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American Express to cut 7,000 jobs, save $1.8 billion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express (AXP.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Thursday that it would cut 7,000 jobs, lower compensations, reduce operating costs and scale back investments to save $1.8 billion in 2009 as it struggles with the worst financial crisis in decades. Shares… Read more
University of Alberta Portal on Energy Research
Current Awareness Magazines & News Services Find Articles Dictionaries, Handbooks, Guides Company Information Industry Information Specific Types of Energy - Coal; Electricity; Natural Gas; Nuclear; Oil; Renewables Government/Regulatory Environment - Canada, United States, International… Read more
BHI Equity Valuation
BHI Baker Hughes stock is trading at an unusually low valuation. The shares have been badly hurt, along with the rest of the group and stocks in general, by fears of a global recession. So far, the impact on business of the credit crunch and sharply lower oil and gas prices has been marginal. The… Read more
Fabozzi Series: Mathematics of Financial Modeling
http://www.frankfabozzi.com/ mathematics_of_fin. Hosted by eSnips … Read more
Predicting Default Risk Using Merton’s Model – a Case Study…
Predicting Default Risk Using Merton’s Model – a Case Study in Chinese Stock This case study presents a simple spreadsheet-based version of Merton’s credit risk model (i.e., normally as KMV model) to predict default risk using a Chinese utility stock data from 2008 to 2009. Due to the limitation of… Read more
Stelmach's royalty gambit
CALGARY - What a difference a year makes when it comes to the Alberta government's new royalty framework. Since announcing the new plan a year ago, dramatic changes have taken place to alter both the political and economic landscape, heralding the best and worst of times for the oil and gas industry… Read more
Collateral Management and Appraisal
Collateral management is the key in a bank's credit risk management. Collateral valuation is also very important to loss given default modeling and risk recovery prediction. This slide presents the steps that need to be taken in collateral management. Access the Case… Read more
How to Measure Natural Gas Price Elasticity
In this case study, I’ll show you how to measure demand elasticities in the real world. We’ll develop a simple theory, write it down mathematically, find some data and crunch the numbers in Excel. At the end, I’ll hand over a spreadsheet with our own elasticity estimates for retail gasoline that replicate… Read more
Book of the Month Updated
Review Praise for Nerds On Wall Street "Leinweber leads his readers through a largely unexplored forest, turning over ordinary-looking rocks to reveal hidden colonies of peculiar creatures that feed on moldering mounds of numbers teeming with trailing zeroes. His book is absorbing, instructive… Read more
World Economy Calendar
Live Economic Calendar Powered by the Forex Trading Portal Forexpros.com… Read more
Merry Christmas!
QuantMinds.NET is already in its 2nd year journey.Thanks for all the supports and comments. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season with friends and family. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy & prosperous New Year!… Read more
Michael Bloomberg
Wall Street is not a group of rich fat cats. It's the average man on the street that you're talking about. … Read more
Gasoline Demand in Canada
Gasoline Demand in Canada View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. … Read more
Useful Tools
Tools Stat Transfer (Transformation cross different data format) PHStat (a Useful EXCEL add-in) … Read more
EXCEL & VBA
Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a proprietary spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and, except for Excel 2008 for Mac OS X, a macro programming language called VBA (… Read more
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Ben Graham
There are two elements of basic importance that the analyst should recognize in the behavior of stocks over the last six years. The first is the principle of continuity, and the other is what I would call the principle of deceptive selectivity in the stock market.… Read more
Following Bearstern, Lehman is shaken!
South Korean regulators said talks between government-owned Korea Development Bank and Lehman 7.79 , -6.36 , -44.9% ) have ended, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Korea Development Bank, known as KDB, has discussed a possible investment in Lehman in recent months but the failure to make headway has added… Read more
Behind Apple
When Steve Jobs got on the phone to answer Wall Street’s questions Tuesday afternoon during Apple’s earnings call, it was a signal that Apple knows investors are scared. The last time I recall the Apple CEO doing that was eight years ago, when Apple missed its numbers in one of the first signs that… Read more
Oil prices fall on profit-taking after huge rally
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices swung lower Tuesday, falling below $107 a barrel as traders cashed in profits a day after crude rocketed to its biggest one-day gain ever -- an epic rally apparently triggered in part by a technical fluke. It was crude's first down session in five days. A slightly stronger… Read more
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