Rogue trader began year in profit
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The French trader that incurred massive losses for Societe Generale was in profit at the start of 2008.
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CSX Corp. on Thursday swung to a quarterly profit from a year-ago, as a gain related to the spinoff of Conrail helped offset service disruptions, some from storms, that weighed on volume growth.
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Societe Generale said Sunday that a trader who evaded all its controls to bet $73.5 billion Â more than the French bank's market worth Â on European markets hacked computers and "combined several fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions in losses.
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One year ago, a 32-year-old trader at a giant hedge fund named Amaranth held huge sway over the price the country paid for natural gas. Trading on unregulated commodity exchanges, he made risky bets that led to the fund's collapse -- and, according to a congressional investigation, higher gas bills...
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Discount brokerage Charles Schwab  Corp.  said on Monday its earnings could hit $1 billion  this year, or almost $100 million ahead of its plan.
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Profit from companies that are breaking in two.
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Beleaguered discount brokerage E*Trade  Financial Corp  posted a larger-than-expected quarterly  loss on Thursday but said it expected to return to  profitability in 2008, sending its shares higher.
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Making money in a different world than Wall Street.
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Here's how last year's stocks fared.
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This investment banking specialist has been aggressively growing its business over the past year.
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Electronic broker-dealer posts a profit and beats the Street.
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James Early shows how earnings can deceive.
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Problem gambling can show itself in the stock market.
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Many investors in derivatives are now hunting the best way to go short on credit based on the expectation that corporate defaults will rise this year.
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After a tumultuous year marked by volatility, recession fears and credit woes, top advisers place their bets.
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The DVR pioneer turns a profit for its latest quarter.
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Growing profits isn't magic. It's math.