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Open-Plan Offices Are Making Us Less Social: Leonid Bershidsky
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In recent years, a number of big companies – IBM, Bank of America, Aetna, Yahoo! under former chief executive officer Marissa Mayer – cut back on their telecommuting programs in the name of more interaction and cooperation between employees, supposedly fostered by being stuck together in an office.

Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: AI Trading and Agency Bond Prices
published May 19th 2016, 8:21 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Artificial intelligence. Look, Two Sigma is a big smart hedge fund that has done well and made its founders rich and has prospective recruits wear virtual-reality headsets for some reason. And I am sure they are wonderful at

Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Earnings and Lawsuits, Mostly Suits
published Apr 15th 2015, 7:14 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Bank earnings. Bank of America beat on adjusted earnings, though the news was mixed; trading was disappointing (outside of foreign exchange, which did great) but legal costs were down significantly from last year. “The firm said it’s keeping

Wall Street’s 2007 Heroes Ascendant as Goldman, Blackstone Surge
©2015 Bloomberg News NMXEOH6KLVR8 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Blackstone Group LP were the toast of Wall Street in 2007 as they raised record-setting funds and earned returns of more than 30 percent. Eight years later, they captured some of that dominance again in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs