Posts Tagged ‘Term Investors’

SEC May Put Codes on Biggest Traders, Cap Option Fees

(Bloomberg) — The Securities and Exchange Commission backed proposals today that would assign identification codes to monitor the largest stock traders and impose a limit on fees for options transactions.Commissioners voted 5-0 in favor of a program that would require firms that buy and sell at least 2 million shares a day to report their identity to regulators.

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Bull Market Believers

Three money managers who called the turn in March 2009 see huge gains ahead; a fourth dissentsVeteran money manager Laszlo Birinyi will never forget the moment a year ago when the last ounce of confidence disappeared. New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini and many other prominent pundits were convinced the economy was in free fall, and that the consequences for the stock market would be dire.

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Golden Cross May Indicate Dollar Index Gain

(Bloomberg) — A “golden cross” of two moving price averages of the Dollar Index for the first time in 18 months indicates that the rally in the greenback may accelerate, Auerbach Grayson & Co. and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. say.The index, used by IntercontinentalExchange Inc.

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SEC Probing High – Frequency Strategies

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will likely seek public input on so-called high-frequency trading strategies, and whether traders using them gain any special advantages by placing quick computers next to exchanges.High-frequency trading, which accounts for some 60 percent of U.S.

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