Off Topic with Irene Aldridge Alpha Pages: You took great issue with Michael Lewis’ claim that the market is “rigged.” Why? Irene Aldridge: On the Michael Lewis topic, I suppose I am most disappointed in the pay-for-play quality of the book. Even the fastest best-selling writers can tell you that they are only capable of writing 15 pages per day, at best. To write a 300-page book, [is] a five-month process, at ...
Bitcoin News Mash-up: Former VISA Executive Joins BitPay; CoinLab Assists Mt. Gox; RBA Views on Cryptocurrencies Former Visa Executive Joins BitPay BitPay , the world leader in offering Biitcoin payment processing, recentky announced that it will appoint former VISA emploee Tim Byun as Head of Legal and Compliance of the company. In his tenure at VISA, Tim was the head of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism department. ...
Senate Panel Probing High-Frequency Trading Talks To 'Flash Boys' A Senate panel probing high-frequency trading on Wall Street has spoken to the people behind IEX, the upstart trading venue prominently featured in Michael Lewis' book Flash Boys, Politico reported on Monday. ...
NZDUSD - Sell The Rumour, Buy The Fact? I expect sideways trading until the rate decision and for 25bps will be added to bring rates to 3.25% This should see NZDUSD break up through 0.852 and target 0.864 and eventually 0.87 highs Fundamentally still strong, I do not expect 'jaw-boning' from RBNZ and for NZDUSD to become bullish after ThursdayTalk of intervention to bring down NZD would have more bearish impact upon NZD than not raising rates0.840 is a pivotal ...
German Finance Minister Schäuble: 'Europe Needs More Self-Confidence' What does Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst have to do with the Ukraine conflict? More than you might think, explains German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in a SPIEGEL interview. It demonstrates the EU's greatest strengths. SPIEGEL: Mr. Schäuble, are you familiar with the name Conchita Wurst? Schäuble: That was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. But I haven't heard ...
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