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SEC adopts consolidated audit trail to boost trade oversight

By Steven Sloan and Nina Mehta, Bloomberg | July 11, 2012

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a rule today that would build a single system to monitor and analyze trading activity across U.S. equity and options markets.
High-frequency trading: Technology and regulation

By Press Release | December 18, 2011

A recent in-depth paper examines the regulatory and technology outlook for high-frequency trading, a catch-all category that mass media applies to modern trading strategies.
SIFMA says industry-wide circuit breakers work

By Press Release | September 28, 2011

The group says that system-wide circuit breakers are a good idea for "today's trading environment."

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Commodities

New for Traders: CBOE launches 10-year Treasury volatility index

A wrap-up of new products and services from around the trading industry.

ETFs

Dealers absorbing junk bonds as ETF demand drops

Wall Street banks are expanding holdings of speculative-grade bonds as prices fall from record highs with investors retreating from exchange-traded funds that buy the debt.