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’All eyes on broker-dealer internalisation
Last December, the SEC’s Mary Schapiro announced the regulator would be seeking public comment from the start of the year “on a range of issues relating to dark liquidity in all of its forms, as well as the impact of high frequency trading in our markets.”
While the issue of dark pools and electronic communication networks (ECNs) has fetched a fair share of attention in the media,
Biggest stocks to get circuit-breakers, Reuters says
The first tangible exchange response to the Flash Crash may be imminent, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing ‘sources’ on plans to set up circuit-breakers to prevent sudden slides in key stocks.
Flashes (excuse the pun) via Reuters:
What’s in a company name? If it’s ‘China’, it matters
Interesting story from the WSJ on the positively bubblicious effect that adding the word ‘China’ has on a company’s equity:
Dozens of tiny companies have gotten big stock-market boosts simply by adding the word “China”
The UK is an EM trade
Alongside sterling’s weakness and a smattering of M&A, one of the reasons the UK has shown a clean pair of heels to its peers in Europe since the start of the year is its relative internationalisation.
Congressional Alpha
US legislators appear to be rather shrewd stock pickers.
Congressional equity portfolios outperformed the wider market by an average of 55 basis points per month from 1985 to 2001, according to research cited by the Washington Post.
Support the S&P 500
We often get accused of being grave diggers here on FT A-ville. So, at the close of one of the most difficult days for Wall Street in some time (coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the Great Crash of 1929) ,
Presenting Emo
Or the Emotion Mirroring System for Online Traders.
This stylish bracelet and bowl are the fruits of a joint venture between Dutch electronics group Philips and ABN Amro, and were designed to help online traders make better decisions.Here’s how the system works: The Emobowl ™ acts as an emotion mirror,
The crude inventory problem, pictorial edition
As reported earlier on FT Alphaville, the latest US inventory data shows crude stocks are piling up again — a hint that a much anticipated price recovery may not be on the cards just yet.
Sean Corrigan,
A not-so-small rally in smallcaps?
Europe’s small- and mid-cap stocks, together with the wider market, have experienced something of a rally of late.
On Friday, the MSCI Smallcap Index was up 11 per cent from the six-year low reached on March 9th.
Of bonds and stocks and the Weimar Republic
You’d have to be living under a bailout-sized rock not to be aware of the current debate surrounding equities vs corporate bonds.
HSBC has now thrown its hat in the ring, in a 24-page research note entitled “The triumph of the pessimists”,
A real chance to be a trader
Have you wondered what it is like to be a real stock market trader? Have you been secretly memorising ticker symbols? If you happen to live in the UK, here is that once-in-a-lifetime chance: via hereisthecity.com,