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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...
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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...
India’s NSE overtakes CME Group as largest derivatives exchange globally
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq yesterday published their 4th annual Tech Trends report, this one titled "Nasdaq Decodes: Tech Trends 2020." This is their report that covers big broad topics they see impacting how markets...
London’s Future Is in the Hands of the EU
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Yesterday there was a bigger crowd for the CFA Society Chicago's SOFR panel discussion in Chicago than for the Security Traders Association Mid-winter Annual Meeting further south down Michigan Avenue. The SOFR discussion was a...
U.S. Recommends No Jail Time for Flash Crash Trader
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Suzanne Cosgrove, Mike Forrester and I will be at the Security Traders Association Mid-Winter Annual Meeting this morning. If you are there, say hello. If you have news, let us know.~JJL Yesterday we...
CME Sees 54 Options on Bitcoin Futures Traded in Debut
First Read More exchanges decelerate drive for speed, experiment with miniscule delays Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News After a prolonged drive to be the fastest to execute trades, more exchange operators are experimenting with speed bumps, or fractional delays in...
Wanna Bet? The Market Has a View on the 2020 Election
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Cboe's Jacqueline Stewart was the recipient of the Cboe's "Outstanding Community Service Award" for 2019. Congratulations to Jacqueline on her outstanding work.~JJL The CME Group's E-mini S&P 500 ESG...
Traders across Europe face up to the cost of failure; Basel derivative rules point to more pain for fund managers
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff FT Partners has a paper titled "The Rise of Challenger Banks." ~JJL OCC and Cboe, the hosts of the 2020 Options Industry Conference in Puerto Rico this April, announced that they have donated a combined...
Regulators Seek to Loosen U.S. Exchanges’ Control Over Stock Data; Swiss Trader Spills Secrets of Global Insider-Trading Network
First Read Nothing Learned from the CFTC Bullying a Win in the Thakkar Case CFTC Commissioner Leadership Needed to End This Regulation by Litigation Case By John J. Lothian If Jitesh Thakkar loses his case brought by the Enforcement Division of...
Index funds break through $10tn-in-assets mark amid active exodus; Senator Whose Spouse Runs Major Exchange to Help Oversee Regulator
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Today we have the Open Outcry Traders History Project video interview of Marc Nagel, a former pit trader at the CBOT, but also a lawyer, CPA, derivatives consultant and expert witness. He is also the former head of...
Edward Wedbush, the Founder of Wedbush Securities, Dies at 87
First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffCboe Executive Vice President Bryan Harkins has been named to Autism Science Foundation Board of Directors. Keep up the good work, Bryan!~JJLJLN is getting ready to publish another commentary about the Jitesh Thakkar...
Wall Street banks ramp up research into quantum finance; U.K. Examines if Cyberattack Triggered London Stock Exchange Outage
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff A friend at the ASX shared information on where to send financial assistance to help those impacted by the disastrous fires there. Here are three organizations to send help for people, to help fight the...
The EU Is No Match for the Financial Crime Gangs; Sprawling Insider-Trading Case Heads to Trial
See also: Market Regulator Heads Back to Court Against Kraft and Mondelez, Investor Advocates See Risks in Silicon Valley’s Favorite IPO Alternative, and more.
China Suspends Link Between Shanghai, London Exchanges; Japan’s GPIF is right — short selling is downright irresponsible
See also: Buying or Selling Stocks? It Isn’t Always Easy; Insider-Trading Prosecutions Just Got Easier With Court Ruling, and more.
Innovation and Choice in the Post-Libor Landscape
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff As this is the last edition of the John Lothian Newsletter for the year 2019, I want to thank all of you readers for your support and enthusiasm for our products. I want to thank our sponsors for their loyal support. I want to...
