Read MoreMark Cuban rips high-frequency trading This is a disaster for the U.S. capital markets. It only weakens and threatens the very existence of a strong, vibrant, robust capital market. It causes mispricing in stocks and clear frustration among asset managers. You have to ask: Why do we need 90+ venues to trade stocks? Unlike […]
Of all the weekly reports that come through its the trio of the Citi, UBS and AG reports that I am drawn to.I like the CS macro pulse and the GS weekly tech also the Barcap tech. There are many runners up in terms of analysis but top trio are standouts in my view.Later today the Swiss team’s regular but […]
The music was bumping and the drinks were flowing at a dimly lit San Francisco nightclub on a spring evening in 2009. But two voices rose above the sound of the music.You wouldn’t think that big data would be the topic of conversation on this evening, but that’s the subject that brought Data Collective founders Matt Ocko and Zack Bogue […]
All that complexity is offset in Lewis’s telling by a collection of Hollywood-ready characters. There’s Brad Katsuyama, a kind of anti-Jordan Belfort, who first notices that something weird is happening with his trades and sets out to discover the problem—and, in a very un-Wall Street move—help others protect themselves from it. There’s Ronan Ryan, “the world’s expert at helping the […]
Interesting Stock Market JunctureStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Mar 29, 2014 – 06:09 PM GMTBy: Tony_Caldaro
The market started the week opening higher, but then took on the character that had started on expiration Friday: sell growth stocks after the opening. During the week the market had three gap up openings, no gap downs, and still ended […]
Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner included the founding dates for some of the world’s stock markets in a recent note to clients.In case you didn’t, the stock market wasn’t born on Wall Street.Morgan Stanley
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Turmoil on the Russia-Ukraine border has investors and traders running various scenarios, including worst-case scenarios.Not that anyone is saying this is likely today, but a shutdown of the Russian stock market isn’t unprecedented.”Russia’s first recorded stock market came into existence in 1810 but shut down in July 1914 at the start of World War I,” noted Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner. […]
Wall Street doesn’t like what it sees. Facebook’s stock price (NASDAQ:FB) is dropping in after-hours trading after the company announced its purchase of virtual reality startup Oculus Rift. The stock, which closed up on the day, is now under its open price of $64.25, resulting in a loss of $1.5 – $1.8 billion market cap.The stock price slid considerably more […]
A recent Intel survey found that 82 percent of CIOs agree that big data solutions would improve business. Big data analytics is a top priority for businesses that want to tap into the hidden potential of their big data. Now they can. Intel partnered with several ISVs to ensure that data-analytics solutions fully harness the scalability, performance and reliability of the […]
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the financial markets, the world economy, the eurozone and business.Markets took the news that US interest rates could rises sooner than expected in their stride yesterday. New Fed chief Janet Yellen caught markets on the hop when she indicated that the first hike could come as early as March 2015. But […]
