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TELL US: How do you talk yourself down from the financial ledge?
Stephen Hoffman Jan 11, 2012
On this week's show, Carl Richards, he's a certified financial planner and New York Times contributor, said that he often makes this suggestion to...
A.I.
Paddy Hirsch Aug 12, 2011
The stock market's fastest electronic firms boosted trading threefold during the rout of August 1-10, Bloomberg reports.
Gary Wedbush, executive...
Apple becomes the most valuable publicly traded company -- for a few hours
Kai Ryssdal Sep 21, 2011
This final note on the way out. There was a brief rip in the economic space time continuum today. Don't know if you felt it.
Long about mid-day,...
MID-DAY UPDATE: stock exchange merger, Egypt, workers' union, and Civil War tourism
Katharine Crnko Feb 18, 2011
Now that the German and New York stock exchanges have tied the knot, it's time to discuss which entity is going to take a new name. Germans think...
Panel moots new rules on high-frequency trading
Bob Moon Dec 23, 2011
Experts advise U.S. securities regulators impose tougher rules on high-frequency trading to prevent a sequel to the May 6, 2010, "flash crash."
MID-DAY UPDATE: Jobless claims, Suez Canal workers' strike, NYSE merger
Katharine Crnko Feb 10, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department this morning announced weekly jobless claims fell to 383,000, the lowest level in nearly three years....
MID-DAY UPDATE: January job numbers, German stock market, and banana wars
Katharine Crnko Feb 4, 2011
Big news from the U.S. Labor Department today. The unemployment rate is down to 9 percent -- the lowest it's been in almost two years. At the same...
Big business reacts to the health care overhaul...
Bill Radke Oct 4, 2010
This morning's Wall Street Journal reports, the big manufacturer 3M says it will stop offering some kinds of health insurance because of the...
Trans-Atlantic cables for even higher frequency trading
Jeremy Hobson Dec 23, 2011
Because milliseconds matter in the world of high-frequency trading, the new cables being laid between New Jersey and London will take cable speed from 65 milliseconds to below 60 milliseconds.
MID-DAY UPDATE: Bernanke: Too big to fail?
Bill Radke Sep 2, 2010
...Shut 'em down
Is high unemployment here to stay?
Retailers show surprisingly solid sales
Flash crash: SEC suspects "quote stuffing" and "sub-...
