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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 20, 2011
It has been nearly three weeks since MF Global Holdings Ltd. filed for bankruptcy and its futures commission merchant and broker/dealer went into liquidation and ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
September 29, 2011
The official statement regarding reports that French bank Societe Generale was selling its stake in futures broker Newedge is that they "do not comment on ...
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By Ginger Szala |
June 10, 2011
After hearing the threat that the CME Group might move out of Illinois due to the new higher corporate tax rate (and now CBOE is making noises ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
June 3, 2011
Just as we began to have serious discussions regarding a Fed exit strategy, the economy gets hit with a series of very poor economic reports ...
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By Michael McFarlin |
April 28, 2011
In today’s metals update, Jon Nadler says he was watching CNBC and Jim “Mad Money” Cramer had remarked that silver has become the new “Amazon.com” ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
April 14, 2011
There has been a controversy brewing for several years on the affect of speculation on markets. It started in earnest in the summer of 2008 ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
March 7, 2011
Ever since the announcement that NYSE Euronext and Deustche Borse were in advanced merger talks people have been speculating on whether CME Group, the other ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
February 15, 2011
Congress has codified in the Dodd-Frank Act the argument by America's Fortune 500 that they cannot "afford" to comply with exchange/clearing margins. Such a regime, ...
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By Michael McFarlin |
February 4, 2011
There has been a lot written to try and explain the banking bailouts, especially the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Recently, a lot has been ...
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By Michael McFarlin |
January 24, 2011
It has to be tough being a high frequency trader (HFT) right now. Not only does nobody outside of the trading world know what you ...
