1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000031665

Autore

Santangelo, Annamaria

Titolo

Antiche confraternite a Venosa / Annamaria Santangelo ; presentazione di Antonio Cestaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Venosa : Osanna, 1984

Descrizione fisica

48 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Riccardiana ; 3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830808003321

Autore

Melamed Leo

Titolo

For crying out loud [[electronic resource] ] : from open outcry to the electronic screen / / Leo Melamed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

ISBN

1-119-19771-6

1-282-36929-6

9786612369292

0-470-53080-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

332.6440973

332.6452

Soggetti

Commodity exchanges - Illinois - Chicago - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Part I: Battling the Tyranny of the Status Quo; Part II: Messenger from the



Futures; Part III: Appendixes; Notes; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Praise of For Crying Out Loud ""Endowed with strong parents and a bit of luck, Leo Melamed has made a remarkable escape from Nazi occupied Poland to building one of the pinnacles of global finance. Over four decades and more, he was the leading force in bringing his beloved 'Merc' from obscure trading pits for butter and eggs, and pork bellies to a model of electronic efficiency, handling billions of financial contracts, almost instantaneously with certainty of execution. Leo's pride in the Merc's safeguards against risk are justified by its sustained market performance in t