- CME chairman eyes volatility rebound
- By Tom Osborn | @04-27-12
- With volumes across the world’s futures markets slumping by between 10% and 25% during the first quarter of 2012, many exchange leaders have begun decrying the impact that persistently low volatility is having on trading in their core derivative products. But on the exchange's first quarter earnings call yesterday, ...
- Wal-Mart employee starts petition for CEO's ouster
- By Brad Dorfman | @04-27-12
- (Reuters) - A deli manager at a Walmart store has started an online petition calling for the resignations of the retailer's chairman and chief executive officer in the wake of allegations that top management squelched an internal probe into bribery allegations. Venazi Luna, who works at the Walmart in ...
- Jon Corzine Is the Original George Zimmerman
- From Internet | @04-25-12
- So the Senate Banking Committee is beginning hearings today on the MF Global scandal, hearings entitled, "The Collapse of MF Global: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications." Apparently the government has already moved to the reflective, introspective, South Park-ian, "You know, I learned something today!" stage in its examination of the ...
- Real investors eclipsed by #HFT Fast Trading
- From Internet | @04-25-12
- Financial Times By Telis Demos in New York Trading by "real" investors is taking up the smallest share of US stock market volumes in over a decade, according to a recent study. The findings highlight how US trading activity is increasingly being fuelled by fast turnover of shares by independent firms and the ...
- Kansas City Slickers
- From Internet | @04-24-12
- Kansas City Slickers I was reading some of the tweets between Cervino Institute and Save The Floor this morning and this caught my attention. Spot pricing in cattle right now is a derivative of futures price discovery and its a huge problem because the futures pricing isn't real. Market pricing is ...
- EU regulators urge caution on fast trading curbs
- By Huw Jones | @04-24-12
- (Reuters) - Tough curbs proposed by European Union lawmakers on ultra-fast trading should be ditched in favour of measures to keep the overall market stable and free of abuse, regulators said on Tuesday. The European Parliament and the bloc's member states are approving a reform of securities trading ...
- Time Is Money, and GPS Spoofing Can Cost It
- By Jonathan Blum | @04-24-12
- Not the Rolex, but the actual seconds marking the passage of time. It turns out the sands of the hourglass that tell us when things such as stocks and bonds get traded can be stolen. Don't believe me? I've spent real time with the man who may have ...
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