(Reuters) — CME Group Inc., the biggest U.S. futures exchange operator,
reported a better-than-expected second-quarter profit on Thursday, as a
lower tax bill offset a decline in revenue due to...
I believe that liquidity, deep liquidity is the mother's milk of futures
markets. Liquidity is what built our Exchange and our franchise. Liquidity
is our past, present and future. What...
GPS..Global Positioning System. The term has become part of our everyday
lives. There are GPS devices everywhere – in your car, in airplanes, at
the stock exchanges and...
By Tom Luongo
Hat tip to Zerohedge for this story, but it’s not like we couldn’t see
this coming from a mile away since the hatchet job that was done on
Silver...
By TERRY SAVAGE
While politicians are still wrangling over the twin deficit dangers of tax
and spending cuts, an even more dangerous financial crisis is about to hit
the economy: the...
By Paul Vigna and Tom Lauricella
Call it the rise of the machines.
The markets have been erratic lately, for sure. But erratic trading
patterns in four blue-chip stocks on Thursday showed...
By Andrew Blum
Data has a long way to travel across the World Wide Web. It needs a lot of
help getting around.
FORTUNE -- If the Internet is a global phenomenon,...
By Ann Saphir and P.J. Huffstutter
(Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Sr., the founder and CEO at failed futures
brokerage PFGBest who now stands accused of a massive fraud, has a giant...
'Dark Pools' is a fun, intelligent, beach weekend read.
Apart from the obvious Wall Street / HFT focus, the book struck me as a
cross between War Games, The Matrix, and...
* Louis Dreyfus said to illegally corner cotton mkt in 2011
* Case filed by former senior trader at Glencore
* Dreyfus has no immediate comment
By Josephine Mason and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK,...
BY Ken Sweet, Contributor
Apparently it's now kosher to day-trade your retirement account, at least
that is what The Los Angeles Times told investors on Monday.
I didn't know what to...
Increase comes as traders fear end of grain floor
A cadre of largely electronic traders are bidding up seats on the Chicago
Board of Trade, even as trading floor veterans fear...
Financial information company McGraw-Hill Companies and derivatives
marketplace CME Group launched the S&P Dow Jones Indices. S&P Dow Jones
Indices calculates over 830,000 indices, publishes benchmarks that provide
the...
By Harry Wilson, Banking correspondent
The Barclays board was warned less than six months ago that the
relationship between the bank's senior management and the Financial
Services Authority had "broken down"....
By Louise Armitstead
Just when the Committee was getting bogged down in detail, John Mann,
Labour MP for Bassetlaw, cut to the quick. “Can you remind me the three
founding principles...
CMEGROUP CLIENT LETTER SHOWS THAT THE COMEX IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO TRADE
