Herds and rational behavior
…unchanged issues to total issues traded has fallen significantly since July, 2007, so it’s not just decimalization that has led to the shift. Program trading and the inclusion of more…
…unchanged issues to total issues traded has fallen significantly since July, 2007, so it’s not just decimalization that has led to the shift. Program trading and the inclusion of more…
…that are at the foundation of the global capital system trading up and down 25% a day, and, in some cases trading in the pennies. Banks became the visible and…
…frequently, so, I’m not sure this is a problem for him. That is, for all I know, at least one share of every Dow index company was traded every trading…
…dividend. The stock is trading at $12/share as I type. That’s a yield of 10.31%, per MarketWatch. The 30-year Treasury, as I write (presumably the Friday close) is yielding 3.32%….
…25 percent higher than it would have been with no adjustment. In his commentary in The Nation, Greider makes a similar point: To put it crudely, Obama’s stimulus program might…
…trading up for several more months. If a market “regulates” but no one notices, does it make the WSJ? Brad Setser finishes the destruction of Tyler Cowen’s LTCM “argument” begun…
…a typical example? Philippine trading manager placing a barter/counter-purchase offer in an Estonian trade site. China and Russia have recently increased use of a barter system on some items for…
…not saying we are now going into protection and we’re going to isolate ourselves from the world, each one of them. The alternative is to have regional trading blocs which…
Robert Waldmann A commenter over at naked capitalism notes that $110b of senior LEH debt went from trading .95 to .12 in a matter of days …. If you include…
…willing to offer AIG terms that are about 180 bp wide of where Ford Motor Credit is trading. Come to think of it, let’s not ignore the mistakes, for after…