebook is launching a subsidiary company also called Calibra that handles its crypto dealings and protects users’ privacy by never mingling your Libra payments with your Facebook data so it can’t be used for ad targeting.

ByteDance, the Beijing-based startup behind popular short video platform TikTok, has amassed more than one billion monthly active users across its apps.

Lee Iacocca, the auto-industry titan who saved Chrysler from bankruptcy and launched the Ford Mustang, has died. Here’s a look at his incredible life and career

Topshop is closing all US stores

Hiring slowed sharply in May, as companies in industries hardest hit by President Trump’s escalating trade war hesitated to bring on new employees.

Fed watchers say an unexpectedly weak reading on the U.S. jobs market in May makes it increasingly likely that the central bank will lower rates this year

CVS And Walgreens Are On Different Paths To In-Store Healthcare

28-Year-Old Crypto Founder Pays Record $4.6 Million For Lunch With Warren Buffett

India’s marathon national election reaches the finish line

Markets Tumble As China Unveils Retaliatory Tariffs, May Dump “Some Treasuries”

Tough questions mix with requests for life advice as Warren Buffett answers to his shareholders

Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is considering an initial public offering of its $100 billion Vision Fund

“But China is not afraid, nor are the Chinese people,” adding that “China needs a cooperative agreement with equality and dignity.”

Read the memo Uber’s CEO sent to employees after its disappointing IPO

4 Unexpected Trade War Stocks That Will Benefit From an End to Tariffs

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Under tighter capital requirements, big banks have been focusing more on large trading clients and less on providing cheap credit to smaller, more aggressive hedge funds.

Here is every previous government shutdown, why they happened and how they ended.

Last week, Apple issued its first revenue warning in nearly 12 years, citing poor Chinese demand, sending its shares down 10 percent, their biggest intra-day fall in six years.

After Divorce, Jeff Bezos May No Longer Be the World’s Richest Man

24 must-read books that Bill Gates recommended in 2018

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          Insight Global, Inc.

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          ABN AMRO US

US Business Management Support
          UBS

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          Goldman Sachs USA

Investment Analyst
          Citadel

Head of High-Frequency Proprietary Trading
          Winston fox

Senior Regulatory Data Scientist
          CME Group

Associate Financial Consultant
          Fidelity Investments-US

Mutual Fund Client Support Analyst/Associate
          Goldman Sachs USA

Investment Counselor
          Citi

Administrator Oversight -Analyst/Associate
          Goldman Sachs USA

Upcoming Events

            January 15, 2019 The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | China’s Foreign Policy in the Xi Jinping Era

            January 16, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | Economic Outlook and Policies

            January 17, 2019  Chicago Booth | Nobel Prize Winner Economic Sciences, Professor Roger Myerson, The Bankers’ New Clothes

            January 23, 2019 Executives’ Club of Chicago | Leveraging People, Processes and Systems

            January 24, 2019 CFA Society of Chicago Event | January Informal Monthly Happy Hour 

            January 30, 2019 The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | China and the US: A Lifetime in a Defining Era

February 19, 2019 CFAA Event | Chinese New Year Reception (More details coming)