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05/08/08 - The Raw Greenwich News Feed


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  1. Prime Brokers Will Generate Over US$11 Billion in Revenues from Hedge ...

    Business Wire

    ... While many US hedge funds still run their international portfolios from offices in the Greenwich, CT

  2. Book review: The Blackjack Hijack

    Die is Cast

    ... book is going to come up in conversation, but if it does, I'm covered here Einstein. The Blackjack Hijack . Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Books, 1976. Paperback, $1.50 In the 1960s, with Ed Thorp's publication of Beat the Dealer , there ... Comment?

  3. Family Services of Westchester to honor Family of the Year

    Journal News

    ... Ave. in White Plains. The honorees are Robert and Cristina Weisz and children, Alexandra and Andrew, of Greenwich, Conn. 'Robert Weisz is not only a leader in Westchester's real-estate community, but also a leader in helping those less fortunate ...

  4. Circle of Friends to salute volunteers

    Thehour.com

    ... at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, to honor its more than 70 teen and adult volunteers. Susan Robison of Westport, a Greenwich school teacher and volunteer coordinator, who has been volunteering with The Circle of Friends for more than three years, will ...

  5. General Dynamics Picks Retired Admiral Johnson as Chief Executive Officer

    Bloomberg

    ... percent. ``The ship business is recovering, so the naval background is important,'' Peter Arment , an analyst with Greenwich, Connecticut-based American Technology Research, said in an interview yesterday. ``You've got to have relations in the ...

  6. Tisdale cited for anti-poverty work

    Connecticut Post

    ... was awarded the club's Distinguished Civic Leader Award. He won the award at the group's recent spring gala in Greenwich. Tisdale oversees a staff of more than 400 people who provide anti-poverty services to more than 35,000 residents in Bridgeport, ...

  7. Pelican Cafe a labor of love in Lake Park

    Palm Beach Post

    ... "We wanted to both get back to Florida," Howe said. She grew up here, and her family is in Jupiter. He's from Greenwich, Conn., where he'd been working as a food and beverage manager. "He's from a family with a background in fine dining," Howe said ...

  8. Euro Declines to Eight-Week Low Against Dollar Before ECB Policy Meeting

    Bloomberg Business News

    ... and global contagion will be taking hold,'' said Alan Ruskin , head of international currency strategy at RBS Greenwich Capital Markets in Greenwich, Connecticut, in an interview on Bloomberg Television. ``This is playing in favor of the dollar in ...

  9. Blue Source Unveils Carbon Offset Sales

    Institutional Investor

    ... trading market--unofficially referred to as the Alberta Carbon Offset Market. The company, which is backed by Greenwich, Conn., private equity outfit First Reserve Corp., sold the offsets for $10-13 each, because buyers incur more delivery and ...

  10. Dutch Artworks Reunited At Bruce Museum

    Hartford Courant

    ... Saturday in 'Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goustikker' at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich ...

  11. Boydston Joins Starwood Land Ventures

    PR Newswire

    ... investment firm focused on land acquisition, development and financing nationwide. The firm is an affiliate of Greenwich, CT-based Starwood Capital Group Global, LLC. Starwood Land provides debt and equity financing and recapitalization solutions to ...

  12. Oracle Healthcare Acquisition Corp. Announces Stockholder Approval of ...

    PR Newswire

    GREENWICH, Conn., FirstCall/ -- Oracle Healthcare Acquisition Corp.

  13. FOREX-Dollar up on strong data, Fed inflation talk

    Reuters

    ... rate cuts may do little good and some inflation harm," said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Fed cut its benchmark rate to 2 percent last week but hinted it was ready to pause an ...

  14. Pittsburgh No. 1 In Soot

    Tuesday | The Onion

    ... dioxide a year." Alex Downie , Antiques Restorer "Well, it's better than being the snootiest. How d'ya like that, Greenwich, Connecticut?" ...

  15. Merrill Trader Ehsani to Leave as Thain Drops Plan to Spin Off Hedge Fund

    Bloomberg.com

    ... , who previously led that team, quit in February to join hedge-fund manager Strategic Value Partners LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ehsani, who joined Merrill in 1985 and in the 1990s worked as an investment banker and member of the firm's ...

  16. Connecticut vs. California

    Politics in the Zeros

    ... Hartford Courant. Job and business growth in Connecticut is nonexistent, and if it wasn't for the super-wealthy Greenwich area, things would be much worse. Yes, Connecticut still has the highest per capita income of any state, but given the ...


  17. 2008 Legislative session

    Hartford Courant

    News from the final days of the Connecticut legislature's session

  18. Bill On Ethics Cases Languishes In House

    Hartford Courant

    A Senate-approved bill that would let legislators and other state employees use taxpayer-funded state lawyers to defend them in ethics cases is floundering in the House, where a key committee chairman refuses ...

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