20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on "We Did Not Touch On That At All": Lavrov Denies Trump Said "Comey Is A Nut Job"
"We Did Not Touch On That At All": Lavrov Denies Trump Said "Comey Is A Nut Job"
In the “he said, she said” world of unconfirmed, unsourced political intrigue, on Friday the US went to sleep with fresh news of the latest diplomatic snafu by Trump, when the NYT reported that during his president with the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov on May 10, Donald Trump said that Comey is a “nut job” and that his firing “eased pressure” from the ongoing Russian investigation.
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20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Zillow Is Trying to Reach Millennials
How Zillow Is Trying to Reach Millennials
Zililow Group Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) (NASDAQ: ZG) recently added another consumer-facing website to its tool kit with the express purpose of reaching out to millennials and first-time homebuyers. The site, RealEstate.com, has the company’s traditional advertising appeal for real estate professionals, the look and feel of Zillow home listings, and adds some new features that it hopes will appeal to first-time homebuyers.
20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Trump signs $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Trump signs $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia
President Trump signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia at a ceremony in Riyadh.
20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Anti-Trump Activists Find an Unlikely Weapon: Jamie Dimon’s Salary
Anti-Trump Activists Find an Unlikely Weapon: Jamie Dimon’s Salary
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says in his yearly letter to investors that regulations since 2008 have effectively resolved the Lehman Brothers dilemma. But are they impeding growth?
20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Simplest Reason Behind Collapsing Volatility: Hedge Funds Are Barely Trading
The Simplest Reason Behind Collapsing Volatility: Hedge Funds Are Barely Trading
“Gamma”, “vega“, CTAs, risk-parity, vol-neutral, central bank vol-suppression, the soaring popularity of (inverse) VIX ETFs , and so on: over the past year there have been countless attempts to explain why despite the surging political uncertainty in recent years, and especially since the US election…
20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Next Steps after Building Strategy Pipeline – Advice for Getting Hired
Next Steps after Building Strategy Pipeline – Advice for Getting Hired
Hi elitetrader,
I have coded a reliable and sufficiently realistic vectorized backtesting script. It is mostly based on quantstrat and related packages in R. I have tried to implement methods to avoid overfitting based on techniques written in papers that most of you might know. I am testing intraday (mid-frequency) strategies on several asset classes and trade the ones I like the results.
I am a fresh graduate from industrial engineering and want to get into quant trading firms. My…
20 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on A venture capitalist’s brush with death led him to focus on saving lives
A venture capitalist’s brush with death led him to focus on saving lives
George Zachary lost his interest in web start-ups after a health scare that exposed the problems in the medical system.