Capital Markets and Unintended Consequences

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Marc Cuban wrote a blog post a few days ago offering some suggestions for restructuring US equity markets. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cuban he is a successful internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. The premise of Cuban’s blog was that over the years “Wall Street” has lost its way and has devolved into a … Read More

Knight Falls

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When US equities markets opened yesterday a 9:30AM EDT many stocks were more illiquid than usual (the norm for our markets is very little liquidity during the first 30 minutes of trading). On our desk you could hear Bella barking about erratic price behavior and lack of liquidity. We fired off emails to our broker dealer and technology providers trying … Read More