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OCC Rebranding; Accidental HFT Firm; VIX Curve; Trade Tensions
Observations & Insight Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says investment restrictions will apply to 'all countries that are trying to steal our technology' Evelyn Cheng - CNBC Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that a...
The Spread – Week of 5/14 to 5/18
Mexico, Italy, India, Ireland - we’re all over the world in today’s edition of The Spread. Also in this video, Spencer tries to speak Irish Gaelic. The following are stories referenced in this week's episode: Bloomberg -> Pope’s...
As Stocks Reach New Highs, Investors Abandon Hedges; Bond Market Vol at Multidecade Lows
Observations & Insight Top Options Stories of 2017 Countdown JohnLothianNews.com Listicles are occasionally the butt of jokes - Buzzfeed knows - but what about listideos? With 2017 in the bag, we at JLN thought we'd recap the year in options with a list of the big...
Traders Pile On Long Positions As Nifty Hits Lifetime High; China to Allow Onshore Bond Buying via Hong Kong This Year; Oil at $40 No Problem as U.S. Drillers Snub OPEC With Hedges
Lead Stories Traders Pile On Long Positions As Nifty Hits Lifetime High Agam Vakil - Bloomberg The Nifty 50 index advanced 1.7 percent on Tuesday hitting a new lifetime high of 9,122 on an intraday basis and even managed to close above the 9,000-mark for the first...
John Lothian Newsletter: Banks Raise Fresh Challenges To Exchanges’ Legal Safeguards; Despite Gains, Many Flee Stock Market; Emkay Global’s Bad Orders Trigger Brief Halt On Nifty
Banks are calling out exchanges on legal protections that they say should be rewritten to more closely match the rules for other participants. The stock market may be rallying, but investors are pulling out large chunks of money and looking for other financial...
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How Many Americans Will Ayn Rand Kill? Liberty doesn’t mean freedom to infect other people; EU explores tougher curbs on City hedge fund managers
First Read $9,041/$300,000 (3%) How we think and what we think about Peak6 is about to change By John J. Lothian Peak6 was founded as a proprietary trading firm in Chicago by Matthew N. Hulsizer and Jennifer Just. We might think of Peak6 as the firm with the...
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If Trump’s Election Prospects Were an Option, It Would Be Out-of-the-Money; Bitcoin’s market run-up sends options to all-time high for open interest
If Trump’s Election Prospects Were an Option, It Would Be Out-of-the-Money; Bitcoin’s market run-up sends options to all-time high for open interest
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