Tencent’s $251 Billion Rally Triggers Frenzy in Shares, Options; Investor anxiety mounts over prospect of stock market ‘bubble’
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Global futures and options trading reaches record level in 2020; CFTC chair steps down, academic Chris Brummer in lead to replace him: sources
Global futures and options trading reaches record level in 2020; CFTC chair steps down, academic Chris Brummer in lead to replace him: sources
London’s lost EU share trading could be gone for good, warn City figures; New York Stock Exchange Pressured to Push Ahead and Delist 3 Chinese Firms
London’s lost EU share trading could be gone for good, warn City figures; New York Stock Exchange Pressured to Push Ahead and Delist 3 Chinese Firms
Divided U.S., Not Covid, Is the Biggest Risk to World in 2021, Survey Finds; EU share trading flees London on first day after full Brexit
Divided U.S., Not Covid, Is the Biggest Risk to World in 2021, Survey Finds; EU share trading flees London on first day after full Brexit
Retail trading boom spills over into fine wine market; US banks rack up $200bn in fines and penalties over 20 years
Retail trading boom spills over into fine wine market; US banks rack up $200bn in fines and penalties over 20 years
Wall Street Fines Peaked in 2020, Driven by Sums From Big Cases; Ant Group IPO Postponed by Shanghai Stock Exchange
Wall Street Fines Peaked in 2020, Driven by Sums From Big Cases; Ant Group IPO Postponed by Shanghai Stock Exchange
Stocks fall in wake of new coronavirus flare-ups; Free Trades, Jackpot Dreams Lure Small Investors to Options
Stocks fall in wake of new coronavirus flare-ups; Free Trades, Jackpot Dreams Lure Small Investors to Options
The City of London Has a Slavery Problem; Virus Surges Across U.S., Throwing Reopenings Into Disarray
The City of London Has a Slavery Problem; Virus Surges Across U.S., Throwing Reopenings Into Disarray
FIA IDX-V: ESMA’s Verena Ross on Regulation and Priorities During COVID-19
Verena Ross, executive director of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said Tuesday that despite “unprecedented market reaction to the virus and government closings,” overall EU trading structures worked well during the COVID-19 crisis. In a...
Coronavirus Pandemic Likely to Last Two Years, Report Says; The Pandemic’s Long-Term Pain Is Just Becoming Clear to Markets
First Read Viewpoint: Community in a time of need By Walt Lukken - FIA Greetings from my home office/laundry room on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The laundry is clean and put away! And thanks for all who posted photos of your home offices....
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...
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...
‘Questionable’ Death Prompts Call to Exhume Quadriga CEO’s Body; ASX creates the Aussie Nasdaq
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq's TotalMarkets podcast episode 6 features Nasdaq's chief economist, Phil Mackintosh, interviewing T. Rowe Price's Mehmet Kinak on the topic of improving market structure.~SR Do you want to know...
Math Whiz Trades Without Humans to Build a $700 Million Fortune
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Dan Stern is the subject of today's MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project video. Stern is part of a prominent Chicago Board of Trade family of traders and lovers of soccer.~JJL John...
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Nasdaq launching options on the Nasdaq-100 Micro Index; 3 reasons the stock market rally is set to continue despite recent volatility, according to UBS Wealth Management
Nasdaq launching options on the Nasdaq-100 Micro Index; 3 reasons the stock market rally is set to continue despite recent volatility, according to UBS Wealth Management
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