Hillary Davis
Hillary Davis is the author of Million
a Minute: Inside the Securities Trading – The Men, The Women, The Money That
Make the Markets Work. She now trades for her own account from her home in
London. While working in London at Baring Brothers, Davis managed US equity
portfolios as well as actively traded stocks for clients. She has a degree in
international economics from Columbia University and a master of philosophy from
Cambridge University.
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A Million a Minute
- By: Hillary Davis
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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A Million a Minute is the inside story of the mysterious and wildly influential world of trading. In our interconnected global markets, traders have become the front-line, free-market warriors closest to the money, closest to the action. Their reactions to world events can topple governments and cause currencies to rise or plummet. They affect the prices we pay for the food we eat, the gasoline we use, even our homes and mortgages.
Hillary Davis, a former portfolio manager, shows us who these people are, what motivates them, and how they came to be so powerful. Based on interviews with superstar traders and rising stars, A Million a Minute offers a context for understanding the challenges of today’s complex, lightning-fast trading environment, as well as a provocative vision of a virtual-reality trading future.
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