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Thrills and spills of high speed trading
Oct 23, 2012
It’s fast and furious, and highly controversial. High-frequency trading is the computer–based buying and selling of shares within fractions of a milli-second. A new study just out in Britain suggests this kind of trading is mostly beneficial.
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25 years after Black Monday, what lessons are learned
Oct 19, 2012
The markets tumbled Friday, but the declines were nothing compared to the Black Monday crash of Oct. 19, 1987. The Dow Jones shed 22 percent -- the equivalent of a 3,000-point drop today.
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MID-DAY UPDATE: Bernanke: Too big to fail?
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-...
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MID-DAY UPDATE: Trade deficit widens in June...
Aug 11, 2010
... We're in debt and out of work -- why are we still gobbling imports?
Economists underwhelmed by Fed's new plan
What caused the flash crash?
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