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Rising From the Rubble: New and expanding growthis sparking a trading revival in San...
...Harkness. "Some of the stocks in our universe have made some very rapid climbs in the last month or so." Indeed, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index recently was up for...
Know Thy Costs
...by CS First Boston. Both execs have several years of quantitative trading and research under their belts. Sargent began his career at Northern Trust with responsibilities for index funds. He...
More Pain, How Much?
...is the quintessential sentiment indicator. It can be associated with specific stocks, industry groups, sectors, markets and index derivatives. Short sellers, because they must buy back the stock they've sold...
The Young Masters of Risk: In Bala Cynwyd, a youthful band of traders unwraps...
...in 1981.) The firm runs a large program trading operation, has a New York Stock Exchange specialist unit and floor brokerage, and is the largest equity index trader in the...
A Star Is Reborn: The Bank of New York’s securities group has been recreated...
...Street Global Markets, Frank Russell Securities and Morgan Stanley. All five are colossal program traders. BGI and State Street are the world's largest managers of index funds. Morgan Stanley and...
The Kissin’ Cousins of Clearance and Settlement
...the U.S. "We tend to be mostly a cross-border network," Slone said. "Europeans are natural cross-border traders." Customers are hedge funds, index arbitrageurs, traditional money managers, broker dealers and banks....
A Wall Street Gold Rush
...Gold Index, got to somewhere around 150. And that is pretty much the way, traditionally, the pricing has worked. For every one percent move in gold, you typically had a...
The Fat Cat Days Are Finished: It is time for the buyside toaccept penny...
...minute-by-minute return index for each portfolio and figured their volatilities in each period. My view was that of a buyside manager who invested in two portfolios consisting of the top...
Value Vanquishes the Bear
...capitalizations. That meant that the market-cap weighted indexes, which are not only the basis for all index funds but the basis for the performance measurement of active managers, had a...
Trade Rebates Hang in the Balance
...The NASD said that the Toronto brokerage had executed fraudulent trades in the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock, which is also known as the QQQ. Swift had turned a $19,000 profit...
