About half of leavers enter finance or consulting: one hotshot talks fondly of his internship on a London dealing desk with Deutsche Bank.
Despite shares being close to a one-month high, [our] dealing desk has recorded a surge in long positions in M&S this morning.
As far as I know, the Fed buys securities through the dealing desk of the New York Fed, which pays the same prices as everybody else in the market.
Traders at dealing desks in Tokyo and Frankfurt can buy Polish stocks, Lebanese bonds, or Venezuelan currency futures, with the money being transferred in and out of the relevant currencies at the flick of a computer switch.
When they come back to their dealing desks in September, they began to look towards the end of the year… and realise that the small economic clouds they had been able to shrug off in midsummer are still there, and getting more stormy looking by the day.
On Wall Street dealing desks, profits and losses are evaluated every afternoon when trading ends, and the firms' positions are "marked to market" — valued on the basis of the closing prices.
He held senior positions at Shearson Lehman Brothers, helping to start the mergers and acquisitions department, and at Morgan Stanley, where he was co-director of the firm's deals desk.
"My Box experience, where I started the Deal Desk department, gave me unique insights into how a company turbo-charged an amazing product," she tells us.
More Bandwidth – It is easier to control the cadence and timing of deals because you are not competing with other vendors for your customers' personnel resources, such as their legal team, purchasing department and the CFO's deal desk.
The day was a national holiday, but why, people asked, was Mr Lee on the links schmoozing with businessmen rather than at his desk dealing with a national railway strike?
After two years as an analyst in the bank's back office, Adoboli made the relatively unusual move to the trading floor, soon joining the desk dealing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), bundles of stocks, commodities or other assets that can be traded like ordinary shares.
