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Really? Billionaire trader claims babies kill a woman’s success in trading
New York: Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is getting slammed after talking about “baby’s lips on a girl’s bosom” as a career-stunting “killer” for female Wall Street traders. Jones, the founder of Tudor Investment Corp, a $13 billion hedge-fund firm based in Connecticut made the controversial comments last month at #Babies #Billionaire #Hedge fund #Investing #Macro Trading #Paul Tudor Jones #ThatsJustWrong #Trading #Women
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IPL spot-fixing Live: Meiyappan in court today, Srinivasan says he’s not going
08: 30 am: Meiyappan to be produced before court, Srinivasan says he won't go Meiyappan, who was dramatically arrested last night is to be produced before a Mumbai court today where the police is likely to seek his custody in order to interrogate him with Vindu Dara Singh. However, father-in-law and BCCI #Ajit Chandilia #Ankit Chavan #Cricket #IPL #IPL 2013 #Rajasthan Royals #Sports #Spot fixing #Sreesanth
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Barack Obama learns the Manmohan Singh way of war
Even as the citizens of Athens began gathering a massive expeditionary force to storm the port of Syracuse in 415BCE, one lone voice counselled caution. “The best way to make ourselves feared by the Greeks in Sicily”, the great chronicler Thucydides has Nicias saying in his History of the Peloponnesian Wars, #Barack Obama #India #InMyOpinion #Manmohan Singh #US #World
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French, Niger troops kill Islamists holding out at Niger base
NIAMEY (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists involved in a twin attack on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger claimed by the mastermind of January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a one-eyed veteran of al Qaeda's
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Foreign defence officials visit Russian military base
Moscow, May 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Members of foreign delegations attending an international conference on European security visited a military base near Moscow that has a motorized infantry division. Defence officials and military experts from Armenia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the US and Zimbabwe were shown a #NewsTracker
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Syria opposition unity talks face spectre of collapse
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on Friday. The failure of the Syrian National Coalition to
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NSE to implement transaction tax cut as of June 1
Reuters Market Eye - The National Stock Exchange will reduce the securities transaction tax (STT) on equity futures to 0.01 percent from 0.017 percent from June 1, NSE said in a statement. Purchases of a unit in an equity-oriented fund will not attract any STT compared to 0.1 percent earlier, while
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North Korea’s bid to return to n-talks welcomed by Moscow
Moscow, May 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia regards as a "positive development" reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, a Russian diplomat said. China's Xinhua news agency and South Korea's Yonhap reported Friday that Choe Ryong Hae, a special envoy for #NewsTracker
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Italy to scrap public funding of political parties
Rome, May 25 (IANS/AKI) The Italian government has agreed to abolish public funding of political parties, Prime Minister Enrico Letta announced. "In the cabinet, we reached an agreement to abolish public funding of the parties," Letta wrote on his account in the micro-blogging website Twitter, following a cabinet meeting Friday. He said #NewsTracker
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Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze. The rioting - set off earlier this month by the