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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Business

eBay to cut 10% of its workforce

Edward Harrison
This is not a financial sector post but I find it shocking enough that eBay is cutting 10% of its workforce that I had to post this. Now, this could be as unrelated to the current economic malaise as Yahoo's problems and rumored future job…
Markets

Dow 10,000

Edward Harrison
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has just fallen below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. Breaking through the 10,000 barrier was a huge deal on CNBC when we were partying like it was 1999, nine years ago. Essentially, we are back to…
News

News Round-Up: 6 Oct 2008

Edward Harrison
If you were away on Holiday this past week or just away from the hustle and bustle of civilisation this past weekend, you may have missed the firework in Europe. Basically, over the past week, what started as a U.S. subprime crisis and…

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