From the Believe It or Nuts Department: Elon Musk, aka Technoking of Tesla and SpaceX boss, has tweeted that he will create an NFT Digital Video Artwork that showcases his self-immolation. Tesla CFO Zack Kirhorn, who just changed his corporate title to Master of Coin, will wrap the video with…Read More
Social Capital SPAC factory run by SPACmeister, notorious Tweeter and promoter of RedditArmy favorite stocks Chamath Palihapitiya is rumored to have filed a confidential S-1 for his latest Special Purpose Acquisition Company, (aka SPAC). The entity is to be called SIDS Acquisition Corp. According to sources, @chamath aims to focus…Read More
Andrew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the co-founder of so-called digital asset infrastructure and crypto-currency trading firm Seaquake.io, who along with his partner Matthew J. Krueger of San Francisco are facing investor fraud charges, is now slated to appear in New York Criminal Court April 30 to answer…Read More
GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) $GME share trading during the past days has, if you’ve somehow not heard, proven that an un-coordinated assembly of day traders, enabled and empowered by social media platforms Reddit and WallStreetBets can accomplish what the mob that attempted to take over the capitol in Washington DC could…Read More
Working Luncheon will celebrate veterans in the workplace with attendees from notable publicly traded companies May 16, 2019 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments and the largest designated market maker at the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), in partnership…Read More
Jane Street Capital, the quant-centric proprietary trading firm best known for its dominant role in the ETF marketplace--including its role as a liquidity provider for stocks and options as well as exchange-traded funds to buy-side accounts-- has a new arrow in its quiver; making markets in corporate bonds. The firm…Read More
ETFs $HONR and $VETS advance an intriguing investment thesis: companies that stand up for military veterans outperform their peers. Much like the view that women-led VC firms tend to outperform their male-dominated competitors, the thesis for investing in a culture-centric portfolio of companies is an approach now used by a broad…Read More
MarketsMuse coverage of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry began nearly ten years ago, and our senior curators have since been scratching their heads as to why CNBC, the retail investors' most-watched business news network had never created dedicated programming to educate their viewers about ETFs, an asset class that has consistently…Read More
Stock Price Implosion Leads Some to Challenge Current Market Structure; HFT Firms Are Under Attack, Again… Heads Up to High-Frequency Firms: Time to Hire a PR Crisis Manager Again, Call Your Lobbyists, Book Your Plane Tickets to Washington DC. Before “bidding on” to the anti-HFT and anti-ETF remarks circulated by…Read More
Trifecta Month for GTS; NYSE DMM, Quant-Trading Powerhouse and Fin-Tech Think-Tank Now Aligned With Investment Bank Specializing in Primary Debt & Equity Capital Markets GTS, the NYSE's Top DMM, and one of the global trading market's leading multi-asset electronic market-makers, is on a strategic deal-making binge. On the heels of…Read More
Breaking News: GTS Securities, the NYSE's biggest specialist firm aka Designated Market Maker ("DMM") and one of the electronic market-making world's biggest players in the FX and rates markets is now aiming to become the ETF industry's biggest market-maker the old-fashioned way, by buying into the space. After several months…Read More
MarketsMuse Curators extend our thanks for the excerpt below, courtesy of Aug 1 feature story by Philly Inquirer Reporter, Erin Arvedlund. Follow Erin on Twitter via @erinarvedlund or email EArvedlund@phillynews.com NYSE Floor Broker Lauren Simmons is breaking records and glass ceilings. She’s the youngest female and only the second African American woman to…Read More
Extra! Extra! XLC is the new ETF that ties telecom and media constituents into one exchange-traded fund! For those with a view towards latest and greatest ETF products, eyes and ears are on the Communications Services Select SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLC) — "it tracks the Communication Services Select Sector Index and “seeks…Read More
MiFID II Implementation Triggers Flow of $50b into Europe ETF Market In First Weeks of 2018; ETF Sec Lending and ETF Options Growth Expected to Drive EU Financial Markets. "What we've seen for the first time in European ETF trading is really a concerted interest in trading ETF options in…Read More
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ETF broker WallachBeth Capital, a leading institutional brokerage firm, has announced the Phase I roll out of its internal proprietary Quote Capture platform. The platform further enhances WallachBeth's commitment to providing institutional clients the highest degree of transparency throughout the ETF execution…Read More
What's Next for exchange-traded-fund land? Blockchain ETFs! Duh?! Aside from the efforts by the Winklevoss Boys and a cadre of others to introduce a Bitcoin ETF, Blockchain companies (now known as 'blocktech' firms) fall into the sweet spot for fintech investors and public companies that are pivoting, re-purposing or adding…Read More
Crypto Hedge Funds Get Their Greenwich On. If the MarketsMuse curators have avoided bidding on and publishing tick-by-tick coverage of "crypto mania" and bitcoin bubblelicious bytes akin to our media industry brethren, its only because we were arguably a pioneer when, starting in 2014, we first started framing the bitcoin and distributed…Read More
Former LTCM Guru Gives Up the Ghost; Converts From Convergence Trading to Passive Investing Armed with ETFs Proving that old traders never die, they simply re-invent themselves, yet another highly-seasoned hedge fund guru whose pedigree extends back to Salomon Brothers and thereafter, senior partner at the now infamous hedge fund…Read More
