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Options Trading
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Schwab to buy options brokerage
Given the well-publicized woes of Charles Schwab, you might be forgiven if you did not think the company had $1 billion deal in it. But it has announced an eye-catching merger with optionsXpress, which will position Schwab much better in the options market.
The deal will generate about $80 mil
Flash orders in the options market?
We've noted often that innovations in the equities market have migrated over to the options market in important ways, decimalization, alternative trading venues, for example. Are we seeing it again?
Options market to follow equities to fragmentation?
We've noted before that the development of the options market has mimicked, in key ways, the development of the equities market. In both cases, key drivers recently have been decimalization, tighter regulation, more electronic trading, greater competition at the exchange level and, of course, soar
