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PRESENTING: The 10 most important stock market themes for the …

Myles Udland

Jun. 1, 2015, 7:00 PM
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jmcangel / flickrWhen you’re reading a book on the beach this summer, don’t forget to keep an eye on these 10 big market themes.Summer is almost here, and for investors June marks the final month of the second quarter: we are almost halfway done with 2015. Right now the big questions surrounding markets are how the […]

Summary of White House Big Data Privacy Report: 'Give Feds More …

Credit: JD Hancock / photo on flickrIn January, the Obama
administration put together a “working group” to analyze how huge
swaths of Americans’ data are being gathered and stored and what
sort of privacy issues need to be addressed. The group’s report was
just released this week.Before you ask: No, it’s not about the National Security Agency
(NSA) sweeping up huge amounts of metadata from […]

EU lawmakers back high-frequency trade curbs | Financial Post

High-frequency traders in the European Union are set to face some of the toughest rules in the world, as legislators backed rules that they said would curb volatility and make markets safer.The limits include standards meant to keep the price increment for securities from being too small, mandatory tests of trading algorithms and requirements that market makers provide liquidity for […]