Is the sole purpose of proprietary trading desks trading equities and futures and performing arbitrages based soley on profits which can be achieved better by a group of traders using firm's money. How do these firms attract money and from particular who ? Corporations hedging their positions in commodity or currency ? What is the cost and regulation to start a prop desk? What would be a requirement for you to join a prop desk in Canada ?

Is this all just disultory scaremongering promulgated by the paranoid, or can the formaldehyde, toluene, etc. chemicals that are regularly outgassed from computer desks, for instance, actually enter the body in sufficient quantities to have neurotoxicity and cancer elevating risks?

I am considering starting my own business where I make custom cabinets, desks, tables chairs etc. But I have no idea if there really is a place in the market for something like that. Does anyone know?

I bought a desk from a Habitat Restore and would like to get more information about it. Inside the drawers it says Cutler Desk Co. Buffalo New York. I've tried to find information online and the only results I get are for roll top desks and it is not a roll top. I think it is what you would call an executive style desk with a leather top.

On most modern office desks, there is a hole that allows wires for gadgets to go thru, what is this called?

I don't want to use the spray paints I see at the stores for wooden furniture. Also one of the desks is dark mahogany and I would like to paint it to a light color. Do I have to use a lot of layers of paint? Is a glossing coat needed for the cabinets and desks?

Im sitting in the desks in school, and some of them have scratchs in thes, some realy deep in the desk, how do people get those in the desks?

I watched some videos of parliamentary debates and members of the same party always slap their desks before someone speaks. Why do they do that?

I need to find a desk close to home. Problem is, I do not have a large vehicle for transport. Besides Craigslist and Ebay, any ideas on a cheap site for computer desks?