Tweed Marijuana Inc., the first publicly traded Canadian producer of the drug, rose from its private placement price as it began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.Tweed rose to $2.52 at 2:07 p.m. in Toronto Friday, up 183% from the issue price of 89 cents based on a private placement on March 7. The shares sank from an opening price […]
This week’s cover story recounts the origins of IEX, a new stock exchange that hopes to level the playing field among investors, let some disinfecting sunshine in on the shadowy world of high-frequency trading and spur Wall Street to follow its lead. But a non-engineering, non-algorithm-writing type might be forgiven for finding it hard to understand the technological and financial […]
Michael Lewis’ new book Flash Boys comes out today. It’s all about the confusing world of high-frequency, algorithmic trading.He was on 60 Minutes last night talking about the subject and promoting his book.In this short segment, he argues that the stock market is rigged.The first 45 seconds are the key part, wherein he explains the mechanism by which high-frequency traders […]
Benchmarks ended lower on Monday dented by escalating tension over Crimea and another drop in the bio-tech stocks for the second straight day. Investors’ confidence further dipped over growing concerns about China’s economy. The day’s encouraging domestic economic numbers failed to avoid the losses.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of […]
DGAP-News: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. /
Dhaka Stock Exchange Selects NASDAQ OMX’s X-stream INET Trading
Technology
23.03.2014 / 23:01
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Bangladesh’s Premier Exchange to Upgrade Trading System to Further Increase
Regional and International Investor Demand
NEW YORK and DHAKA, Bangladesh, 2014-03-23 23:01 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and NASDAQ OMX (Nasdaq:NDAQ) have signed an
agreement for NASDAQ OMX to deliver its industry leading trading […]
PPC/USD Technical Analysis – 23rd March 2014 By Ashton Fraser on March 23, 2014 in Trading Peercoin once again tests the year low, for the third time in as many days, further strengthening the support at 2.607, as shown by the PPC/USD four hour chart below (click to expand): I mentioned in my last Peercoin technical analysis at […]
Here are five charts which offer some insight into the market’s likely direction over the next few weeks.The top three are daily bar charts of my three favorite trend indicators. The short and medium term market trend direction is usually indicated by the position of these averages relative to their 50 day moving averages (green lines). When two of the […]
AP PhotoNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks during a news conference Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, at City Hall in Philadelphia.This morning, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declared war on high-frequency traders, or HFTs, and what he called the “fundamentally unfair – and potentially illegal – situations that give elite groups of traders early access to market-moving information at […]
Moscow ExchangeAll eyes continue to be on Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea.
The world awaits Sunday’s referendum in Crimea where voters will be ask whether they want to join.Meanwhile, Russia’s MICEX index continues to tumble, fall 3.5% today. Year-to-date, it’s down 20.4%.Most experts seem to agree that the referendum is illegal as it is out of line with Ukraine’s constitution.”Moreover, we note […]
Moscow ExchangeAll eyes continue to be on Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea.
The world awaits Sunday’s referendum in Crimea where voters will be asked whether they want to join with Russia.Meanwhile, Russia’s MICEX index continues its slide, falling 1% today. At it’s lowest point today, it was down 5.2%. Year-to-date, it’s down 20.4%.Most experts seem to agree that the referendum is illegal […]
