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Reuters
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said on Thursday the city will save about $22 million from the termination of $1.4 billion of short-term debt programs as it looks to cut costs in the next budget.
The mayor plans to give a speech in late July or early August on Chicago’s financial challenges, including the size of the fiscal 2020 budget deficit.
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CFA Society Chicago
July 9, 2019
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
University Club of Chicago
76 E. Monroe Street
Join on us on July 9th at the University Club as she discusses Cowen's views on cannabis. Vivien Azer’s coverage of the tobacco and cannabis sectors earned her industry accolades including a spot on Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team on several occasions.
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CFA Society Chicago
July 15, 2019
5-6:30 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
CFA Society Chicago invites you to join us along with members from Kaplan Schweser to find out the best way to prepare for the CFA exam. Those in attendance will have an opportunity to win a scholarship for a prep-course study package awarded by Kaplan Schweser. If you are trying to determine the best study plan for you, this is an event you don’t want to miss!
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CFA Chicago Society
July 17, 2019
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
Historical patterns leveraging the presidential cycle and seasonality point to the potential for double-digit gains for the S&P 500 during 2019, supported by the combination of EPS growth and inflationary expectations.
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CFA Society Chicago
July 30, 2019
4-6 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
Emotional intelligence (EI) is what sets apart good from the great leaders and managers.
For example, according to the Harvard Business Review, 90% of what moves people up the ladder when IQ and technical skills are similar is emotional intelligence. And TalentSmart found that 90% of top performers are high in EI, while just 20% of the bottom performers are high in it. This program has been designed to:
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
There are too few women making venture capital (VC) investment decisions and too few women receiving VC investments. As a result, various worthwhile initiatives have sought to increase the presence of women on both sides of the VC equation, especially among those receiving VC funds. But these programs are sometimes criticized for giving money to ventures that actually have very few women associated with them in any impactful way.
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Chicago Tribune
As it enters its 11th year, America's economic expansion is now the longest on record — a streak that has shrunk unemployment, swelled household wealth, revived the housing market and helped fuel an explosive rise in the stock market.
Yet even after a full decade of uninterrupted economic growth, the richest Americans now hold a greater share of the nation's wealth than they did before the Great Recession began in 2007.
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Forbes
Markets are notoriously changeable, just like the weather. There are hundreds of types of investments (asset classes) that move somewhat independently of other asset classes. These movements cannot necessarily be predicted. Sometimes there is no logical trigger that makes (example) US mid-cap stocks appreciate more than many other asset classes (or decline less than other asset classes in bad markets).
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Hedgeweek
Ideally, these standards should benefit hedge fund managers by leveling the playing field on which they compete, as well as investors, by providing consistent information that will enhance their investment decision making process. It is extremely important that the CFA Institute achieves both objectives in order to have broad adoption across the industry. Now is the time for the hedge fund industry to speak up.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel starts cashing in on his connections this month as the newest investment banker in town, likely to the distress of his dealmaking rivals.
Emanuel is opening the Chicago office of New York-based Centerview Partners, the most successful billion-dollar-deal boutique in America last year.
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Bloomberg
It is clearer than ever that the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 made high tax states less competitive with low tax states. But instead of using this moment to reflect on how taxes influence behavior, politicians in places such as Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Illinois are inexplicably doubling-down by threatening to raise taxes on their citizens even more.
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Crain's Chicago Business
New York-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Trust joined the Chicago sector today, opening a Loop office.
Gemini intends the new office as an “engineering hub,” supporting professional trading and custody as well as new product lines, according to a statement.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, both 37, founded the company in 2014.
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U.S. News & World Report
There's no shortage of methodologies out there for people who want to invest or trade in the markets.
Some methods call for buying and selling according to a set of technical signals. Others use fundamentals, such as sales and earnings growth, as the buy-sell triggers.
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Bloomberg
The Winklevoss twins have seen their wealth more than double since January, thanks to the frenzied rally of Bitcoin, which surged as much as 22% Wednesday.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’s combined net worth — consisting mainly of Bitcoin and crypto assets — climbed to $1.45 billion, the highest since March of 2018, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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