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A bear until 2018?
Alan Shaw, a well-known technical analyst, tells Bloomberg that we may be stuck in a bear market until 2018. He based his analysis on the time it took the Dow Jones Industrial average to permanently breach the 100 level, from 1902 to 1927, and its struggle to exceed 1,000 from 1960 to 1985.
Time to tax trades?
In August, a top British financial regulator called for a tax on financial trades to discourage "socially useless" activity. Since then, the idea has gained a following among some economists and pundits who suggest the idea that some forms of speculation do not really create socially useful se
The future of European MTFs
Even as the European multilateral trading facility movement got underway (with lots of fanfare), we urged caution and suggested that there may not ultimately be enough volume to go around. Now that
TD Ameritrade bets online options trading
Are options really becoming a core part of mainstream investing? There are plenty of people who say yes, but you've really got to wonder. My sense is that it remains an arcane niche for motivated
Will NYSE Euronext emerge a big winner?
The NYSE Euronext, fairly or not, has been tagged as an industry "dinosaur" for as long as I can remember. This is despite the fact that it has been an active adopter of new technologies. As the
Another short seller gives up
You would think these bearish markets would have been ideal for short sellers, but this bear market has been rather unique. It has been accompanied by lots of anti-short vitriol and scapegoating, not to mention the actual government-led moves to seriously curtail shorting. So it's frankly a bad ti
Dark pools to fare well in bear market?
We've suggested before that dark pools might face some turbulence in the face of a bear market, that will likely lead to severely reduced trading volume--at some point, anyway. For a harbinger, we
Big discounts for private equity stakes
The private equity fund secondary market has been active as of late. Unfortunately, a bear market has set in for stakes in many funds. In some cases, stakes have traded for as little as 30 cents on the dollar. The Financial Times reports that Cerberus fund holders were likely to have sold at t
Goldman Sachs-owned Sigma X still faring well
We noted recently that the credit crunch may affect how the buy-side sees dark pools. In particular, the TowerGroup suggested in a report that
U.S. exchanges face tough times
There was once a day when we looked to the price of a seat on an exchange as a barometer of the exchange's health. Indeed, Wall Street's health. That seems like a long time ago. Now, we're more likely to simply check out the stock price. Unfortunately, NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX have been tankin
