First Read $28,176/$300,000 (9.4%) Patrick Hyland ++++ Update: Illinois Offers Object Lesson on Pros vs. Cons of Cannabis Business Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News There can be both highs and lows in the cannabis business. The Reddit crew learned that lesson this...
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Cboe to launch crypto indices following major data deal with CoinRoutes
First Read $18,761/$300,000 (6.3%) ++++ What a Year: Pandemic Spurs 'Beauty Contest In Growth Expectations' Among Nations Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News While the pandemic sent chills around the globe, a close look at equity performance in 2020 shows a striking...
The City of London’s Supremacy Goes Very Deep
First Read $16,711/$300,000 (5.6%) ++++ FIA Asia-V: Asia-Pacific Exchanges Look Back and Ahead Sarah Rudolph and Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News In the first panel at FIA's Asia-V 2020 Expo, exchanges in the Asia-Pacific looked back at their successes during a...
Europe’s traders call for shorter working day; Move could boost trading volumes while improving work-life balance
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Bloomberg has a story by Mark Gongloff titled "All Work and No Play Makes Jack an Unproductive Boy; America's long hours aren't helping anybody." I would agree. Work smarter, not longer.~JJL Also, the NY...
China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown
At one point in the 2013 comedy “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Matthew McConaughey’s character Mark Hanna – a slick, coke-snorting stockbroker – tells Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, “Nobody – I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffett or Jimmy Buffett – nobody knows if the stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles.”
We live in an age of unprecedented risks; Supply crunch looms in commodities
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Steve Hamilton, CurveGlobal – Demystifying the Current Trading Environment
Steve Hamilton, COO of CurveGlobal, doesn’t buy the over-the-top headlines about the state of trading. To him, the evolution of the market has been logical, and not as drastic as some would have you believe. The bottom line is that people still make trading...
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This Vegan Billionaire Disrupted the Crypto Markets. Stocks May Be Next; ‘Dramatic’ Round of Regulation Seen Coming for Cryptocurrencies
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Day Trader Fever Ticking Back Up in Latest Show of Retail Pluck; JPMorgan Sells an Exotic Quant Trade Chasing Stock-Market Whales
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