Biden Victory Is Certified After Day of Debate and Tumult; Pro-Trump Mob Driven From Capitol After Breach, Fatal Shooting
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Hedge Funds Had a Fine Year Amid Covid Volatility; The valuation warning signs for stock markets
Hedge Funds Had a Fine Year Amid Covid Volatility; The valuation warning signs for stock markets
SEC Approves Plan to Bring More Detailed Stock-Market Data to Public; Citi Trial Shows Chain of Gaffes Leading to $900 Million Blunder
SEC Approves Plan to Bring More Detailed Stock-Market Data to Public; Citi Trial Shows Chain of Gaffes Leading to $900 Million Blunder
JPMorgan Warns of Crowded Trades Amid Markets’ ‘Clear Consensus’
JPMorgan Warns of Crowded Trades Amid Markets’ ‘Clear Consensus’
FIA Asia-V: CCP Resilience Does Not Dissuade Industry From Self Assessment
Jackie Mesa, who is FIA’s COO and Senior VP of Global Policy, moderated Asia-V’s panel, "The CCP Perspective on the Asia-Pacific Clearing Environment." Her panelists were Kate Birchall from LCH, Agnes Koh, from Singapore Exchange, Vikram Kothari from NSE Clearing...
FIA Expo: Good Fragmentation vs. Bad Fragmentation
Deborah North, partner at the law firm Allen & Overy, moderated the Wednesday morning panel titled “Is Market Fragmentation the Future?” at FIA Expo 2020.
Bulls are back in the Nasdaq and options are aflutter; Never-Ending Brexit Sends Traders to Distant Market Corners
Bulls are back in the Nasdaq and options are aflutter; Never-Ending Brexit Sends Traders to Distant Market Corners
The Post-Covid Trading Floor Is Here — With Buffet Lunches, No Masks; Turns Out Good Covid Management Is Good Politics and Economics
The Post-Covid Trading Floor Is Here — With Buffet Lunches, No Masks; Turns Out Good Covid Management Is Good Politics and Economics
Investors find new hedges against a US election sell-off; Covid-19 Making a Dangerous Comeback in Most Parts of U.S.
Investors find new hedges against a US election sell-off; Covid-19 Making a Dangerous Comeback in Most Parts of U.S.
My Trip Down the Crypto Rabbit Hole in Search of the DAO Hacker
First Read Blue Skies In a Post-COVID World: Downside Doesn't Look as Deep, SocGen Says By Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News One day the world will recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but what will a recovery look like and when will it take place? Societe...
Chinese Trading Apps Struggle as Millions of Investors Pile In During Rally; The World Can’t Take Much More Shale Gas
First Read So Far, So Good - Updates from Cboe's Options Trading Floor By Matt Raebel - John Lothian News Cboe Global Markets has been reopened for more than two weeks now. How have things been going? According to Cboe, it's been a surprisingly...
FIA IDX-V: ‘No Victory Laps,’ But Systems Clear Amid Pandemic-Infused Volatility
The global pandemic provided European markets with their first major test since the implementation of financial reforms that followed the 2008-2009 financial crisis, a challenge they met despite “stress on all of the markets, all of the time,” said Daniel Maguire, CEO...
Ken Griffin’s Virus Plan Now Includes Emergency Trading Site in Florida; Virus Market Mayhem Makes Insider Info More Valuable Than Ever
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff Not surprisingly, the OCC recorded its highest volume month ever in March, with total cleared contract volume at 670,646,998 contracts, the U.S. equity options industry's highest month...
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...
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