Like many "cybersquatters" large and small, his aim now is to give away his day job and take up trading domain names as a business.
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With prime brokerage (a business that caters to the trading and business needs of hedge funds) as a primary revenue source for the company, it's unclear just how much business Bear Stearns has lost in the last few days.
Marks and Spencer sales rose slightly in the first three months of 2013, as good trading from its food business offset a fall in clothing sales.
The trading business put up a particularly poor show as revenues dipped by 25% in Q4 2012 compared to Q3 2012.
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The positions taken were within the normal business flow of a large global equity trading house as part of a properly hedged portfolio.
In an interim statement, the Edinburgh-based company said ground handling volumes at Menzies Aviation were up 2.7% as underlying business continued "to perform well in a tough trading environment".
Funny as it may seem now, the egg business was a bridge into the trading world.
Jaipuria has business in his genes, hailing as he does from a marwari trading family with roots in Rajasthan.
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Mr. CORONA: You know, I started it out at Drexel-Burner, which is no longer in business, on a trading floor, and I was there for the 87 crash as a young kid.
Business services, such as accountancy and legal advice, also suffered a drop in trading, but not as much as feared.
But Spear held a hidden gem: It had built a computerized trading platform known as RediPlus, and Goldman built this into the centerpiece of its electronic trading business.
For an effective compliance policy covering mobiles, companies have to require that all business calls be made on a company mobile, just as U.S. trading firms now typically ban the use of mobile phones on trading floors, because they are not covered by the recording that landlines are.
Some worry that under Mr Esteves, who made his name as a star trader, the firm's centre of gravity might shift towards trading rather than client-driven business.
Dubai welcomes business from China to set up here and take advantage of its role as a regional trading and commercial hub, His Excellency Mohammed Al Shaibani, CEO of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, said at press conference ahead of the opening of the Forbes Global CEO Conference today.
This Federal Express disciple, who became chief executive of E-Trade in March 1996 (just as it was launching its online trading portal), insists the firm has moved beyond the online brokerage business to a new battlefront: unified online finance.
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