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  1. Job Of The Week: Latin American Project Finance details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 19 hours ago

    We spent part of the afternoon combing through our Career Center in search of the most interesting jobs. There are dozens to choose from, all categorized according to...

  2. This Seems About Right details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 19 hours ago

    Today at Citigroup, in accordance with Vikram's promise to shareholders that the company will begin taking steps toward realizing the enormous potential of the C, a...

  3. American Psycho: Sometimes Penis Envy Is Just Penis Envy details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 21 hours ago

    We’re pretty much suckers for anything about American Psycho. The obsessive attention to things like lunch reservations and business cards are more frightening than any...

  4. Layoffs Watch '08: JPMorgan details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    Mark Petrinovic, JPM's head of Latin American Credit, along with 4 MD's and 1 ED, are said to have been laid off yesterday. Supposedly the cuts were "quite unexpected as...

  5. Washington DC Goes Gaga For ABC's Money Honey details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    Bianna Golodryga is apparently Washington DC’s favorite “money honey.” The former CNBC reporter moved over to ABC last year. But her appearance at the White House...

  6. Your Big Money Idea Of The Day details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    There's mucho dinero to be made in this mortgage meltdown situation, but instead of jumping in your time machine, traveling back to last summer and shorting subprime, why...

  7. Bear Employee Surprisingly Upset With Layoff Proceedings At Bear details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    I'm not exactly sure what we're supposed to do with this but a (soon to be?) former Bear employee just bcc'd us on this message to a higher up at the bank so we'll put it...

  8. Barbara Walters Has Done 80 Percent Of Wall Street's Living Dinosaurs details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    Barbara Walters' book came out this week and it's not just for those of you interested in a behind the scenes look at the catty infighting over at The View, though rest...

  9. Opening Bell: 5.9.08 details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 1 day ago

    Citigroup considers $400bn asset sale (FT) Citigroup plans to sell 1/5th of its assets, or $400bn worth of goods, as part of a major cost cutting initiative, according to...

  10. Are You Happy, Michael Bolton? ARE YOU HAPPY?! details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    Things, making money-wise, have not been going so well at Tom Hudson's Pirate Capital for a while now, but we assumed that the addition of Michael Bolton's daughters, Isa...

  11. Schwarzman Joke Bombs In Boca Raton details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    Steve Schwarzman, the head of private equity giant Blackstone, has found himself in hot water after he made some remarks at his firm’s boondoggle at Florida’s Boca...

  12. Advice details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    Obviously all the homeowners who read DealBreaker bought their pads in cash, but for the one or two of you with mortgages, listen up: make those payments. And we don't...

  13. Revolving Confidence details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    To hear the heads of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions speak, the worst of times are behind us. But a new wave of pressure seems mounting as corporate...

  14. We're Going To Be Huge In Calgary details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    We don’t usually bother with trying to win polls or prizes. It’s just not out thing. We’d rather spend our energies bringing you fake Citigroup ads or reporting on...

  15. Investors No Longer Into Buying Shares On Fortress's Face details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    Andrew Ross Sorkin reports that the bukkake party is officially over. A year after Fortress Investment Group's HISTORIC!!!! IPO, which lifted off at the high end price...

  16. Utterly Bizarre details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    Something strange is going on. First, we find out that Goldman Sachs's Global Alpha (which, for the last year, has been playing a parlor game with its colleagues under...

  17. Hipster Would Prefer To Live In Veritable Hellhole Than Next To YOU details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    The Times, of "I'm not trying to start shit" journalism, wrote about the McKibbin lofts in East Williamsburg yesterday, warehouses at 248 and 255 McKibbin Street,...

  18. GLG Not Too Concerned About The Threat Of Losing Billions, Due To Secret Weapon details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    GLG Partners, the London-based hedge fund that's seen what it would rather you not characterize as an 'exodus' of personnel over the last month, said it "hopes" to retain...

  19. GSAM: Back In The Game details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    It's been pretty well-documented that Goldman Sachs isn't so good with the hedge funds. Global Equity Partners, Global Equity Opportunities, GSIP-- none of them can get...

  20. Why Does Jimmy Cayne Bother Going Into The Office Anymore details »
    dealbreaker.com Posted 2 days ago

    By far, our favorite part of yesterday's New York Times story on the battle of nitwits at Bear Stearns was the news that chairman Jimmy Cayne was recently required to pay...