Better Research for Interviews – Part II
When you walk into that interview room, can you confidently claim to know what kind of controversies, successes, failures and strategies are associated with your potential employer? Last one year? How about last 5 years? Can you spot a pattern? Do you know the various changes in management and how that impacted the performance and [...]
Getting Certified in Bloomberg
There are at least 25,000 Bloomberg terminals at the fingertips of investment professionals around the world. Bloomberg skills are being coveted by corporate recruiters at Cornell University. If you have the slightest curiosity about financial markets and why successful investment bankers and traders use Bloomberg, come to Mann Library, attend a workshop or sign up [...]
This holiday season, the dollar is greener on the other side.
This holiday season, U.S. retailers have seen windfall rise in sales. Thanks to foreign tourists. A recent WSJ article described United States as the discount store to the world with foreign tourists stuffing extra bags to ship back to their home countries. What an interesting idea for a term paper next semester! What are the [...]
Understanding the subprime fallout
Finance students are expected to know about the recent subprime lending crisis. For instance, a job or internship interview question may go something like this: How did subprime lending in the housing sector lead to top executives of financial groups such as Merrill Lynch and CitiGroup losing their jobs? A lot has been said and [...]