Beware Wall Street's World Cup Predictions

Reuters, Time by Tony Karon | May. 31, 2010 (Opinion)

Perhaps it's considered good branding for a top-flight investment bank to issue its predictions for this year's soccer World Cup: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and UBS have all published their own guides to the games. But these banks would do better to heed their own advice to investors: past performance is not indicative of future results. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Sirajul Islam - May 31, 2010 - 1:42 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - May 31, 2010 - 8:42 AM PDT

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 by Sirajul Islam - May. 31, 2010

World Cup Soccer means betting time. So this article hints how the big investment banks are on business.

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