Knightmare on Wall Street Book Review: How Knight Capital Fumbled its Best...
Ever since the Knight Capital trading disaster broke in August 1, 2012, investors and traders have been morbidly fascinated by the incident. How had so sophisticated a company managed to burn though...
View ArticleTrading Halted in Nasdaq Securities like Facebook, Microsoft and Apple… Did...
According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. stock exchanges on Thursday just halted trading in all securities listed on NASDAQ because of a technical issue, exchange officials said. NASDAQ announced the...
View ArticleNasdaq Investigating Problem That Forced Trading Halt, No Answers Yet
Forbes’ Steve Schaefer reports a technical issue led the Nasdaq stock market to halt all trading in shares listed on its exchange, and request fellow exchanges do the same. The New York Stock Exchange...
View ArticleNasdaq Glitch Prompts Two-hour Shutdown and Fears Over Stability
The Guardian reports that a glitch in the Nasdaq stock market resulted in an unprecedented shutdown of trading of over 2,000 major US stocks and options for more than two hours, creating confusion...
View ArticleBob Greifeld, Nasdaq Chief, Defends Handling of Trading Halt
The New York Times report that the chief executive of the Nasdaq stock exchange, Robert Greifeld, on Friday shot back at criticism of how his exchange handled a three-hour halt in trading on Thursday...
View ArticleMaintaining the Standing of the U.S. as the World’s Most Sophisticated...
Knightmare on Wall Street‘s author, Edgar Perez, chastised U.S. regulators for their performance during NASDAQ’s “Flash Freeze”. Market participants appreciate visible leadership that goes beyond...
View ArticleOn Heels of Recent Outage, NASDAQ Suffers Another Knightmare on Wall Street
The Wall Street Journal’s Jacob Bunge reports that just ahead of a meeting Wednesday to discuss last month’s unprecedented three-hour trading outage, Nasdaq officials got another unexpected jolt: The...
View ArticleOPEN LETTER to SEC Chairman Mary Jo White: Maintaining the Standing of the...
Dear chairman Mary Jo White, As informed by NASDAQ after the August 22 incident, price quotes were not being disseminated by the Securities Information Processor (SIP) for three hours. There was a...
View ArticleBLOOMBERG: CFTC Seeks Comment on Potential High-Speed Trading Curbs
As reported by Bloomberg’s Silla Brush, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking comment on whether to require registration for automated trading firms, taking a first step in...
View ArticleFormer Knight Capital CEO Thomas Joyce’s Email and Credit Card Information...
The personal electronic address and credit card information of Thomas Joyce, former Chief Executive Officer of Knight Capital, was in a database of Stratfor’s clients that was hacked by Anonymous on...
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