MarketsMuse blog update profiles Goldman Sachs preparing for a launch of its own ETFs. Goldman Sachs is the largest U.S. investment bank and they are finally going to make the move to become a huge player in the ETF industry.  The firm has completed all its necessary paperwork with the SEC as…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk update profiles the latest development regarding Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne  plan for a cryptosecurity trading system "for brokerdealers" only and akin to the array of ECNs and ATS platforms that Fintech aficionados and broker-dealers  are already accustomed to. The headline: Overstock looks to issue Bitcoin-style stocks via…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update profiles U.S. Global Investors CEO's, Frank Holmes, interview with Forbes' Trang Ho. Frank Holmes's company is launching a new airline ETF, JETS, tomorrow, Thursday, April 29, 2015. After so many past airline ETFs have crashed and burned, Holmes highlights how JETS is different. This interview is courtesy of Forbes'…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Global Macro update necessarily touches on the hyperbole and couch quarterbacking connected to yesterday’s earnings announcement from Apple Inc ($AAPL), which included a big bump in planned corporate share buyback and increased dividend. Our editors were particularly entertained by below extract from today’s edition of global macro trading commentary…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk aka Fintech update profiles the latest from Symphony, the brokerdealer-backed financial communications program that is looking to make the Bloomberg terminals (or at least their most-used messaging application) mute. This David v. Goliath type battle pitting well-backed upstarts against the ubiquitous Bloomberg LP could become a trend…Read More

MarketsMuse.com ETF update profiles the embracement of exchange-traded funds on the part of one of the investment industry’s most intriguing mutual fund innovators, courtesy of excerpt from 18 April 19 story from InvestmentNews.com Jeffrey Gundlach is no stranger to striking out on his own or launching new products. After an…Read More

MarketsMuse is known for being both a curator of financial market news as well as a part-time pontificating platform, and yet our altruistic editorial team actually likes to lean towards and forward to our followers select stories that profile the truly compelling "social-sensitive" initiatives spearheaded by Wall Street banks. While…Read More

Just when you thought the world of electronic bond trading had become saturated, MarketsMuse.com Fixed Income and Trading Tech departments continues coverage of the increasingly popular fixation on the part of entrepreneurs and technology firms, who have set up nearly two dozen new markets to trade corporate debt. In the…Read More

TradeWeb's Raazi is out after short stint pitching the merits of electronifying the corporate bond market. MarketsMuse.com has made more than a few mentions about the recent decade’s corporate bond-centric electronic trading platform initiatives and those being spearheaded by the latest generation of altruistic sell-siders, buysiders, and the assortment of…Read More

The senior curator for MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk section was so inspired by a recent article "A Cynic's Guide to Fintech" by Dan Davies, the Senior Research Advisor at Frontline Analysts and published via Medium.com, we wanted to share the opening elements with our audience..For those of you following the various…Read More

MarketsMuse.com global macro trading snapshot is courtesy of excerpt from 7 April edition of macro strategy commentary from "Sight Beyond Sight", a publication of Rareview Macro LLC and authored by 20-year industry expert, Neil Azous. [caption id="attachment_2349" align="alignleft" width="150"] Neil Azous, Rareview Macro[/caption] Over the past two trading days, three…Read More

MarketsMuse.com merges Fixed Income and FinTech with continuing coverage of the corporate bond market’s effort to evolutionize via electronification with a focus on yet the latest innovator initiative courtesy of Goldman Sachs alumni Amar Kuchinad and his start-up“Electronofie.” Our hats are off in salute to the catchy company name and…Read More

MarketsMuse Global Macro update profiles perceived opportunities from the perch of Denmark’s Saxo Group Mads KoefoedIt and his view that interest rate increases probably won't happen during the second quarter, but the market will very likely be dominated by speculation on the likely timing of a US Fed interest rate…Read More

While high-yield bond followers are seemingly caught between a rock and a hard place as interest rates may be poised to pick up, some expert investors are positing that high yield positioning is precisely the tactical approach to maintain.. The following MarketsMuse.com fixed income fix is courtesy of contributed article…Read More

While a certain sect of economists are lamenting the exponential increase in debt issued by an assortment of sovereign entities [and corporate bond issuers] within the context of a feared liquidity crisis if and when rates turn higher and institutional investors might run for the exits at the same time,…Read More

MarketsMuse fixed income and global macro update courtesy of extract from blog post at II’s blog by James Craige, the head of emerging-markets debt at Stone Harbor Investment Partners in New York. Two years of challenged returns, and high volatility, by emerging-markets local currency debt has prompted questions from investors.…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of below extract from Institutional Investor’s profile of Mario Gabelli and his investment vehicle GAMCO’s foray into the actively-managed ETF fracas. Now that exchange-traded funds are a better fit for active managers, Mario Gabelli is signing on. The seasoned investor — who eschews index funds — says…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update courtesy of extract from 27 Feb story from ETF.com’s Elisabeth Kashner and her profile of prop trading firm Virtu, the high-frequency (HFT)“Virtu’s HFT Way To Play Crazy Oil Market”   [caption id="attachment_2917" align="alignleft" width="105"] Elisabeth Kashner, ETF.com[/caption] Would you ever sell something to yourself and pay someone…Read More