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King Street Capital Management was founded in 1995 and initially focused on distressed debt.Over the following years the firm invested in credit markets, including in performing, stressed, distressed, corporate, structured, asset-backed credit, and real estate.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (July 26, 1877 – November 28, 1940) was an American stock trader. [1] He is considered a pioneer of day trading [2] and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a best-selling book by Edwin Lefèvre.
In addition to building new firearms, W.J. Jeffery & Co was a trader in second hand firearms, by 1892 offering over 1000 for sale. In 1898 the firm opened a shop at 13 King Street, St James's, and by 1900 the company was a full-scale gunmaker with a workshop at 1 Rose and Crown Yard, near to the King Street shop. [1] [2]
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), [2] and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. [3]
In 1978, after graduating from Penn, Cohen got a Wall Street job as a junior trader in the options arbitrage department at Gruntal & Co. [6] On his first day on the job at Gruntal & Co., he made an $8,000 profit. He eventually would go on to make the company around $100,000 a day [10] and eventually managed a $75 million portfolio and six ...
James Robert Keene (February 8, 1838 - January 3, 1913) was a Wall Street stockbroker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. Biography
In 1970, his trading increased this to $3,000, which he described as "compared to $400 ... a real grubstake", and in 1973 his capital was over $100,000. He made a profit of $500,000 trading soybeans in 1974, and by the end of that year was a millionaire, just short of twenty-six years of age.