…imagine liquidity is very closely correlated with trading volume. That doesn’t mean that high trading volume will cause a large increase in asset prices. It certainly doesn’t mean that innovation…

…correlation between high valuations and future returns. That may create a particular problem for those investing in emerging markets at the moment. According to Mr Montier, emerging markets are trading…

…natural candidate to support an open world trading and financial system…” We benefit, but we are “ambivalent”. “An open trading system tempts every country to pursue strategic trade policies that…

…the RMB in the inter-bank foreign exchange market after the closing of the market on each working day, and will make it the central parity for the trading against the…

…who are actually trading on fundamental information. It is commonly argued that high frequency trading benefits institutional and retail investors because it has resulted in a sharp decline in bid-ask…

by J Tsimeskes Overhead Allocation vs. Theft I was readingDean Baker’s excellent post today on high speed trading. My initial reaction was that this was simply theft, high frequency traders…

…large-scale trading nation—in their words, a “mega-trader”—in the 1990s. They compared the impact of this development on the U.S. with the effect of Japanese exports to the U.S. in the…

…Massachusetts due to Champlain in Quebec having established trading relations with many tribes that extended that far south (but not further), with the French treating the native Indians far better…

…after Monday’s price surge and settled 60 cents lower, as trading in the July oil contract expired with oil priced at $73.06 a barrel, while the more-actively traded August oil…

…barrel last week on falling US supplies of crude, gasoline, and distillates, the contract price for US light sweet crude for October delivery advanced in early trading Monday as traders…