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"This Ain't Rocket Science Folks" - Fundamentals Matter (And Will Always Matter)
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,Challenge For the Market Pros, CEOs and PhDs...Read and Answer the Last SentenceNow we’ve all heard a lot of statistics that depict both a good and...
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CLSA: "The Bank Of Japan Has Nationalized The Japanese Stock Market"
Following the recent announcement by the BOJ that it would double its ETF purchases to ¥6 trillion, or $58 billion, up from the current ¥3.3 trillion, which is the equivalent to the Fed purchasing $580...
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Norway's Largest Bank Is Going Long VIX For The First Time: "We See Much More...
Add one more brick to the "wall of worry."Days after reporting that the Norwegian government, pressured by the low oil price while forced to cover government expenses, has withdrawn money from the...
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"No Reason" Why ECB Shouldn't Buy Stocks: Peterson Institute
Last week, we highlighted a troubling Reuters article, which we classified as a quiet "trial balloon" to set the stage for an ECB launch of stock purchases. As Reuters put it, the ECB may soon be...
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IEX Set To Revolutionize Gold Trading With Blockchain-Based Exchange
The IEX Group, which shocked market participants on August 19 when it became the first official exchange to offer a mechanism to bypass HFT predatory algos and frontrunning against all odds, including...
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The SEC's Former Top "HFT Expert" Joins HFT Titan Citadel
Last April, we commented on the most blatant (pre) revolving door we had ever seen at the SEC (and there have been many): the departure of the SEC's head HFT investigator, Gregg Berman, who during his...
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The "Deplorables" - Who We Are And What We Want
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,In numerous articles over the past several years I have made observations on a rule of life that I strictly adhere to: that all social conflicts can be...
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Janet Yellen On The Fed Buying Stocks: "Maybe In The Future, Down The Line..."
There was an interesting exchange during Janet Yellen's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday morning, when South Carolina Republican Mick Mulvaney asked Yellen if the...
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JPMorgan Joins Yellen and Summers In Hinting The Fed May Buy Stocks Next
During her latest testimony in Congress, when asked by rep Mick Mulvaney if the Fed has considered buying equities, Janet Yellen had a cryptic, yet open to interpretation answer: "the Federal Reserve...
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ALERT: Markets to implode, only FX will be left
Warning to investors - traditional markets are flawed. Â In one of many hypothetical futures, not so far in the future, FX may be the only game in town. Â As we explain in Splitting Pennies -...
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"Flash Crash Mastermind" Navinder Sarao To Be Extradited To The US, Faces Up...
In one of the most ridiculous perversions of justice, last April the SEC flipped its official narrative over the May 2010 flash crash, when it moved away from its closely held "explanation" that the...
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Biggest US Discount Brokerage TD Ameritrade Buys Scottrade For $4 Billion
The previously noted surge in Monday merger announcements, which seek to take advantage of still cheap credit before yields rise, got its latest entrant moments ago when discount brokerage TD...
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HFT Legend Exits The Business: "It's Harder To Make Money"
To those who have followed the rise and fall of the HFT industry, and certainly the far more dramatic rise and fall of one former Goldman trader and programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, the names Misha...
View ArticleFrontrunning: November 16
U.S. stock futures slip as post-election rally slows (Reuters)Pence Ousts Lobbyists From Transition Team (WSJ)Infighting hits Trump’s foreign policy transition (FT)Trump’s Win and Transition Turmoil...
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With Assad On Verge Of Historic Victory, Syrian Rebels Request A Ceasefire
After nearly six years, Syria's civil war started under Hillary Clinton's watch in March 2011 during the Arab Spring protest, is finally coming to an end.The battle for one of the most contested Syrian...
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Islamic State Recaptures Palmyra After Blitz Onslaught Leaves Russia With No...
Just as the Assad regime (with Russian support) is about to retake Aleppo in a critical offensive, one which would shift the momentum of the nearly 6-year-long Syrian proxy war entirely to the benefit...
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Exposing The "Mystery" Of Last Week's "Massive" E-Mini Trade
Last Wednesday we reported that between 13:21:14 and 13:21:15 ET, an interval of less than two seconds, something snapped in the market, as both E-mini futures...... and the SPY ETF exploded in volume...
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Another Hedge Fund Casualty: Ardmore Shuts Down Less Than A Year After Launching
In what may be the latest ironic twist for the hedge fund industry, with stocks soaring few if any participants of the beleaguered "2 and 20" smart money community have been able once again to take...
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The Bank of Japan Was The Top Buyer Of Japanese Stocks In 2016
When it comes to propping up the stock market in the US, the Federal Reserve does so with a certain degree of nuance, keeping at least one layer of disintermediation between itself and the market,...
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Dan Loeb Will Pay More Than $2 Million To His New 32-Year-Old Head Quant
It was some time back in 2009 when we first predicted that in a world in which central banks have taken away the "fun" from fundamental analysis (having effectively nationalized capital "markets"),...
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