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A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has been convicted of stealing trade secrets and property in an effort to help a Chicago-based startup develop its own high-frequency securities trading operations.

As another year of jobs lost, homes foreclosed and budgets cut draws to a close in America, some of Wall Street heftiest fat cats are tipping the scales with their bonuses -- and pocketing your tax dollars at the same time. Sound unbelievable? Sadly, it's true, according to BusinessWeek. A recent...

The catastrophe bond market has fully recovered.

Sitting on a corporate board of directors has always been great work if you can get it, especially if it's with a company that's generous with board member compensation. These days, directors are feeling the heat to get some real work done.

In an odd twist of logic, it's looking like a good year to be in the catastrophe business. The business of insuring against catastrophes, that is. Industry insiders now expect that catastrophe bond activity will pass the $3 billion mark for 2009, which didn't really seem possible just did six...

Ask any investor, and he'll tell you the best place to enter the market is at the bottom. Buy low and sell high, right? The institutional crowd knows this lesson best, and after a rocky year in traditional financial markets, many are now drawn to what seems to be the market bottom for a more...