By Matthew Philips
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...
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...
U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm
Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in
their toughening stance on market malfeasance which is being...
By Pauline Skypala
High-frequency traders and commodity speculators are bad for markets,
according to Finance Watch, which is backing a proposed clampdown on such
market participants across Europe under the revised...
By Philip Stafford in London
Two telecom companies have claimed they will build the fastest trading
connection between London and New York, a development that highlights
growing demand from investors for...
By Ben Moshinsky
The rise of algorithmic trading may cause markets to be more volatile and
securities to be mispriced, Adair Turner, chairman of the U.K.'s Financial
Services Authority will tell...
It never was supposed to be this fast and furious.
When the first Wall Street traders hooked up their own personal
computers (most likely IBM PCs or early IBM clones from Compaq),...
By David Sheppard and Jonathan Stempel
U.S. regulators claimed their first victory in a four-year old effort to
crack down on oil market manipulation on Thursday, announcing a $14 million
settlement...
By David Sheppard
U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to dampen the influence of oil
speculators by having regulators set trading margins could backfire,
potentially making prices even more volatile and leaving...
By D.M. Levine
Mark Gorton is sitting in the Zen garden on the roof of his office in
downtown Manhattan, squinting into the sunlight and telling me he's not
evil.
"If you...
By Philip Stafford in London and Telis Demos in New York
High-speed trading is set to expand into the European government bond
trading market after MTS, the region's dominant trading venue...
Jan 3 2012 Asia is no stranger to high-frequency trading but Steve Edge,
principal of Asiaetrading.com, a market structures, news and commentary
portal, says transaction costs are still too...
Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, said on
Tuesday that large, privately negotiated trades that sparked a protest in
CME Group's Eurodollar options are critical to the...
By Meera Louis
Jobs Data Simultaneous Release Jeopardized Under Curbs
The U.S. Department of Labor said it can't promise journalists they will be
able to transmit market-sensitive economic releases at exactly the...
Obama State Department set to cede oil-rich Alaska islands to Russia
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 the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn't seem to care.