As financial markets have rapidly grown in size and complexity, regulators have faced an increasingly difficult task of investigating allegations of fraud and understanding the root causes of anomalous events such as the "flash crash" of May 6.
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Ever wonder what's really going on in the economy? The answers are here. This is a quality 112 page report on the impending economic crisis that threatens to wipe out our very way of life, as well as how to shelter your family from the storm.
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Credit Suisse, the global investment bank, recently announced that it will be expanding its comprehensive Onyx platform to offer outright electronic trading of US Cash Equities.
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The UK Government is planning to undertake a wide-ranging re view of high-frequency trading (HFT) and algorithmic trading, to determine how this kind of...
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If you follow stocks and shares at all, you will be fully aware of the fact that prices can go down as well as up. But in the history of the US stock market, nothing had ever happened quite like the 6th May Flash Crash when, during a crazy twenty-minute p
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Anyone who watches the stock markets will be only too aware of the events of May 6th this year (2010), when the US equities markets plunged by about ten percent in as many minutes, then quickly rebounded. This has now come to be known as the "Flash Crash
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Since the so-called Flash Crash of the 6th May, controversy has been growing around the practice of High-Frequency Trading (HFT). Many are blaming the activities of high frequency traders for the rapid 10% fall and subsequent rally in the stock market on
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