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...
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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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First Read $25,451/$300,000 (8.5%) Ricardo Manrique and Philip Slocum ++++ ++++ Elevated Risk Levels, Volatility Seen Continuing as 2021 Debuts Suzanne Cosgrove and Matt Raebel - John Lothian News The pandemic of 2020 and its associated economic fallout pushed the...
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Why everyone is now an options trader; Strategists See Growing Bets on Emerging-Markets Via ETF Options
Why everyone is now an options trader; Strategists See Growing Bets on Emerging-Markets Via ETF Options
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