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Nasdaq Bets on Blank-Check Co. IPOs To Boost Listings;…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
Competition for listings is a contact sport in the world of major stock exchanges as evidenced by the assortment of US bourses vying to increase market share in exchange-traded fund (ETFs), which represent nearly 2000 securities or more than half of all equities listed on major US stock exchanges.  While the NYSE has long been […] Read More

5 September, 2017
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You Know The Equities Markets Will Move Lower When…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
If you’ve been a professional trader for ‘more than 15 minutes’ (i.e. years, if not decades), you know the equities markets will move lower when (a) complacency prevails, a sense of calm is seemingly endless and equity market indices quietly creep higher and higher or (b), business news front page stories profile ‘amateur day traders’ […] Read More

29 August, 2017
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Fortune CEOs Take Unequivocal Stand; This BD Bids On
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Taking a Unequivocal Stand is Easier for Fortune CEOs than for POTUS–so it seems. Fortune 500 CEOs who have taken exception to erratic and equivocal statements made by the current sitting president of the United States have been systematically subjected to ‘assault by Twitter’ by the country’s CEO-in-Chief. In turn, their company’s share prices have […] Read More

16 August, 2017

Put this Cannabis Fund in Your ETF Pipe
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Cannabis cures all kinds of ailments (so they say..), but whether the plant-based elixir is framed as ‘medical marijuana’ or “recreational marijuana”, investing in a nascent stage, a fast growing enterprise, or even a cannabis fund that capitalizes on pot companies can be problematic, particularly via US exchanges. So, to borrow a phrase from Horace […] Read More

7 August, 2017
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CFTC Approves LedgerX Exchange to Facilitate Bitcoin Options Trading
In Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
What’s Next for Option Markets? A CFTC regulated platform for bitcoin options; NY-based firm gets approval to trade puts and calls on cryptocurrency. For bitcoin aficionados, the road to legitimacy has been pockmarked with obstacles and detractors, including those who have insisted that bitcoins are the currency of money launders, drug dealers and illegal arms […] Read More

25 July, 2017
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Yale University Wonks Blast Exchanges’ Payment-For-Order-Flow Schemes
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
In a July 18 NYT op-ed piece “Wall Street Profits by Putting Investors in the Slow Lane” submitted by Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School and David Swensen, the chief investment officer of Yale University, the spirit debate topic of payment-for-order-flow schemes, aka rebates paid by the various stock exchanges to retail brokers that route orders […] Read More

18 July, 2017
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Box Options Exchange Wants To Turn Clock Back to…
In Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
Electronic Exchange Box Options Exchange LLC plan to re-introduce open-outcry trading for options met with derision by competitors.. The first thought that came to this writer’s mind when reading the WSJ headline in today’s front page “Proposal to Launch Options Trading Floor Stirs Outcry” which profiles a contentious effort on the part of Chicago’s Box […] Read More

10 July, 2017
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What’s Next? Trump WH Aims to Make Cuba Pay…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Trump’s treasury team says Cuba’s Vicana Sugar Company assets, including 60,000 acres of land and 48 miles of railroad belong to US investors. Ole to Compania Azucarera Vicana! Courtesy of a Trump White House that has more leaks than a rusty old pipe, sources “not authorized to speak on the record” have said that members […] Read More

25 May, 2017
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One More Corporate Bond Electronic Trading Platform; Still None…
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Well Matilda, as if the universe of corporate bond electronic trading platforms isn’t crowded enough, despite clear signs of consolidation taking place for this still nascent stage industry (e.g. upstart Trumid’s recent acquisition of infant-stage Electronifie) , one more corporate bond e-trading platform has its cr0ss-hairs on the US market. The latest entrant is UK-based […] Read More

5 May, 2017
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Trump, Mnuchin, Russia & Estonia Share Common Bond: 1927…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Exclusive: The Trump-Russia-Estonia Government Bond connection, first disclosed three weeks ago by a MarketsMuse investigative report that linked US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to a cache of rare, $1000 USD denominated 1927 Estonian Govt bond certificates, has a new layer of intrigue. According to Trump White House sources, last week Estonian Finance Minister Sven Sester […] Read More

22 April, 2017
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Buy-Side Managers Say: Hooray for High-Touch
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
High-Touch or High-Tech? That is The Question.. Virtually any industry professional will acknowledge the now two-decade evolution of financial markets whereby the electronification of equity, options, currency and even fixed income markets has been the primary catapult for business models wrapped in high-tech trading services, trading software applications and niche offerings advanced by trade execution providers […] Read More

19 April, 2017
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Thiel-backed e-Bond Trading Platform Trumid Rolling Up w Electronifie;…
In Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
The notoriously fragmented universe of upstart electronic bond trading platforms that aim to address “the lack of liquidity” concerns voiced by institutional fund managers and deliver e-bond trading tools that enhance transparency and make trading fixed income products easier for buysiders is starting to consolidate. This week Trumid, founded in 2014 and funded by among others VC […] Read More

28 March, 2017
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Giving Credit When Due- IWD & Women on Wall…
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Credit Markets Are More Than Just Selling Credit; Includes Giving Credit When Due: to The Women on Wall Street! MarketsMuse Fixed Income Curator Sara Abel spotlighted a superb salute to one of the top Women on Wall Street in connection with a bond issuance brought yesterday by Citigroup which was ‘dedicated to’ International Women’s Day […] Read More

14 March, 2017
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Trump SecTreas Mnuchin Wants to Cash In Cache of…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
So-called President Trump’s Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin is hoping to cash in on a cache of US $1000 dollar-denominated 1927 Republic of Estonia Bonds, according to credible sources who were privy to wire-tapped discussions between Mike Flynn, the one-time National Security Advisor to Donald Trump and Sergey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to the United […] Read More

11 March, 2017
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Institutional Investor 2017 Top 40 Trading Tech Top Guns
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
And The Winner Is….Institutional Investor Presents 2017 Top 40 Trading Tech Top Guns Who says trading technology wonks are under-appreciated within the context of recognition by industry followers? Certainly not MarketsMuse fintech curators, and definitely not Institutional Investor Magazine, which brings us their annual ranking of the top trading technologists on the planet. “The Trading […] Read More

9 March, 2017
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Interactive Brokers to Retreat From Options Market-Making
In People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(FinanceMagnate)–Electronic trading firm Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) aka “IB”has announced its plans to put an end to its options market making activities globally. The operations, which are conducted through the Timber Hill companies, are expected to be phased out over the coming months. The broker will continue carrying out certain trading activities in stocks […] Read More

9 March, 2017
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Will God Bless These Biblically-Responsible, Sin-Free ETFs?
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
It didn’t take Michael Douglas aka Gordon Gekko to remind investors that Greed is Good or that Sin Stocks (aka Vice Stocks) have long been the traditional vehicle to benefit from this investing thesis. Those trafficking in Booze, Butts, the other kind of Butts, Betting, and Bullets (as well as companies within Warren Buffet’s Berkshire […] Read More

1 March, 2017
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Bitcoin Price Surge in Advance of SEC Decision to…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
Speculators betting on the SEC approving the very first Bitcoin ETF listing helped push the price of the digital currency aka crytopcurrency to a record high in advance of a March 11 SEC meeting in which regulators are scheduled to determine whether the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF [proposed ticker NASDAQ:COIN] is fit for every day […] Read More

26 February, 2017