ETF traders can’t win a loser’s game
As reported by April 11, 2012, Steve Beck, the Wall Street Journal PALO ALTO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — In their 1978 song, “What a Fool Believes,” the Doobie Brothers spin a tale of a man who is...
View ArticleBlackRock looks to take on Wall Street
As reported by Dan McCrum and Michael Mackenzie in New York, April 12, 2012 6:50 pm, Financial Times BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager by assets under management, has filed documents and is...
View ArticleNasdaq Wants To Reward Market Making
By Cinthia Murphy from Index Universe Nasdaq, the second-largest U.S. stock exchange, is looking to implement a program that would reward with financial incentives market makers who are willing to “go...
View ArticleGold Under Extreme Pressure to Rise, the Golden Eye of the Debt Hurricane
By Jim Willie CB from The Market Oracle What an incredibly complex confusing and treacherous month. It can be safely said that 80% of the activity is almost totally kept from the public. The financial...
View ArticleFinancial News: Fight To Block High-Frequency Trading Escalates
By Tim Cave and Tom Osborn of Financial News from The Wall Street Journal Trading firms anxious to attract more institutional business are gearing up to create new exchange-type platforms that will...
View ArticleSEC Fails To Monitor More Than Half Of Stock Trading, Former Agency Lawyers Say
The Securities and Exchange Commission does not currently have the ability to fully monitor what, by most accounts, makes up a majority of the stock trading activity in the United States, according to...
View ArticleVerizon Targets Traders With High-Speed Network
By Greg Bensinger from The Wall Street Journal NEW YORK—Verizon Communications Inc. is looking at Wall Street as it attempts to draw new customers with yet another high-speed network. The...
View ArticleQuote MTF venue to block unwanted bids
By Philip Stafford from Trading Technology Quote MTF is to launch a share trading platform that allows users to block unwanted interest amid signs of growing industry momentum to offer investors...
View ArticleAzul Systems Delivers Best-in-Breed Solution for Ultra-Low-Latency Financial...
SUNNYVALE, CA, Apr 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — North American Trading Architecture Summit, NYC — Azul Systems, Inc., the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today announced a...
View ArticleUS stocks jump after strong profits; Spain soothes
By Daniel Wagner from Bloomberg Businessweek Stocks stormed higher Tuesday after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain. The Dow Jones industrial...
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