Yesenia Salcedo

• State Street buys fx firm

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  February 23, 2007

  State Street, a Boston financial services company, will purchase independently-owned, New-York based online foreign exchange trading platform Currenex for approximately $564 million, which will be

• Housing contracts hitting the market

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  February 23, 2007

  Economic reports show that housing prices and sales are falling for the first time in many years. Led by a large decline in the West, sales of U.S. existing homes fell 0.8% in December to a

• Patent fight heats up

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  December 21, 2006

  In what the International Securities Exchange (ISE) is calling an independent action not related to its battle with the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) over index licensing, the ISE filed a

• ISE challenges exclusivity

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  November 15, 2006

  Encouraged by its 2006 court victory allowing it to list options on the SPDR and Diamond exchange traded funds (ETFs), The International Securities Exchange (ISE) filed a complaint in the U.S.

• Best hardware and software for trading

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  November 15, 2006

  Online trading requires an understanding of markets, expertise in fundamental and technical analysis and a dedication to research and education, but those things won’t save you if your equipment is

• Arcades are here to stay

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  October 25, 2006

  As more exchanges rush to get all of their products on the screen, making them available to U.S and international traders, the deepest pools of liquidity anywhere in the financial futures universe

• CME goes direct

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  October 23, 2006

  The CME will offer customer firms the opportunity to connect their co-located trading servers to the CME through high-speed fiber optic connections before year-end. These redundant server connections

• Ben Stein on the markets

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  October 23, 2006

  Ben Stein is a lot of things. He was a lawyer in New Haven, Conn., and Washington, D.C. before becoming a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission. He began his political career as a

• Follow the fundamentals

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  October 23, 2006

  Fundamental analysis encompasses a lot. While technical analysts follow the concept that the historical performance of markets can indicate future performance, fundamental analysis is based on the

• Philly futures to launch

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  September 25, 2006

  PBOT, which toyed with the concept of listing futures on event markets and U.S. Treasuries in the run-up to the relaunch, will begin by listing products on the British Bankers’ Association Libor