First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff LinkedIn is reporting the 15-year anniversary of John Lothian being at John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. Time flies when you publish a newsletter.~JJL CME Economist Erik Norland is back with more super weird spaghetti graphs,...
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Frankfurt Winning Battle for Brexit Bankers; End of 47-Year Japan Rice Program; Smart beta funds pass $1tn
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Spencer Doar's weekly JLN Options video feature, The Spread, continues to get better. This last week's was a beut.~JJL Holy smokes. Get this: "The Legends Room, the world's only blockchain based nightclub, rings in 2018 with two...
Here’s What Analysts Are Saying About the First Round of French Elections; Charts Show Traders Writing Down Chances of a Le Pen Presidency; OCC seeks leverage ratio relief as liquidity shrinks
First Read The future of futures markets: Exchanges looking to fail fast By Jim Kharouf, JLN Andreas Preuss, deputy CEO, Deutsche Boerse had a show stopper. At the IOMA: World Federation Exchanges conference in Frankfurt on Friday, he said his exchange will have to...
NYSE Told Major Outage in 2015 May Have Broken Securities Rules; The Race to the Speed of Light Is Accelerating; Rolling Back the Fiduciary Rule – a Primer on Making (and Unmaking) a Regulation
First Read Solidifying an American foothold: LSEG's UnaVista and MTS platforms look to expand Spencer Doar - JLN The London Stock Exchange Group has plenty of reasons to be in the news due to its pending merger with Deutsche Boerse, but while all of those discussions...
John Lothian Newsletter: Direct Match hires ex-equity exchange chief in launch push; Vitriolic Presidential Primaries Quelling Economic Uncertainty; EU Lawmakers Approve MiFID II Market Rule Delay by One Year
First Read ICAP's blockchain initiative would slim down middle and back office processes Sarah Rudolph, JLN Excitement about blockchain technology and debate about the potential uses for it were top of mind at last month's FIA Boca conference, and one of the more...
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First Read $29,826/$300,000 (9.9%) Charles Bohm ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CME set new record volumes in the Ultra 10-Year Note and 30-Year Bond futures on February 23. Ultra 10-Year Note futures reached a record volume of 1.7 million...
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GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
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