Shaw Capital Management : DJ Stingray's 85 Min Mix - BOILER ROOM

DJ Stringray is so Detroit. Just listen to this mix, and imagine him with the balaclava, the sweat bands, the big black tee. Man's exuding some serious degenrate Motor City vibes.

Shaw Capital Management : Hyetal – 'Live From' Fact x Young Turks - BOILER ROOM

Not only is this Hyetal's debut live performance, it's also a chance to hear lots of exclusive ish from his forthcoming album on Black Acre. So in terms of the freshest stuff around, this is pretty much the peak of it today.

Shaw Capital Management : SBTRKT – ‘LIVE FROM’ YOUNG TURKS X SXSW - BOILER ROOM

It's your main man SBTRKT mixing up some of those most dangerous flavours he specialises in. He just got given his very own rinse sow as well, so if you haven't already, wake yourself up to the fact he is dope.

Shaw Capital Management : Tawiah – Sweet For Me (Jet Letts remix) - BOILER ROOM

After Tawiah made that little surprise appearance at Boiler Room, we've keeping a close eye on what she's up to. She's got a forthcoming album that w can imagine will be pretty amazing - but in the meantime here's a remix of her track 'Sweet For Me'

Shaw Capital Working Management Tips & Articles: Molinero Capital Management expands its team

Molinero Capital Management has recruited a new Applied Research Group comprised of three senior researchers. The researchers were previously trading at Louis Dreyfus Commodities and represent on a combined basis about 40 years of trading experience.

Rafael Molinero says: “We always have put an emphasis on quantitative research and also truly believes to be critical of our success. This is a great opportunity for us to work with talented and like minded individuals with whom we share the same values while having complimentary knowledge. We are simply thrilled and look forward to working together.”

The Molinero Capital Management team is now composed of ten people with nine dedicated to Research. Earlier in 2010, Guillaume Dehan joined as Director of Business Development.

Rafael Molinero says: “Guillaume will play a key role in better servicing our existing clients and growing our institutional business. His 10 years of experience, and strong understanding of the industry will prove invaluable in developing our business.”

Shaw Capital Management Financial News:Sony’s PlayStation data warning after hacker attack

Sony has warned users of its PlayStation network that their personal information, including credit card details, could have been stolen.

The company said that the data could have fallen into the hands of an “unauthorised person” following a hacking attack on its online service.

Access to the network was suspended last Wednesday, but Sony has only now revealed details of what happened.

Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones says the company has released a statement saying that experts took a further six days to realise how much data could have been taken.

Shaw Capital Management Financial News:Sony Clouds Badly Compromised

Tuesday might not have been the absolutely best time for Sony to divulge that it, like so many others, is going to go skipping after Apple into the media tablet business later this year with two Android Honeycomb models code named S1 and S2.

See, as the last of the top 10 laptop makers to declare its intentions, by fall when the widgets are due, it’ll be coming from behind and to differentiate itself in an already overcrowded field it intended to borrow or piggyback on the cloud-ified media services in its PlayStation franchise.

A sensible idea up to the point late Tuesday that it found itself confessing that its great PlayStation Network for multi-player gaming as well as its streaming Qriocity online entertainment service, the cloud that pipes music, Netflix movies, sports and TV shows to Sony widgets, had been hacked – and hacked badly – sometime between April 17 and April 19 – which caused a catastrophic failure.

Sony now says that some unknown felon made off last week with the personal data in its 77 million PlayStation accounts – let me repeat that – 77 million accounts plus the “sub-accounts” data on any kids you might have signed up. How many Qriocity subscribers it’s got is unclear.

The personal data includes the accounts’ name, complete street address down to the Zip Code, e-mail address, birth date, PlayStation Network and Qriocity password and login and handle or PSN online name.

Sony’s also afraid that the hacker got everybody’s profile data, including purchase history, billing address and password security answers, as well as their credit card numbers.

It’s not sure the thief stole the credit card data but, it said, “We cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.”

Because of the intrusion Sony has hired itself an investigator. It’s also trying to get the rebuilt and presumably less penetrable services back up in the next week.

It’s “strongly” recommending that when the services are restored, users l on and change their password and, if they use the passwords elsewhere, they change them too. It thinks it might be a good idea for US users to contact the three main credit bureaus and have them put a free “fraud alert” on their accounts.

