This list of Wall Street commandments couldn't have come out at a worse time
In the words of hedge fund legend Leon Cooperman, "Never do anything in life if what you did appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times [and] you would be...
View ArticleThis is who high-powered Wall Streeters call when they don't know how to dress
There comes a time in every ambitious Wall Streeter's life when they have to look at their clients right in the face and gain their trust.So when those clients look back, they need to see someone who...
View ArticleWhat it's like to go fishing with the 'Warren Buffett of Bass'
Greg Myerson has been hailed as the "Warren Buffett" of striped bass fishing. The electrician from Connecticut holds the world-record for the largest striped bass ever caught. In August 2011, Myerson...
View ArticleCOOPERMAN: Four signs that we're entering a bear market
Leon Cooperman, legendary CEO of Omega Investment, divulged four points he uses to predict the onset of a bear economy during his appearance on Wall Street Week Sunday with hosts Anthony Scaramucci and...
View ArticleFORMER WALL STREET ANALYST: 'It could've easily been me'
In the past couple of years, there have been numerous suicides and unexpected deaths among financial-services employees. Banks have been trying to do more to improve the lifestyles of their employees,...
View ArticleA $300 billion institution is about to make a move that will send chills down...
First they came for the hedge funds. Now it's private equity's turn.Next Monday, The Wall Street Journal reports, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) will slice the number of...
View Article19-year-old who turned down Goldman Sachs says other students are just 'lazy'
The Wharton undergraduate student who hustled his way into a Goldman Sachs internship in his freshman year and then turned it down for a hedge fund has some strong words for his fellow Ivy League...
View ArticleThe best advice no Wall Street summer intern wants to hear
We've heard this so many times, and we feel the need to share it again with the incoming class of Wall Street interns.One great piece of advice any banker/hedge funder will give to the new recruits...
View ArticleA 22-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst's death has been ruled a suicide
The death of a young Goldman Sachs analyst in San Francisco back in April has officially been determined to be "suicide by jumping,"Bloomberg News reports, citing a police report.The police said...
View ArticleThere's a Wall Street firm that will literally never tell you to sell
Brokerage firm Sidoti & Company will literally never put a sell rating on a stock, according to the Wall Street Journal. That is because it's against company policy to publish negative research...
View ArticleMeredith Whitney says the hedge fund chapter of her life 'is over'
Meredith Whitney, the former Oppenheimer analyst who made a name for herself for some prescient calls during the financial crisis before trying her hand as a hedge fund manager, now says she's finished...
View ArticleOne analyst competing in this weekend's Wall Street Decathlon has been...
The annual Wall Street Decathlon, in which finance geeks compete in everything from running, to rowing, to pull-ups and bench press, takes place in Queens this weekend.Some competitors are so intent on...
View ArticleEX-BANKER: 'I could see that I was making a difference...I think that's...
Fred Lane, managing partner and founder of Lane Generational at Raymond James, says it's tough for young people to make their mark at investment banks.Lane, who was previously vice chairman of...
View ArticleThe key to scoring a top internship on Wall Street
It's Wall Street internship season, and that means that over the next few weeks, hundreds of eager students will descend on the banks for their first taste of life on the Street.They come from Ivy...
View ArticleWall Street is getting tired of funding socially conservative Republicans...
For years, when it came to presidential candidates, Wall Street made huge compromises in order to support the Republican Party.The money men in New York City set aside their socially liberal views in...
View ArticleThere’s one thing Wall Street interns care about more than which bank they...
Every year, young Wall Street hopefuls jockey for internships at banks like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley.But Business Insider spoke to some incoming summer analysts who told us they care...
View ArticleThis trader is Wall Street's undefeated 'best athlete' for the 4th year in a row
Former NFL player Mark Rubin, who beat Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming as a kid, captured the title of "Wall Street's Best Athlete" on Sunday at the Wall Street Decathlon for the...
View ArticleOnly one business on Wall Street has been growing consistently since the...
Over the past three years, the private-equity business in New York City has consistently grown, while the rest of Wall Street has either shrunk or grown in fits and starts.That's according to the...
View ArticleMeet the most athletic woman on Wall Street
Laura Placentra, a derivatives analyst and trader at Citigroup, won the title of "Wall Street's Best Female Athlete" on Sunday at the Wall Street Decathlon.The annual event puts athletes through 10...
View Article56 photos of super-shredded Wall Streeters
This weekend, the fastest and strongest people on Wall Street faced off in the annual Wall Street Decathlon at DaSilva Memorial Stadium at St. John's University in Queens to determine who is the best...
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