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By Louis Lovas |
May 7, 2013
If there’s one thing firms must have a strong grasp on in the financial markets, it’s data. These days, data comes from every direction possible, and it comes quickly.
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By Lu Wang, Whitney Kisling and Eric Lam, Bloomberg |
April 23, 2013
A false report of explosions at the White House that wiped out $136 billion from the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in about two minutes highlighted the risks of the computerized trading that dominates the $18 trillion market.
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By Steve Zwick |
April 1, 2013
With debates raging about high-frequency trading, new regulations and a transaction tax, there is plenty for traders to keep an eye on.
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By Rudy Ruitenberg, Bloomberg |
March 22, 2013
Commodity-future price moves rather than news are increasingly driving trade in oil, sugar and grain futures, which may make finding a fair price less efficient, according to a Swiss study.
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By Jonathan Morgan |
February 27, 2013
A parliamentary committee in Germany approved a bill requiring firms that use the computer-driven strategies to register with banking authorities.
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By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini and Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg |
December 19, 2012
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici introduced a bill designed to force the country’s largest banks to fence off proprietary trading activities in dedicated units.
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By Murray A. Ruggiero Jr. |
November 27, 2012
Analysis techniques come and go, but some methods continue to push the frontier of what is possible. One of these is neural network technology. Has its time finally come?
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By Mary Childs, Bloomberg |
November 7, 2012
Wall Street’s credit-derivatives traders, who before the financial crisis commanded $2 million of annual pay, are being replaced by machines as banks cut costs and heed new regulations.
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By Joshua Gallu and Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
What Mary Schapiro considered her most important task had just run aground, a symbol of the aspirations and missed opportunities of her tenure as head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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By Nina Mehta, Rita Nazareth and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
A quarter century after the worst one-day stock crash in history, measures to prevent a repeat are failing to keep investors from losing confidence in the market.