As far as the Tegra 2-based tablets go, well, the S1 is a tapered 9.4-inch slate and the S2 is a clamshell device with two 5.5-inch displays that can function as one screen. They include Wi-Fi or 3G/3G.

Sony described the first as “optimized for media entertainment” and the second as targeted at “mobile communication and entertainment.” Besides games and movies it’s also thinking Sony Reader e-books, e-mail and social networking.

It didn’t mention price other than to suggest the widgets would be competitive.

It will also introduce a Windows version by the end of the year.

Sony wants to be number 2 after Apple by next year.

See here.

Shaw Capital Management Headlines: Rebuilding the Financial Sector

Global finance ministers and central bankers have concluded three days of talks in Washington with pledges of greater cooperation to avert another financial crisis.

But delegates at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting left it uncertain how far they would go in changing their domestic policies in response to international pressures. They also expressed concern that “significant risks” still threatened the recovery.

While Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf urged highly indebted developed countries to “pursue credible fiscal consolidation”, she and other Swiss officials admitted that big banks and a hot housing market posed challenges to the recovery in Switzerland.

Although Switzerland has weathered the crisis better than other developed countries, the situation is not all rosy, according to the IMF. The organisation warned of “lax lending standards in the mortgage market” that warrant “pre-emptive measures” from the authorities.

It also expressed concern about “risks related to the two large banks” – UBS and Credit Suisse – and called for the swift adoption by parliament of the cabinet’s draft law aimed at reducing the impact on the national economy of so-called too-big-to-fail banks.

At a joint press briefing in Washington on Saturday, Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann and Philipp Hildebrand, president of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), gave somewhat contrasting reassurances about the potential for a housing bubble in Switzerland.

Watching developments

Schneider-Ammann told swissinfo.ch that a housing bubble was “not a real, serious risk”, in part because of the policies implemented by the Swiss National Bank.

Hildebrand sounded less confident, however. “A housing bubble might or might not be in the making, but the key is that we don’t end up in that situation,” he told swissinfo.ch, noting that the Swiss real estate market had pockets where prices had risen “substantially” and that banks were in a very competitive environment and had “relatively loose” lending standards.

“We didn’t have a housing bubble at the beginning of the crisis, contrary to what happened in some other countries, and it would be a tragedy if we produced a housing bubble now,” he said.

Hildebrand stressed, however, that the Swiss authorities were determined to watch developments closely “and take prudent action, if necessary”.

Risks remain

Regarding the recovery of the world economy, the IMF committee warned that “significant risks” remained. Indeed, public deficits and debt were among the main topics of discussion at and around the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

Other main issues included the economic consequences of the recent popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East.

“Credible actions are needed to accelerate progress in addressing challenges to financial stability and sovereign debt sustainability, and to ensure timely fiscal consolidation in advanced countries,” said the IMF’s political body, which comprises the finance ministers of member countries.

In her statement to the committee, Widmer-Schlumpf  stressed that although the prospects for a global recovery had solidified, “risks to growth that could derail the global recovery continue to prevail”.

She pointed to instability in the euro area periphery as the key risk, due to concerns about “the sustainability of public debt levels in some economies”.

But broadening her geographical scope to include the United States, she saw “a strong need for many advanced countries to pursue credible fiscal consolidation strategies”, warning that “simply returning to pre-crisis fiscal positions and eliminating structural deficits will not be enough”.

“Deeper inclusion”

As uprisings continue in several North African and Middle Eastern countries, the steering committee asked the IMF to monitor closely related economic fallout.

The IMF was also tasked to assess development aid in those regions. “Together, we can build a better future for those countries,” said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director of the IMF, referring to Egypt and Tunisia.

He added, however, that it would be critical for all nations to guard against complacency, especially in the face of new threats from higher oil and food prices, which were exacting a heavy toll on the world’s poorest nations.

For his part, Johann Schneider-Ammann said the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East showed that economic growth must be coupled with “deeper inclusion”.

“It is paramount to expand the positive trends recorded in many parts of the developing world through inclusive and more equitable economic growth, access to basic services and strengthened governance,” he said.