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Dead Calm as Fed Vows No Action; No-Deal Brexit Possibility Comes Alive; Short and Distort?
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Lead StoriesDead calm in markets unsettles Wall Street as Fed vows no actionPeter Wells and Robin Wigglesworth - Financial Times (SUBSCRIPTION)Volatility across several major asset classes has...
Volatility Goes AWOL; Corporate Currency Hedging; Good Year for Wall St. Traders
Observations & Insight Timely Capital Relief Comments From Fed Chair Powell or: The Options Market Stability Act Was On TV! Spencer Doar - JLN During Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony on Capitol Hill, Rep. Randy...
Potential CME-NEX Deal Is Full of History, Dilemma, Risk and Reward
For many years, the Chicago Board of Trade had cash treasuries envy, wanting to add the trading of cash treasury bonds and notes to its offerings. For many years, the CME has had cash currency trading envy. Both exchanges, now part...
Interest (in) rates: CME’s suite soars
Despite historical seasonality trends pointing to decreased trading activity in summer months, CME’s interest rate complex has been red hot. In the past month, CME Group has experienced records in a variety of rate-related products in terms of...
Why Commodity-Index Investing May Be Futile; A Foreign Threat to U.S. Treasuries That Dwarfs Fed’s Debt Hoard; Barclays’s Staley Probed for Trying to Unmask Whistle-Blower
First Read How Middle-Class America Got Fleeced By Noah Smith - Bloomberg If you're a middle-class American baby boomer or Gen Xer, you might have spent much of the past decade wondering what went wrong. If you're a boomer, there's a good chance you're still working...
UK must wake up to risks of LSE/Deutsche Börse exchange deal; Drop the Volcker rule and keep what works; America’s Biggest Creditors Dump Treasuries in Warning to Trump
First Read Maker or Taker? By John J. Lothian "Maker - Taker" is a market model that rewards market participants for offering liquidity - "making" - and penalizes them for "taking" market liquidity. Many makers are also takers. It is the way of the markets, and the...
The New Bond: KCG’s Dan Coleman Looks To Plug Exchange Model Into US Treasury Market, and How It Might Just Succeed
There are few markets, if any, that garner attention like the US Treasury market. And there are few markets as ripe for disruption as the US Treasury market. Earlier this month, at the WFE Annual Meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, KCG's CEO Daniel Coleman outlined his...
Using the Blockchain to Trade Gold, Via a 1,000-Year-Old Institution; Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires; Humble soyabean becomes a ‘widow-maker’ for agriculture traders
First Read The New Bond: KCG's Dan Coleman Looks To Plug Exchange Model Into US Treasury Market, and How It Might Just Succeed Jim Kharouf - JLN There are few markets, if any, that garner attention like the US Treasury market. And there are few markets as ripe for...
Direct Match’s Jim Greco and William O’Brien Talk Treasuries – Traded Electronically
Direct Match is a FINRA-registered broker dealer that recently announced plans to offer an all-to-all electronic trading platform for US Treasuries later this year - the first of its kind. JLN spoke with Jim Greco, the company's CEO and co-founder, and William...
JLN Options: Investors sue to block Heinz takeover
SPX vs. VIX Trailing 30 Days(click for larger image)Chart and data provided by LivevolNew Restoring Customer Confidence VideoThe final scheduled video in our Restoring Customer Confidence series deals with electronic confirmations of customer funds. As the industry...
JLN Options: First US ETF celebrates 20th birthday
LEAD STORIESFirst US ETF celebrates 20th birthdayBy Chris FloodThe first US listed exchange traded fund marked its 20th birthday on Tuesday having developed into into a $125bn giant and becoming one of the world’s most widely traded securities over the past two...
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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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