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Seems like DHS passed out a new rule extending the period of OPT by 17 months to a total of 29 months -- it appears to me the rule was put out yesterday.... Here are a couple of (.gov) websites DHS: 17-Month Extension of Optional Practical Training for Certain Highly Skilled Foreign Students...

Its literally dinner in the sky -- this Belgium firm, gets a crane, puts a table 50 meters up where ever you want (in front of a cathedral, sea front) and there you go... Here are some pictures Dinner in the Sky

Google introduced a new stock screener on finance.google.com -- its amazing (i know its google but still)!!!!! Google Finance: Stock Screener

Well the top 3 headlines at the hour on Bloomberg are: 1) Treasuries Rise; 3-Month Bill Rates Fall to Lowest Since 1950s 2) Lehman Drops After Fuld Says Fed Eased Cash Concerns 3) Oil, Gold Rise to Records as Dollar Fuels Commodities And yet the Dow is up for the day, and S&P hardly reacted...

the wall street journal online is free today, thanks to ING (or maybe Maciek). Check out the Heard on the street... It talks (perhaps not surprisingly about Bear!) online.wsj.com

I just got access to this amazing book on Options Trading ... Have read only 60 pages, but still felt compelled to *HIGHLY* recommend it .... Dynamic Hedging : Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options -- By Nassim Taleb ISBN 0471152803 // 978-0471152804 Amazon.com: Dynamic Hedging: Managing...

Here is a cute little problem - Assume you have a stock, currently trading at S=100.... Consider a perpectual (no maturity) american binary option that pays you $1 if the stock ever crosses 150... i.e. as soon as the stock crosses 150, you exercise and you get 1$ historical mu=10% per annum...

Hi all... I did a small write up 'on risk neutrality and pricing of derivatives'.... kind of explains what risk neutral is (according to me) and why its okay to replace mu by r, when we price derivative securities... please let me know if you any comments/ questions/ feedback sp

Just saw (and signed up) for this website http://www.cricstock.com/... it sounds like a virtual trading forum like the one we have.... only difference, instead of stocks the securities are cricket players and you get virtual cricket rupees... Right now its in the IPO stage where you can bid for...

I was browsing through the global derivatives forum today, and came across an interesting thread there :-- http://www.global-derivatives.com/forum/index.php?topic=3506.0 ... A cmu student writes about his interivew experiences.... The posting (with all the obvious disclaimers)is :-...