Lead Stories High-frequency traders adjust to overcapacity and leaner times Nicole Bullock - Financial Times Recalling the years around the financial crisis may still bring a shudder to many on Wall Street, but for high-speed traders 2008-2009 were pay dirt. The...
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Smart Money, Smart Women: What Successful Women Say About The Possibilities
Women have come a long way in the financial sphere. As recently as 1989, when Ilyce Glink, the founder and president of Think Glink Media, went with her husband to a bank to apply for a mortgage, the banker they spoke with - a woman - told her there was no need for...
JLN Options: Options Week in Review March 7, 2013
Bank of America bought 150,000 shares of Constellation Brands, a wine and beer seller, a few days before Constellation announced an acquisition in which the bank was the lead lender, The Wall Street Journal reported. The bank made a big profit from the trade, which...
JLN Options: Options Week in Review Feb. 21, 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the FBI began investigating suspicious options trading that occurred just before Berkshire Hathaway announced a $23 billion acquisition of H.J. Heinz Co. David Weidner pointed out in The Wall Street Journal that...
JLN Options: Options Week in Review Jan. 17, 2013
The CBOE plans to revamp its 15-member board to make it more independent, in line with its rivals NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX and ICE, whose board members have no direct ties to trading firms. The restructuring is part of the exchange's response to an SEC investigation...
John Lothian Newsletter: SEC Options Cases Highlight CBOE Regulation; HKEx to offer renminbi futures; Tokyo Trading Glitch Thaws Resistance to Alternative Platforms
As the SEC takes additional action against broker OptionsXpress, the CBOE finds itself in the middle of a much closer look at how it supervises its members. The Hong Kong Exchange announces plans to issue futures contracts for trading the Chinese yuan. Fault and...
Patently Different World
Back in 2004 before I first broke the Trading Technologies (TT) MD Trader patent story in this newsletter, I tried to give the story away to a larger news organization with the depth and reputation I thought could handle it. I thought it was too big of a story for a...
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London’s Centuries-Old Insurance Market Investigates Its Slavery Role
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VIX Spikes to Highest Since June With Economy Threat Growing; Wall Street joins global stock sell-off triggered by rising Covid worries
VIX Spikes to Highest Since June With Economy Threat Growing; Wall Street joins global stock sell-off triggered by rising Covid worries
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