- "Job One"
- From Internet | @04-24-12
- Statement of Commissioner Bart Chilton Regarding MF Global and Customer Protection On the eve of the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on MF Global, it's an appropriate time to reiterate my position on "job one" for the CFTC on consumer fund oversight. We need a belt and suspenders approach to customer protection ...
- Revolving Door: From Top Futures Regulator to Top Futures Lobbyist
- From Internet | @01-16-12
- While America focused on New Hampshire, a classic example of revolving-door politics took place in Washington, going almost completely unnoticed. It's a move that ranks up there with the hire of Louisiana congressman Billy Tauzin to head the pharmaceutical lobbying conglomerate PhRMA -- at a salary of over $2 million ...
- Financial Sense Politics, Markets, and People: On a Collision Course
- By Joe Duerte | @04-24-12
- The world is clearly on a collision path, ideologically, economically, and philosophically. And the markets are starting to reflect this. The story of the weekend is Wal-Mart's bribery scandal. But Europe is about to head on another down leg as Spain's economy is shrinking and the European Central Bank ...
- BOE's Andy Haldane Channels Zero Hedge, Reveals The Liquidity Mirage And The Collateral Crunch
- From Internet | @04-24-12
- It's not as if this should come as a major surprise to ZeroHedge readers, but to hear officials from the Bank of England pointing out the sub-optimal nature of the financial system's information asymmetries is refreshing. Be it via any one of Andrew Haldane's three so-called arms-races (Returns - the ...
- Obama State Department set to cede oil-rich Alaska islands to Russia
- From Internet | @04-24-12
- Obama's State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin. … The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get ...
- business week: They really are going to NUKE NEMO for 5.2 Milliseconds
- By Matthew Philips | @04-24-12
- High-Speed Trading: My Laser Is Faster Than Your Laser (A previous version of this story suggested the new cable had achieved an execution time faster than 60 milliseconds. That speed is expected later in 2012.) A few weeks ago I wrote about Project Express, a new fiber-optic cable being built ...
- WSJ: Financial News: Trade Sizes Continue To ATOMISED
- From Internet | @04-24-12
- The average size of a trade in FTSE 100 stocks executed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE.LN) fell nearly 20% between April 2011 and January this year, according to research by Morgan Stanley, in a further sign of how the rise and rise of highly automated trading is changing the ...
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