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A New Mini Flash Crash from Fake AP Tweet, Twitter Hack Attack

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 1:32 pm

Hack attacks continue with the DJIA and S&P 500 Index suddenly losing all of their gains on the day only to briefly recover. The result came from a hack of ...
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Knight Capital’s Fat-Finger Trading Problems

Posted: August 1, 2012 at 11:06 am

Knight Capital Group (NYSE: KCG) may have just been the latest firm to create trading issues that were somewhat akin to the Flash Crash of 2010, or at least akin ...
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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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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/8/2011) Groupon Members, AIG Sues Bank Of America

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 8:25 am

Updated throughout the day. Groupon doubled subscribers this year to 115 million. It will also drop a controversial accounting method used in its IPO documents (Reuters) GDF-Suez may sell 30% ...
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Trading Stocks in One-Billionth of a Second

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 6:09 pm

The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined.  Forget a few hundred automated ...
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Five Stocks That Will Cheer The Flash Crash Anniversary Passage (ACN, AAPL, CNP, EXC, PG)

Posted: May 5, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Friday, May 6, 2011 will mark the one-year anniversary of the 2010 Flash Crash.  The Flash Crash has been blamed on many things and many investors still dispute the true ...
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10 Reasons To Worry That Stocks Will Fall 10%

Posted: May 5, 2011 at 6:15 am

The recent weakness in stocks could just be the start of what to expect in the weeks ahead.  It is early May and already we have seen the Dow Jones ...
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Media Digest 11/9/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 9, 2010 at 4:01 am

China warned that QE2 could destabilize the global economy. (Reuters) Aol (NYSE: AOL) has tapped Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) to aid it in its pursuit of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). ...
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Investors Nervous About The Markets Head For The Exits

Posted: September 14, 2010 at 5:20 am

Investors, worried about market volatility, no longer view the purchase and sales of stocks as an even playing field, and are acting accordingly. Events like the "flash crash" have made ...
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