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The Day Traders Are Back, Now Playing With Options
By Lisa Beilfuss and Gunjan Banerji
May 11, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
Martin Rogers has been regularly trading options from his mobile phone since last summer, after dabbling in …
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The Fed Fights a New Bank It Fears. The Startup Sees Nothing to Worry About
By Alex Harris and Liz McCormick
April 24, 2019, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve is trying to kill a fledgling bank before the newfangled business takes root, arguing it’s a dangerous …
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Traders Back SOFR Derivatives as Repo Hedge
By Lukas Becker
April 11, 2019, Risk
Barclays and MetLife traders agree that derivatives linked to the U.S. secured overnight financing rate, or SOFR, could be a good hedge for …
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Derivs Volumes Exceed 30 Billion in 2018
By Louisa Chender
April 10, 2019, Global Investor Group
Derivatives trading volumes exceeded the 30 billion mark last year in a turbulent year which saw the return of volatility.
According …
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Michael Purves on the Fed
Michael Purves, Weeden & Co. Chief Global Strategist, talks rates, the yield curve, and volatility.…
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Fed Repo Facility May Fix SOFR’s Image Problem
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
April 2, 2019, Risk
On the last day of 2018, the repo rate exploded, shooting up 147% to an intraday summit of 7.25%, in a market …
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Thinning Liquidity in Key Futures Market Worries Traders
By Alexander Osipovich
March 25, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
A retreat by traders from an important corner of the U.S. financial system has some worried it could make the …
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SEC’s Clayton: Plan for Volatile Markets if There’s a Hard Brexit
By Francine McKenna
March 11, 2019, MarketWatch
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton warned an audience of international bankers in Washington on Monday, “If we have a hard Brexit, …
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Stability Heightens Flash Crash Risks – Research
By Rob Mannix
March 11, 2019, Risk
Flash crashes are most likely to occur in stable markets when latent liquidity converts to real orders too slowly, new research from quants …
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In a Down Market, ETFs Could Make Things Even Worse
By Simon Constable
March 3, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
There’s a potential problem lurking in the financial markets, and it is partly a result of exchange-traded funds.
While ETFs …
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