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Stupidity rules at SocGen …

Donnerstag, Januar 24th, 2008

Move over Nick Leeson … here comes Jérôme Kerviel
4.9bln Euro loss on Futures … obviously a lot of futures. Even if you assume a close to impossible loss of 1.000 points per contract, it must have been 200.000 FDAX or even 500.000 FESX futures … A lot for a “small position trader”.
So it […]