Christine Birkner

Citadel exits ELX board

By Christine Birkner | October 30, 2008

In a not so shocking move, Citadel has given up its board membership at the Electronic Liquidity Exchange (ELX), according to wire reports. The move ...

Bailout verdict? Not good

By Christine Birkner | February 10, 2009

The verdict for the new bailout plan is in, and it stinks. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced the new $1.5 trillion financial rescue plan this morning, ...

SEC stripped?

By Christine Birkner | May 21, 2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has, to put it mildly, had a not-so-great record of keeping fraud in check over the past few years, and ...

Staying the course

By Christine Birkner | November 4, 2009

In this morning's forex report, Andrew Wilkinson predicted that today's statement by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would "convey an unchanged message in which they ...

And so it begins...

By Christine Birkner | July 22, 2010

Everything we've been hearing from analysts and industry vets indicates that yesterday's signing into law of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is only ...

CFTC gets another slap

By Christine Birkner | July 18, 2008

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), one of the loudest voices in the current battle royale between Congress and what many legislators have decided are evil speculators, ...

Oh Canada

By Christine Birkner | February 12, 2009

Guess which country comes out of the financial crisis looking like the smartest place on earth? It's Canada, eh! Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria wrote this insightful column on ...

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