[lbo-talk] FP: Oil trader's booze-induced trading rampage set off global panic

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 19:00:34 PDT 2010


"The* New York Times* reports <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/business/global/01oil.html?_r=1&ref=global>that one Steven Perkins, a former oil trader based in London, set off a minor panic in global markets last June when he traded more than half a billion dollars in Brent crude oil after a night of heavy drinking."

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/30/oil_traders_booze_induced_trading_rampage_set_off_global_panic

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