Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
High-frequency trading (HFT) is the use of sophisticated technological tools to trade securities like stocks or options, and is typically characterized by several distinguishing features:
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FBN's Charlie Gasparino on NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer and NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifeld teaming up to make a joint regulatory response to dark pools.
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In one of the shortest debuts ever for a newly public company, BATS Global Markets was forced to pull its initial offering after systems issues caused a day filled w...
Slammed by a nasty confluence of embarrassing setbacks, exchange operator BATS Global Markets was forced to pull the plug on its initial public offering on Friday. F...
FBN's Robert Gray breaks down afternoon market news.
FBN's Cheryl Casone and Nicole Petallides weigh in on U.S. stocks.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly set its sights on the often-mysterious world of high-frequency trading, questioning whether these sophisticated...
Federal regulators are investigating whether some high frequency trading firms have taken advantage of close relationships with electronic exchanges to gain an advan...
The Securities & Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into communications between some stock exchanges and high-frequency trading firms, looking for any...
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FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets ahead of the trading day.
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets around the world.
Earlier this year Nasdaq appeared to score a huge coup by beating out the New York Stock Exchange to land Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and its massive initial public offerin...
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) is planning a range of new stock-trading services designed to strike back at private trading platforms like "dark pools," escalating the...
TD Ameritrade CEO Fred Tomczyk on electronic trading and investor sentiment.
Regulatory scrutiny around high-speed trading strategies appears to be pushing the business away from stock exchanges and into lesser-regulated platforms such as "da...
U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in their toughening sta...
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