I feel your pain! Glad I am out of it now, but if I was back in the office I would be checking the Market Makers for sudden long positions in now-illiquid stocks, and making sure the client money was… (View Post)

"A trend is a trend is a trend, But the question is, will it bend?" (City of London, traditional) (View Post)

Yes, the last two companies I worked for have disappeared, as have a lot of non commercial institutions that I used to cover. I am thinking of museums, university departments, various historians and … (View Post)

Yes, I can go to more than one library, or visit more than one website, and in an ideal world I probably would. But books come from a variety of producers, publishers, authors and languages, and are … (View Post)

Is that right? If I make requests to a Chinese website for information about Tiananmin Square, I get fobbed off. I can't control what I cannot access. To take another example, I have just asked … (View Post)