Group items tagged

Bob Chapman recommends Agnico-Eagle NYSE: AEM

Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, has announced that it has integrated the Orc Trading products with Cscreen, NYSE Liffe's global pre-trade price discovery platform, providing traders with …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced this week the selection of five Brazilian startup companies which are considered "helpful to build smart cities". These startups are finalists of an event called Smart Camp, which will happen on November 10th and 11th , in Rio de Janeiro, and will unite government and business leaders

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced immediate launch and availability of its AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors (formerly code-named "Interlagos" and "Valencia"). The new AMD Opteron processors are designed to give enterprises:

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) today announced the completion of the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Penson Futures, the futures division of Penson Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, … more

The trading that occurs on the more traditional exchange floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is fundamentally what most of us have become accustomed to from seeing it in the flicks & on tv.

Hopefully the subject heading caught your attention, if it didn't, it should. Major Financial and Capital Markets Industry players are finally latching onto the fact, that there might actually be something to social media and online engagement. 75% of Global Stock Market are on App Interface according to a recent Heat Map Displays. Most recent is Intel, whom today started a Twitter feed, Facebook page and Linked In group, in an effort to spur discussion of global financial markets online, among industry professionals .Yesterday the trade news reported that the original chief executive of Chi-X Europe, Tony Mackay, is going to launch what it termed a 'Facebourse' by the end of the year. Trademark anyone?

Early this year there was concern from some market participants, that new proposals contained in the current draft of Markets in Financial Instrument Directive (MiFID) II would severely hamper brokers from customising their execution algorithms. MiFID II contains a series of measures that would require firms to provide descriptions of their trading algorithms, ensure they have adequate pre-trade risk controls in place, and warrant that algorithms are properly tested before use

Chinese ecommerce giant just had the biggest flotation in history. The Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has already made history in the largest stock market flotation of all time. The listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) came after months of hype, with many seeing the company as a potential rival to Amazon and eBay.