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Chicago Sun-Times
It’s been nearly 100 years since women fought for and achieved equality in the voting booth, paving the way for broader workers’ rights and civil liberties for all. But despite the passage of time, we still see incredible inequality for women on Wall Street.
In financial services, women are often undercompensated, underrepresented and underestimated.
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CFA Chicago
Dmitry Balyasny will be discussing the stock picking environment as we head into 2016. He will discuss the difference between taking market risk (Beta) and taking stock specific risk (Alpha). One focus has been generating good stock picking ideas on both the long and short sides of the portfolio. Part of this process involves identifying and attempting to hedge out key factors such as momentum, sub sectors, growth and value. Once you have stripped out the factor risk you are left with true stock specific risk, which can present good opportunities to focus on a company’s valuation and fundamentals.
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CFA Chicago
The recent developments in Greece highlight the ongoing political and economic crisis in the European Union. The euro-created to foster political unity and economic convergence-now appears to generate discord and uncertainty. Eurosceptic parties are gaining strength, while the United Kingdom is planning a referendum on its EU membership. Meanwhile, according to the Federal Reserve, the economic outlook for the U.S. continues to improve.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
For a number of years earlier in my career, I labored under a misconception about the word “satisficer.” In my mind, “satisficer” was a sociologist’s term for what happens when you cross a slacker with a well-adjusted productive person, yielding an employee who enjoys many of the benefits of productive normalcy without the pressure of actually having to produce much.
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CFA Chicago
CFA Society Chicago has worked with CFA Institute to develop a "live" prep program for the Claritas Investment Certificate. Our "live" classroom experience is taught by local industry professionals and Ph.Ds. The course will deliver the fundamentals of investing and it will help you prepare for the exam.
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Barron's
The worst may be over. U.S. stocks roared higher for much of last week, reversing Monday’s gut-wrenching losses and leaving major indexes with modest gains at week’s end. Investors concluded that a still-healthy U.S. economy is unlikely to be derailed by a slowdown in China, and took comfort in Thursday’s news that second-quarter gross domestic product grew by a revised 3.7 percent.
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Chicago Tribune
The fear that gripped financial markets this month is a stark one: That China's economy might be slipping into a decline that could persist for years.
But the world's second-largest economy isn't collapsing — certainly not yet, anyway. What's really in freefall is confidence in its leaders, once seen as wielding near-mythic power to keep their economy growing at a propulsive pace.
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The Washington Post
Let’s forget about China for a moment.
The turmoil that the world’s second-largest economy has incited in global financial markets has ramped up speculation over when the Federal Reserve will finally raise its target interest rate, with the odds of that happening when the central bank meets next month falling rapidly.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Illinois faces a bill backlog and cash shortage so severe, the state comptroller’s office juggles 5,000 calls a week from vendors asking for their money.
The competing demands for a piece of the state’s financial pie as it muddles through a budget crisis have kept the comptroller’s office from complying with a court order to pay for services for developmentally disabled adults on time, lawyers for the state told a federal judge.
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The Associated Press via Chicago Tribune
U.S. stocks are opening modestly lower, led by another decline in energy shares as the price of oil slips.
After two weeks of heavy turbulence, the market is on the verge of closing out its worst month in more than three years.
The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 103 points, or 0.6 percent, to 16,528 as of 9:35 a.m. ET Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 10 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,977. The Nasdaq composite declined 16 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4,812.
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Crain's Chicago Business
The ratings agency that has whacked the hell out of Chicago-area bonds finally has something nice to say. Sort of.
Moody's Investors Service, which has downgraded debt of the city, the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Park District to junk levels, affirmed its Baa1 rating for more than half a billion dollars in bonds at O'Hare International Airport being used to construct a huge rental-car facility and related connections to terminals and a nearby Metra stop.
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