Virtu Moving Workers to Florida as Pandemic Reshapes Wall Street; CEOs Urge Congress to Certify Biden’s Electoral College Win
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Silicon Valley Wins as SEC Allows Direct IPOs to Raise Cash; SEC Charges Ripple and Two Executives with Conducting $1.3 Billion Unregistered Securities Offering
Silicon Valley Wins as SEC Allows Direct IPOs to Raise Cash; SEC Charges Ripple and Two Executives with Conducting $1.3 Billion Unregistered Securities Offering
The Soaring Stock Index You’ve Never Heard Of; Derivatives Regulator Uses Dodd-Frank Rule to Target Foreign Bribery
The Soaring Stock Index You’ve Never Heard Of; Derivatives Regulator Uses Dodd-Frank Rule to Target Foreign Bribery
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...
Tax Law Change Means All Cash Grain Traders Are Not Equal, Better Bids or No
Grain market players who are not part of farmer-owned cooperatives are alarmed over the potential impact on grain market origination of the recent changes to the U.S. tax code. In what appears to be an unintended consequence of bad...
Why the Internet is Going on Strike
As a media company dedicated to the financial sector, John J. Lothian & Company would not ordinarily comment on proposed legislation unrelated to the financial industry. However, as a media company and one that is a particular fan of the First Amendment, we feel...
MF Global News (12/8/11 AM)
The latest news on the MF Global bankruptcy and fallout, published in the John Lothian Newsletter (subscribe here) the morning of December 8, 2011. In the wake of the MF Global bankruptcy, John Lothian Newsletter has created a special...
MF Global News (12/2/11 AM)
The latest news on the MF Global bankruptcy and fallout, published in the John Lothian Newsletter (subscribe here) the morning of December 2, 2011. In the wake of the MF Global bankruptcy, John Lothian Newsletter has created a special...
Futures Seeing Blue
As regulators, exchanges and firms comb through the mess that is MF Global, its painfully clear that this industry needs some self-examination. One of the life bloods of the futures business has come from retail and individual traders who help pump in liquidity. One...
Paying off the Debt
One of the sound bites that I hear, including from people like the caustic ex-patriot Jim Rogers, is that the US will never be able to pay off its debt. They never should pay it all off. It would be nice for them to be able to get back to the place where they are not...
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Reddit traders wage battle against Wall Street
First Read $27,651/$300,000 (9.2%) Elizabeth Cook and Robin Trott ++++ SEC Commissioner Peirce Rolls Out Welcome Mat For New Chairman Thom Thompson - John Lothian News "Even though there are unknowns, there are potential benefits," is what SEC Commissioner Hester...
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‘Weaponised’ options trading turbocharges GameStop’s dizzying rally; Reddit-Fueled Traders Trigger Volatility Halts Across Market
‘Weaponised’ options trading turbocharges GameStop’s dizzying rally; Reddit-Fueled Traders Trigger Volatility Halts Across Market
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