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U.S. Stocks Trading Flat Ahead of Fed Press Conference
The Wall Street Journal – By Jonathan Cheng – June 20, 2012 U.S. stocks traded roughly flat ahead of the Federal Reserve’s press conference, giving a muted response to the central bank’s efforts to...
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A Bump At Speed Trading Hearing
The Wall Street Journal – By Scott Patterson, Jacob Bunge, and Jenny Strasberg - June 20, 2012 Conflict erupted among some of Wall Street’s heaviest hitters over a proposed definition of...
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SAC’s Cohen Said to Be Deposed in SEC Trading Probe
Bloomberg News – By Joshua Gallu and Saijel Kishan – June 21, 2012 Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire founder of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP, is facing renewed scrutiny from U.S. regulators over...
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CFTC Panel Urges Broad Definition of High-Frequency Trading
Bloomberg News – By Silla Brush – June 21, 2012 U.S. financial regulators should adopt a broad definition of high-frequency trading to prevent “regulatory arbitrage,” according to an advisory committee...
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BlackRock Discloses Doll’s Models Not All His Own
Reuters – By Jessica Toonkel – June 21, 2012 (Reuters) – In January, BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) made a significant, but easy-to-miss change in the fund literature for three of its mutual funds. In previous...
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BlueMountain Said to Help Unwind JPMorgan’s Whale Trades
Bloomberg News – By Mary Childs, Stephanie Ruhle and Shannon D. Harrington – June 21, 2012 A hedge fund run by a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) executive who helped create the credit-...
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Wash Trading by High-Frequency Firms Said to Face U.S. Scrutiny
Bloomberg News – By Joshua Gallu and Silla Brush – June 22, 2012 High-frequency trading firms are drawing scrutiny from U.S. regulators seeking evidence that they may be distorting market prices by...
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Top Traders Lured to Growing Commodities Merchants
Reuters – June 22, 2012 LONDON – The landscape is changing for commodities merchants as global economic strength swings east, encouraging them to diversify into new products and increase scale while...
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Knight Capital Mess Aside, High Frequency Trading Is Here To Stay
“The apparent trading error by Knight Capital Group…reflects the type of event that can raise concerns for investors about our nation’s equity markets,” said SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro in a statement...
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High-Frequency Trading Expert to Bring Unique Speed Trading Workshop to Shanghai
The Speed Traders unveiled dates today for Edgar Perez’s full-day seminars, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in...
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