First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff The coronavirus has claimed the life of one of the leading women from our industry, Carole Brookins. Ms. Brookins' career ranged from being a market reporter at the Chicago Board of Trade to executive...
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian and JLN Staff The challenge of the coronavirus outbreak has been compared to a war. Yesterday, there was a story that compared our current situation to World War II. It is a good comparison, because there are going to be...
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian and JLN Staff The World Health Organization says the coronavirus is growing faster in the U.S. than in any other country at 40% and New York's cases are spiking, growing faster than expected. New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo...
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian and JLN Staff How about a good news story to start the newsletter? John Mormando is an RJ O'Brien broker in New York who contracted the coronavirus on March 1. The 53-year old was just released from Valley Hospital in...
First Read Trouble at Ronin? By Thom Thompson - John Lothian News With everyone looking for the first big financial collapse of the coronavirus market meltdown, all eyes turned to Ronin, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, last Friday. Ronin is (was?) a direct...
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian and JLN Staff Welcome to Friday the 13th. More cancellations and postponements. Wednesday, it was the NBA. Yesterday, it was the NHL, MLB, Broadway, Disneyland, Disneyworld and March Madness. Even Barchart joined the fun....
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian Always start with WHO. The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic. Stories emerged about Italy shutting down everything but food stores and pharmacies. Word came out that...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The markets have passed the post Dodd-Frank rules stress test, but have not figured out how to turn the stress test off. It was suggested to me we should be thanking Mr. Dodd and Mr. Frank for the way the markets have handled...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff We have decided to publish our Special Report on Spoofing on the most appropriate day of the year for such a report, April 1st. The title of the report will be "Spoofing is No Joke."~JJL Here is a message from ICE Data Services...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Welcome to International Women's Day. Here are the celebrations around the world.~JJL From Peter Schack of CNBC: If the S&P 500 declines 7%, (208 points), trading will pause for 15 minutes; if it...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Where to start? The Dow Jones fell the most number of points yesterday, ever. Five trillion dollars has been wiped off the value of stock markets globally as a result of the impact of the coronavirus....
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff I am back from Washington, DC safe and sound after the CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee meeting yesterday. There was a good turnout, though some Chicago travelers had planes cancelled and had to call in for the meeting. I...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The folks at MIAX are happy today as the MIAX Technology teams received word that they won the award for the Most Innovative Exchange Technology for 2020 at the Fund Technology and WSL Awards 2020 Gala...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Congratulations to Maureen Downs on being elected as chair of the board of directors of the National Futures Association. Don Thompson of JPMorgan Chase & Co. was elected to serve as vice-chair. With...
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Jeff Bergstrom is an editor at John Lothian News and chief information officer of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. Bergstrom is also a contributing editor of JLN Options and JLN Financials.