by Ray Lam Forex trading can be tough if you do not know what you are doing. The Forex exchange market is comprised of traders, money managers, investors and speculators all striving to attain maximum profits on investment. So as a trader you should have good knowledge

July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil was little changed in New York after rising to a record yesterday as investors purchased commodities as an alternative to flagging equities markets. Oil climbed to an all-time high of $145.85 a barrel as money managers ...

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Money managers including TCW Group Inc. and Harding Advisory LLC that topped the list of firms behind the most toxic mortgage securities have raised more than $4.3 billion to invest in home-loan debt. At least half of the 20 top ...

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas will invest $250 million in a new mortgage-linked debt fund from BlackRock Inc., one of the world's largest money managers. The BlackRock fund contains $15.5 billion in loans the company bought in May from ...

BOSTON : Starting a hedge fund was long considered the road to riches for money managers, but the path has become much rockier in recent months. "It is materially harder to start a hedge fund today than it was two or five years ago," said David ...

Several respected money managers like what they see in today's market.

Barron’s is out with its semiannual poll of money managers, and it finds a lot of bullishness. Some excerpts: “More than 55 percent of poll participants think the market is undervalued, while just 10 percent say it’s overvalued. ...

... just edging out Hillary Clinton and way ahead of John McCain -- a sign that the markets are, right or wrong, betting on an Obama win in November. The numbers from up until Feb. 29: Obama has received $2196734 from money managers, ...

TB’s Quote of the day: ”If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, ... ! In the meantime, how many money managers, trying to window dress for quarterend in the worst ... firm invariably the lost money for us), that huge bonuses are paid and then a firm loses money the next

Juneau Empire - A bill before the Legislature would force managers of the Alaska Permanent Fund to dump stocks of companies doing business in Sudan, whose government has been blamed for genocidal killings in Darfur. Money managers resist bill to dump stock in Sudan ...