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Chinese Currency Going Global? (CME, ICE)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 7:29 am

At a conference in Singapore, the CEO of the London Metals Exchange (LME), the world hub for metals trading, said that LME is working on a 2-year project to create ...
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BATS Volume Gains Despite IPO SNAFU

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 8:40 am

BATS Global Markets was the worst of the worst of botched initial public offerings in recent financial history.  How bad is it when an exchange cannot adequately handle its own ...
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NASDAQ Joins NYSE & CME In Paying Dividends, Finally (NDAQ, NYX, CME, CBOE, ICE)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 6:55 am

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is finally going to start paying out a cash dividend to its shareholders.  The company announced its plans to initiate a quarterly cash ...
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Facebook Opts For NASDAQ IPO & Listing Over NYSE (FB, NDAQ, NYX)

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 2:09 pm

CNBC has reported that Facebook is choosing to list on the NASDAQ rather than on the NYSE.  The move seems a better fit considering the history of technology and internet ...
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BATS Supports But Demotes CEO After IPO SNAFU

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 8:48 am

BATS Global Markets, Inc. sent out a press release last night to the media that sounds as though it is a passing of a vote of confidence.  It is actually ...
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BATS IPO To Heat Up Public Exchange Competition (NYX, NDAQ, CBOE)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 10:41 am

NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX), NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) are all about to have yet one more public exchange competing against them for the ...
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Teva Tries NASDAQ & NYSE Exchange Hat Trick (TEVA)

Posted: March 21, 2012 at 9:47 am

This is obnoxious when companies do this.  Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is trying the hat trick where it changes exchange listings.  Now the company plans to transfer the ...
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Bracing For BATS IPO This Week (BATS, NYX, NDAQ, CBOE)

Posted: March 20, 2012 at 12:08 pm

A new exchange is coming to the world of public stock and financial market exchanges this week.  The initial public offering for BATS Global Markets is going to be highly ...
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SecondMarket Launches ‘The Facebook Fund’ To Buy Shares Before IPO (FB, GSVC)

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 9:13 am

SecondMarket is taking a new approach to allowing investors to buy into Facebook ahead of the upcoming IPO, and it is quite different from any efforts to date from this ...
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Could a Transaction Tax Be Part of European Debt Solution?

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 1:05 pm

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has gotten agreement from Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, for a tax on financial transactions. The reaction from Britain, Europe’s financial center, is decidedly chilly. The US ...
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SEC Seeks To Change Market Circuit Breakers

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the national securities exchanges and FINRA are filing proposals in a move to revise the current stock market circuit breakers in an ...
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Can NASDAQ Create More Interest in Water Investing? (GE, MMM, AWK, NLC, ECL, ITT, INSU, TTEK, PHO, PIO, FIW, CGW)

Posted: July 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm

There is a paradox when it comes to investing... All long-term portfolios need to have exposure to water investments, yet the reality is that investing in water is just not ...
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Public Exchange Envy… BATS Files For IPO (NYX, NDAQ, CME, CBOE, ICE, BATS, BAC, C, CS, DB, JPM, MS)

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 7:56 am

The U.S. is about to get another electronic exchange listed as a public stock.  BATS Global Markets, Inc. wants to come public and has just filed for an initial public ...
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Why Stop At A Second Stimulus?

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 10:47 am

Laura Tyson, who began arguing for second stimulus six months after the $787 billion plan was passed, is making her case again. It may be too little too late. Writing ...
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NASDAQ Cancels Trades On 296 Companies

Posted: May 7, 2010 at 5:08 am

Acknowledging that there may have been human error in the very sharp but temporary drop in stock prices yesterday, the NASDAQ has canceled trades on dozens of stocks that were made ...
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