(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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Golden Cross May Indicate Dollar Index Gain
February 18th, 2010
Before You Invest (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.
SEC Probing High – Frequency Strategies
December 9th, 2009
Before You Invest 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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