He was apologising for a recent controversy over trading activity by Citigroup in London that had disrupted government-bond markets, including Italy's.
One-time contender David Sokol left Berkshire earlier this year amid an uproar over trading in shares of Lubrizol prior to its acquisition by Buffett.
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Handing over the trading business to his family (but retaining the plastics factory), he plowed ahead.
This frenzy that is now earnings season usually leaves investors over-trading their portfolios and likely underperforming in the long run.
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The danger is that the brusque treatment of Mr Corzine, and a perception that Goldman's investment-banking side has scored a victory over its trading arm, will unleash further internal conflict.
The 53-year-old founder of Galleon Group has told people close to him that he intends to testify at his own trial, the biggest legal showdown over insider trading in a generation.
Getco already casts a tall shadow over daily trading, by some estimates roughly 20% of stock market volume, so for it the move is symbolic of changes it has been trying to lead over the last decade.
Those qualities become irrelevant in the midst of a broad selloff, like the one that took gold prices down more than 13% over two trading days April 12 and 15 (see the latest big drop in the year-to-date chart below).
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One micro-cap company that has been generating a lot of press over last few days popped onto my screen after trading over forty times its normal share volume on Wednesday May 1.
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As this is the last trading day of the month, we may have to wait until next week before we get over the choppy trading that is often typical in the month of March.
Baker feels the current drop has been overdone, and, looking at the past decade, Baker noted that every time shares of AMR Corp. (nyse: AMR - news - people ), the parent of American Airlines, or Continental Airlines, pulls back 30% within a 31-day trading window, shares have consistently rallied over the next 180 trading days.
Regardless, Honda is still trading over 10 percent lower than it was six months ago.
Bigger names on Wall Street have been surgically removed from trading over the last year.
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Lehman has been trading over-the-counter this week between 13 cents and 18 cents, so it's not quite worthless.
Ms Stewart is under investigation over alleged insider trading, which has caused shares in her eponymous company to collapse.
Its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was so damaged by the horse-trading over earlier presidential candidates that he said he would resign.
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Each of the three plaintiffs suffered a (small) stock price decline over the four trading days after this decision was announced.
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In addition, Lunar New Year holidays in China are expected to make for relatively thin and cautious trading over the next few days.
EBay's sales for the last three months of 2012 topped analysts' forecasts as the online marketplace saw strong trading over the Christmas period.
Goldman Sachs (GS) has been the most troublesome of all now off over 20% trading just a few handles shy of its July 2010 low.
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But there are bumpy months ahead for Mr Zapatero, as Spain's two most fractious regions engage in rough horse-trading over their future relationship with Madrid.
Sideways trading over the next few days could provide the metal with the kind of base that would allow for a push toward year-to-date highs.
Analysts are still bullish on Starbucks, giving it an average price target that is 3 dollars over the the trading price now, according to Thompson Reuters.
European markets and the stock index futures are both lower ahead of the opening, and I am expecting more choppy trading over the coming weeks.
Retailers trading over the Internet can side-step all his rules, unnoticed (the Centre's fusty villa in a lush Frankfurt suburb is untouched by such newfangled stuff).
The purchase price represents a 40.0% premium over the average trading price of BCE's stock in 2007's first quarter, before privatization talk went public. (See " BCE Confirms Buyout Talks").
While its true that the over caffeinated junky trading E-mini future contracts more than likely subscribes to some sort of TA, it can also be used as a longer term view on bigger trends.
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