Observations & Insight Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands In Products And In Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to...
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Square
Square's cryptocurrency development unit has announced its first product - the "Lightning Development Kit" (LDK), which is designed to help software developers integrate Bitcoin's Lightning Network into digital asset wallets.
SEC Decision on 4 p.m. Closing Trades Deals Blow to NYSE, Nasdaq; The new kings of the bond market
First Read Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands in Products and in Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to the expansion of...
Hedge Funds Not Led by White Men Outperform Peers Nearly 2 to 1; China Seeks to Stop Virus Scare From Becoming Political Crisis
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Paul Tudor Jones told CNBC that this 'crazy' stock market run reminds him a lot of 'early' '99~JJL One of the political issues of the day is voter registration. People across the U.S. are being knocked...
The index providers are quietly building up enormous powers; The Dog That Didn’t Bark: What Soybean Prices Say About Trade Deal
First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffToday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. and JLN will not be publishing its Options Newsletter today. In fact, after JLN goes out, the team has the rest of the day off, or you could say after JLN...
The Spread: It Takes Two to Contango
This week on The Spread – low natural gas prices lead to an increase in swaptions trading, the CME has another successful launch, and a Binance-backed exchange boasts a ton of trading volume.
Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019; Volatility-Targeting Funds Leverage Up at Fastest Since ‘18 Rout
Observations & Insight Cboe tweeted yesterday that average daily volume for FLEX options in 2019 hit record highs, surpassing the record set in 2018 by 49,408 contracts.~MR Lead Stories Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019...
Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years; Fed’s Kaplan Warns Central Bank Actions Are Driving Up Risk Taking
Lead Stories Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years Amrith Ramkumar - WSJ The S&P 500 is in one of its longest streaks without a 1% daily move in the past five decades, highlighting how the latest leg of the stock-market...
Liquid
Cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has announced the cancellation of its sale of gram tokens due to the coin’s failure to launch on time. Liquid’s head of business development said that 100 percent of client funds raised in the sale were returned.
Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out; Euro Volatility Hits Record Low in Defiance of Market Theory
Lead Stories Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out Robin Wigglesworth - Financial Times Financial markets have suffered a few frights already this year, but despite the shocks delivered by US president Donald Trump and...
Bitwise
Bitwise has officially withdrawn its request with the SEC to list a bitcoin ETF, but intends to attempt to re-list “at an appropriate time.”
Oil price slides as hedge funds’ buying fades; As investor optimism nears 2-year highs, analysts warn of stock-market pullback
Lead Stories Oil price slides as hedge funds' buying fades John Kemp - Reuters Despite the increase in tensions across the Middle East after the killing of an Iranian general by a U.S. air strike, hedge fund managers added only modestly to...
Investors Are Counting on Earnings to Rebound in 2020; Oil price slides as hedge funds’ buying fades
Observations & Insight ...in with the new JohnLothianNews.com This week on The Spread - the OCC and CME report cause to celebrate, bitcoin options products abound, and the options markets react to retaliation from Iran. Watch the video »...
…in with the new
This week on The Spread – the OCC and CME report cause to celebrate, bitcoin options products abound, and the options markets react to retaliation from Iran.
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Matt Raebel is a Chicago-based writer and blogger. He is currently an associate editor with John Lothian News.