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Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... on possible reforms..." earlier this month. Should HFT be reformed, banned or left alone? Nays. HFT is not illegal. If trading provides liquidity to the market, HFT provides higher liquidity. It aides for better price discovery, it reduces bid-ask spreads ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and securities regulators have opened up an examination into whether high frequency trading (HFT) firms are involved in insider trading. According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... share market has made a better than expected start to the week, with gains in most sectors. Monday is the final day of trading for the third quarter of the financial year, which would probably lead to sporadic and irregular trading as investors close ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
Local shares are trading flat as investors weigh stronger commodity prices against falls across global markets. Wall Street and European markets dropped overnight, while Asian markets have also started Friday lower, following mixed economic data from ...

Capital Fund Management launches half-price hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... look forward to welcoming new investors as we grow ISD." The fund was seeded with $57 million in partner money and began trading in January.

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
With one more trading day left to go, seems like Q1 would end... nowhere. There were some fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... stable we have seen iron ore miners lower too," she said. "Another key feature is the very high Australian dollar. It was trading at 2014 highs overnight and those companies exposed to offshore earnings have bit hit hard." The market could reverse some ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... targeted. But if you thought, picking the equity market is tough... say a little prayer for those who earn their dough trading real doughs. Yes Virginia, it's splashed all over the front pages today. The Australian dollar has climbed to a four-month ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... and up 0.67% from last week's close of US$0.9090. Not only this, the dollar-A's also on the up and up against its major trading partners with the A$ trade weighted index up 4.3% to 70.1 from the 67.2 registered in late January this year. Not only this ...