Fox Business - The Power to Prosper
Search Site

James T. Hackett

Related Topics

  1. James T. Hackett
  2. Anadarko Petroleum
  3. William R. Johnson
  4. Gary Kelly
  5. Paul Jacobs
  6. Greg Brown
Get updates on James T. Hackett
Analysis: Is U.S. stock trading safer? Fewer erroneous trades seen

The water may be safer than many investors thought.More than three years after the "flash crash" terrified many by temporarily wiping out almost $1 trillion of U.S. stock market value in a few minutes, there are signs that the number of erroneous and aberrant trades is dropping.The use of circuit breakers for individual securities in the wake of the May 6, 2010 plunge, and the introduction of tougher risk-management controls for broker-dealers in November 2010 appear to have helped stabilize trading, market experts and regulators said.The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the security industry's watchdog, said the number of reports of "clearly erroneous" trades it received was down 84 percent in the last six months of 2012 compared with the first six months of 2009."We have seen a dramatic reduction," Richard Ketchum, chairman and chief executive of FINRA, told the Reuters Global Wealth Management Summit last week, though he acknowledged there were still plenty of such incidents...

Read More ›

  1. A Docile ETF For The Nat Gas Surge

    Natural gas futures are volatile.That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) for active,...

  2. A Docile ETF For The Nat Gas Surge

    Natural gas futures are volatile.That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) for active,...

  3. Shell CFO: Price Too High for Stake in Anadarko Mozambique Gas Project

    Price expectations for a stake in Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) Mozambique gas project are too high, Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSB.LN) chief financial officer, Si...

  4. Are Cyclical Stocks the Place to Be?

    Harris Financial Group’s Jamie Cox, Empyrion Wealth Management’s Kimberly Foss and Silverman & Co. Managing Partner Philip Silverman on the outlook for the markets.

  5. American Express Hits New 52-Week High

    FBN’s Nicole Petallides breaks down the day in the markets.

  6. Chesapeake Taps Anadarko Exec Lawler as CEO

    FBN's Jo Ling Kent breaks down afternoon market news.

  7. Chesapeake Taps Anadarko's Lawler as CEO

    Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) said Monday its board selected Robert Lawler to serve as chief executive of the nation's second-largest producer of natural gas.Lawler, ...

  8. Chesapeake Chooses Anadarko Exec Lawler As CEO

    Chesapeake Energy Corp. has chosen Robert Douglas Lawler, a top executive at rival oil-and-gas company Anadarko , as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reporte...

  9. Chesapeake Energy hires Anadarko executive as CEO: WSJ

    Chesapeake Energy Corp has hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon, ...

  10. NYSE Busts Trades as Anadarko's Stock Falls to a Penny

    A sharp drop that drove Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) to a penny in the last second of trading Friday exposes a vulnerability in trading rules adopted last month ...

  11. Laredo Petroleum Oil CEO on Earnings Miss

    Laredo Petroleum Oil CEO Randy Foutch weighs in on earnings and gas prices.

  12. Continental Resources 1st-Quarter Profit Doubles on Production

    Continental Resources Inc.'s (CLR) first-quarter profit doubled as the oil and natural-gas company posted record net production.Oklahoma City-based Continental has r...

  1. NYSE asks SEC to reinstate volatility curbs

    NYSE Euronext asked U.S. regulators on Friday to allow it to reintroduce rules to curb excessive trading volatility after several New York Stock Exchange-listed secu...

  2. NYSE Files to Briefly Reinstate LRP Curbs

    The New York Stock Exchange is looking to reinstate a system it phased out in April that will help curb excess volatility in the market. The stock exchange confirmed...

  3. Shell Backs Away From East Africa Gas

    Royal Dutch Shell PLC is returning its exploration focus to the West African heartlands after a second attempt to gain a foothold in new gas discoveries off Africa's...

  4. Mini Flash-Crash Trades Wiped From Tape, But Not Cancelled

    Evidence of the short-lived plunges in shares of American Electric Power Co. Inc. (AEP) and NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) were wiped off the tape, but not from investors...

  5. Rocky Start for Market's New Safety Valve

    Within seconds of the opening bell Thursday, shares of American Electric Power Co. (AEP) collapsed 54%, trading as low as $22.28 after opening the day at $48.18. Mom...

  6. NYSE says AEP, NextEra trades stand after crash at open

    All trades in American Electric Power Inc and NextEra Energy Inc in a crash that happened in the first minute of trading on Thursday will stand, the New York Stock E...

  7. Marathon Oil: Talks to Sell 20% Alberta Oil Sands Stake Fall Through

    Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) said discussions to sell its 20% outside-operated stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project in Alberta, Canada, were unsuccessful and talks w...

‹ Prev12345…Next ›
Freebase CC-BY
Source: James T. Hackett on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
Other content from Wikipedia, licensed under the GFDL