Bo Diddley
Your humble blogger is taking a break from his winter break to share some items that just didn’t want to wait ‘til next week. So set aside that eggnog and pop this cork a little early -- here comes the last 360 of 2011. Best wishes for peace, health, prosperity and happiness in 2012, my friends.
- Prosperity Bancshares switches to NYSE – Houston Business Journal
- Energy products distributor Edgen Group files to list IPO on NYSE – Edgen
- Larry Leibowitz talks with Jeff Mackie about high-frequency trading, market structure and regulation, and investor confidence – Yahoo Finance! (video) – Hey Yahoo, where’s the “report” button to report hateful language in the comments? When someone is making anti-Semitic comments, it’s not enough to just let readers vote “thumbs down” on the comment. There's no room for hate speech in
civil discourse.
- On the anniversary of Muriel Siebert’s NYSE membership, a history of women on Wall Street – Bloomberg
- Should we build a stock-market simulator? – Felix Salmon, Gillian Tett
- Pinstripe Bowlers visit NYSE, NYC -- WSJ, Star-Ledger, Iowa State Daily, Des Moines Register, Iowa Gazette
- I was also moved by the teams' comments about visiting the 9/11 memorial– Des Moines Register, GoCyclones
- The war on financial cyber-terrorism – The Economist
- Retired NYSE member Charles Henderson recalls ‘Wall Street days ‘charged with electricity’ – Palm Beach Daily News
- Ringing the bell for women in finance – Henrico Citizen, NBC, Business Review
- IBM at 100, still inventing itself -- eWeek
- MIT Sloan Fellows’ visit to NYSE -- MIT
- Best Christmas tree displays in NYC, including ours – cheapo air
- From a sawmill to the NYSE, the Camp story – Historical Marker Database
- Scenes from a trading floor -- Reuters, AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
- Scenes from a trading floor, with PUPPIES! – Helen Woodward Animal Center
- Charlie Chaplin on Douglas Fairbanks' shoulders outside NYSE, 1918 – Tom Clark
- Light volume? Time for a limerick – Limericks Economiques
- We’re gonna party like it’s 1899 – Steven Wheeler/Exchanges
- Today’s history – Asa Griggs Candler, a developer of Coca-Cola, was born on this date in 1851. -- NYT Some notable birthdays in pop and rock music today: Bo Diddley (1928-2008); Paul Stookey, 74; Michael Nesmith, 69; Davy Jones, 66; Patti Smith, 66; and Jeff Lynn, 64.
