First Read FCMs Big And Small Suffer Major Losses On Latest Black Monday Jim Kharouf - JLN On February 5, the historic trading day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,175 points and the S&P 500 plunged 113 points, many customers suffered significant...
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NYSE Arca Suffers Glitch During Closing Auction; High-Frequency Traders Fall on Hard Times; Threat or Opportunity? Blythe Masters Talks Blockchain Jobs Impact
First Read Bits & Pieces By John J. Lothian This morning we present the first of our MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity videos from Stockholm. Peter Fredriksson of Baymarkets is the first up with a story about Stockholm. My phone experienced a series of...
Deutsche Bank cuts ties with 3,400 clients in trading business; A Look Inside Wall Street’s Innovation Labs; OCC Names New CFO, Treasurer, and Chief Compliance Officer
First Read Derivatives luminary Donald Wilson at centre of courtroom battle; Famous derivatives trader has professorial air as he testifies in New York courtroom by: Gregory Meyer in New York - FT An ice storm, an email suggesting regime change and the mechanics of...
John Lothian Newsletter: High-Speed Trading Firm Deleted Some Code by Accident; U.S. securities regulator expands use of powerful software; FXCM says it has been hacked
First Read A Leg To Stand On: Power To Help Rich Hansen To all that care: Power. The power to hurt, the power to ignore, the power to help. It comes in so many forms and is used in so many ways. Many people don't even consider how much power they have in most given...
JLN Financials: Yellen Debut Rattles Markets; European Bonds Decline With Global Peers; Treasury 10-to-30-Year Curve Narrowest Since 2010
First Impressions On Wednesday afternoon, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen gave her first post-meeting press conference. One statement stood apart from the rest, and has been called a “gaffe” by the various media outlets. The supposed mis-statement, which sent...
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GameStop and Bitcoin Renewed a Push to Digitize the Stock Market
First Read $34,126/$300,000 (11.4%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff There is a new Van Gogh exhibit in New York billed as Van Gogh - The Immersive Experience. The site of this exhibit is the former trading floor of the NYMEX. The NYMEX trading floor...
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Big $40 million options trade bets on near-term stock market tumble; London Whale lessons for Credit Suisse and Nomura
Big $40 million options trade bets on near-term stock market tumble; London Whale lessons for Credit Suisse and Nomura
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