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  • April 2008

    • Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 15, 08 4:25 AM CDT

      Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone cortisol plays in slumps, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      stock market  • Wall Street  • men  • hormones  • testosterone  • bear market  • medical studies  • risky trading  • bull market  • masculinity  • hormone therapy

    • Study Links Sex and Gambling

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 5, 08 7:46 AM CDT

      Study Links Sex and Gambling

      Taking risks with money lights up the same parts of the brain as sexual arousal, a "neuroeconomics" study has found. Men shown sexy pictures gambled more daringly than those shown scary pictures—spiders and snakes—or neutral pictures, reports the AP. The study of 15 heterosexual Stanford students focused on the nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the brain and plays a central role in the experience of pleasure. More »

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      evolution  • gambling  • brain  • neurology  • scientific research  • risky trading

  • March 2008

    • Second SocGen Broker Held in Kerviel Probe

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Mar 12, 08 10:23 AM CDT

      Second SocGen Broker Held in Kerviel Probe

      Authorities have taken a second Societe Generale employee into custody and conducted a search of La Defense headquarters, as the probe into unauthorized securities trading that cost the French bank $7.6 billion expands, reports Bloomberg. Police are holding a broker from a bank subsidiary, said a SocGen spokeswoman. Another broker was taken into custody, questioned, and released last month. More »

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      rogue trader  • securities fraud  • Societe Generale  • risky trading  • SocGen  • Jerome Kerviel

  • February 2008

    • SocGen: Lax Controls Led to $7.2B Fraud

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 21, 08 7:50 AM CST

      SocGen: Lax Controls Led to $7.2B Fraud

      Rogue SocGen trader Jerome Kerviel, whose unauthorized deals led to a $7.2 billion loss for the French bank, continued his trading for more than a year after the first warning flag was raised in the department that was supposed to detect risky trading, reports the Wall Street Journal. Kerviel wrote at least seven bogus emails flagged for anomalies, and his trades tripped 24 alarms over a 14-month period beginning in July 2006, the bank admits in a report  released yesterday. More »

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      France  • Société Générale  • Jérôme Kerviel  • bank fraud  • rogue trader  • risky trading  • derivatives market

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