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...countries that have established huge SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as a Democratic staffer on a key House committee overseeing international trade puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" their spy agencies collect, making it "the ultimate inside-trading tool...
...what's the secret of the game's popularity among aspiring professionals? It is not a substitute singles night - many of the players are married. Neither does it involve gambling, which is banned in China. Instead, as 25-year-old bond trader Chen Jinghua confides, players are addicted to the game's heady mix of technology, power and wealth. "I can practice manipulating people and learning how to persuade or hoodwink my opponents into doing what I want, skills that I have to use everyday," she says. Since joining the club, Jinghua has met many like-minded ambitious professionals...
...industries is still taken seriously, some of the countries that have established huge SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as one U.S. Congressional staffer puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" that their spy agencies collect, making that "the ultimate inside-trading tool...
Take Robert Skiff, co-founder of the Vermont Commons School, where he is an admissions counselor and the social sciences chair. In his downtime - if the climate's right - he is an avid currency trader. "I'm not very active right now," says Skiff from his home in northern Vermont. "You have to be willing to walk away if your models aren't going to fit," and he now feels the environment is too unstable...
Skiff considers himself a "quantitative trader," which is someone who uses "rigorous computer modeling and data schemes to find advantages." He calls the other type of investors "trend followers" or "qualitative traders," those who "look at charts and 30-day moving averages" to try to beat the market...