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  • Jackson Hole May Disappoint Investors Primed for Stimulus
  • By Joshua Zumbrun  |  @08-28-12
  • Bernanke's Own Words on U.S. Economy, Fed Policy
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke -- returning this week to the scene of a 2010 speech that foreshadowed a second round of quantitative easing -- probably will disappoint investors looking for him to signal new stimulus.

  • A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down
  • From Internet  |  @08-28-12
  • By David Kestenbaum
    Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesThomas Peterffy, shown here in 2010
    First, three stories from Thomas Peterffy's life as a trader: Story #1: When Peterffy was a kid growing up in communist Hungary in the 1950s his buddy went to Austria and brought back a pack of Juicy Fruit gum. Peterffy bought ...


  • "Investing not betting"download Finance Watch's position paper on MiFID 2
  • From Internet  |  @08-27-12
  • 24 April 2012: Finance Watch, the Brussels-based public interest advocacy group, today publishes a position paper "Investing not betting" on MiFID 2, the EU's revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. The paper calls on the EU to maintain a tough stance on: • high frequency trading, which damages traditional investors' trust in ...

  • Former CBOT chairman Cunningham 'great mentor' to traders
  • From Internet  |  @08-21-12
  • Story ImageThomas P. Cunningham was chairman of the CBOT in 1983 and 1984.
    Thomas Cunningham's career at the Chicago Board of Trade went back to the days when the exchange was more like a club or a ward office. The culture was mostly Irish. If you had a connection, ...

  • China inflation around the corner?
  • From Internet  |  @08-21-12
  • In last night's very disapponting data release from China there was one notable piece of data: CPI dropped to a 30-some month low, yet it came above the expected level of 1.7%, instead printing at 1.8%, in the process dousing many hopes that the PBOC would immediately succumb to even ...

  • Good Knight HFT
  • From Internet  |  @08-20-12
  • The futile debate between market fundamentalists and those who claim you can't stop "progress" on the one hand, and proponents of tighter government regulation and oversight on the other, continues on with no resolution in sight. From too-big-to-fail banks, a second front is now opening -- this one focused on ...

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