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  • Mini-Flash Crashes Continue To Fly Under The Radar
  • By Ivy Schmerken  |  @11-29-12
  • High-frequency trading in the U.S. equity markets continues to result in strange price movements, raising concerns about the interaction of technical glitches, fat finger errors and algorithms in the electronic markets. Price moves in U.S. stocks that appear to drop or spike upward for no particular reason, only to ...

  • CME: No plans to shut grains floor trading
  • From Internet  |  @11-29-12
  • The CME Group, the biggest operator of U.S. futures exchanges, has no plans to shut open-outcry trading pits but will not change new price settlement rules for grains despite a lawsuit by a group of traders, its CEO said on Wednesday. "Their lawsuit has zero merit," Phupinder Gill, chief executive of ...

  • CME Group Must Defend Price-Settlement Suit, Judge Rules
  • By Andrew Harris  |  @11-29-12
  • CME Group Inc. (CME), operator of the world’s largest futures market, must defend a lawsuit brought by Chicago Board of Trade brokers and traders challenging a change in how final-trade settlement prices are determined. Cook County Circuit Judge Lee Preston in Chicago today denied in part a defense request ...

  • A head start for HFT; or a downward spiral?
  • From Internet  |  @11-29-12
  • Following a year's worth of negative press and falling profits, high-frequency trading proponents will likely continue to seek workable regulatory solutions in order to help the industry regain its composure. From Boston, Dave Simons reports. As Hurricane Sandy barreled up the Northeast corridor late last month, the impending devastation was such ...

  • Open to abuse
  • From Internet  |  @11-16-12
  • Whether UK wholesale natural gas prices have been manipulated, as was alleged this week, has yet to be established. Notwithstanding, physical energy and commodities markets are so vulnerable that an absence of foul play would be more surprising than its presence. The Libor interest rate scandal opened the public’s eyes to ...

  • A look at Hastert's income
  • From Internet  |  @11-15-12
  • A Tribune investigation has found that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has used his taxpayer-funded office to conduct private business. Federal law allows former House speakers to maintain a government-financed office for up to five years, but they are not permitted to use the office for financial gain. (Nuccio ...


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