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...almost hear Gordon Gekko cheer. Financial traders are widely seen as filthy rich, brash, and, well, ballsy. Now it turns out that there's cash in those cojones. According to new research from the University of Cambridge, a male trader's daily testosterone level is higher on days when he makes more than he would in an average day. What's more, the higher a trader's morning testosterone level, the more money he'll likely have netted before the close of business that day. Testosterone, in other words, can be good for business...
...traders, the research is by no means an encouragement to abuse steroids. They're "the most dangerous chemical you can put in your body," says Coates. Doing so would mean "changing your body, your brain, the memories you recall, growth, your mood," he adds. "And they're weird." Gordon Gekko might simply say they're for wimps...
With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels like the work space of an investment banker or hedge-fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, the daytime television show flickering on his sleek, flat-screen set betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels a lot like the work area of an investment banker or hedge fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, a daytime-TV segment flickering on his sleek, flat-screened television betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...plot spinning toward catastrophe; its their lurid schemes the hero must rise to defeat. Especially in sequels, which will dominate the box office this summer, all the ingenuity not expended on special effects goes into the creation of really nasty villains. Greed was good to villainous Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. To the producers of this summer's would-be blockbusters, bad is great...