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Schneiderman Endorses Batch Auctions – Business Insider

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 […]

SEC Employees Are Freakishly Good Stock Traders – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsTwo academics from the University of Virgina got a hold of the trading records of SEC employees — then they built a mock hedge fund to see how it would do. The results are all in a paper presetned at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The academics, Emory University professor Shivaram Rajgopal and Georgia State University accounting PhD candidate Roger […]

The Growth Paradox: Past Economic Growth Does Not Predict …

Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesEMERGING stockmarkets go in and out of fashion. They were battered during the Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s, but then recovered to offer double-digit annual returns in the first decade of the 21st century. Since 2010, however, they have reverted to underperforming their developed-country rivals.The arguments in favour of investing in emerging markets are the […]