Large Cap Financials: Q1 2014 Earnings Update
Houston -- Earnings season is upon us and we have a wide selection of low-growth stories for investors to choose from among the largest banks. Why do we say low growth? Well, without the juice from...
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Who Made More, Facebook VCs or Its Founder: The True Cost of the VC Preferred...
So, I'm off to the races to raise money for UltraCoin, my uber-disruptive startup, and I come across the resistance of certain parties to take common stock. Now, the standard in the professional VC...
View ArticleFrontrunning: April 30
Headline of the day goes to... Cold weather seen temporarily slowing U.S. economy (Reuters)Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds (WSJ)U.S. Plans to Charge BNP Over Sanctions...
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Gotta Keep Dancing – Trading Of Penny Stocks Soars To Record
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,It seems that no market tops until the bag has been fully passed to retail muppets, and we appear to be in the process of that happening right now....
View ArticleJPMorgan Lied To Fed, Did Not Report Losing Trades Whistleblower Charges
Long before Virtu was forced to pull its IPO due to the backlash against HFT frontrunners in party due to being stupid enough to post its perfect trading record of 1 trading day loss in 5 years which...
View ArticleHow To Fix High-Frequency Trading
Submitted by Anthony Tassone of Green Key Technologies,Solution to HFT Debate: Match Based On Price & Quality, Not Time.The recent public outcry over high frequency trading is pointless. Solutions...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 28
Yellen Concerned by Housing Slowdown She Has Scant Power to Cure (BBG)Because snow in Q1? Citigroup’s CFO Says Trading Revenue Could Slide 25% (BBG)Banks Raise Caution Flag on Trading (WSJ)The answer...
View ArticleGold Price Manipulation Was "Routine", FT Reports
Two weeks ago when news broke about the first confirmed instance of gold price manipulation (because despite all the "skeptics" claims to the contrary, namely that every other asset class may be...
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How The Market Is Like CYNK (Which Was Just Halted)
For all the drama and comedy surrounding the epic idiocy in which a bunch of "investors" took the price of non-existent company CYNK from essentially zero to a market cap of over $5 billion in under a...
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JPMorgan Blows Up The Fed's "We Can 'Control' The Crash With Reverse Repo" Plan
This is a big deal. On the heels of our pointing out the surge in Treasury fails (following extensive detailing of the market's massive collateral shortage at the hands of the unmerciful Fed's buying...
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CYNK Short Squeeze Scam Costs Trader His Job
"My 10-year-old knew it was a scam. It was a complete joke," rages Tom Laresca - a market-maker at Buckman Buckman & Reid - who sold "pure madness" stock CYNK Technology short at $6 last week....
View ArticleOvernight Futures Levitation Mode Engaged But Subdued
For all the talk of how stellar this earnings season has been so far (mostly for the financials if only relative to crushed expectations, and all in non-GAAP terms of course), some of the biggest...
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A Revolving Door Farce: CFTC Commissioner Bails To Head Regulator's Biggest...
There is no better way to describe what the recently departed CFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia just did when he bailed from the commodity watchdog to become the new head of the International Swaps and...
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Volatility Shocks & The Cheapest Hedge
Low volatility is being driven, in BofAML's view, by both fundamental and technical factors. Fundamentally, the volatility of real economic activity and inflation has fallen to near 20 year lows in...
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Forget CYNK, Here's The Newest Scam From The Pump-And-Dumpers
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,Roughly a month ago, my colleague Tim Price wrote an article exposing CYNK Technology Corp.The day we published, the stock (OTC: CYNK) had a market cap...
View ArticleJPM Previews Rising Rates: "In The Short Term, Investors Sell What They Can"
Over the weekend, JPM addressed the question of whether "asset price inflation, produced by 7 years of zero interest rates, has to morph into asset price deflation when the Fed starts hiking rates." It...
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China Moves To Dominate Gold Market With Physical Exchange
Submitted by GoldCoreChina Moves To Dominate Gold Market With Physical ExchangeChina is slowly moving to dominate the global gold market and it is important to join the dots regarding a few key recent...
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And The Market Breaks Again...
OTC Markets says FINRA has halted all trading in OTC Equity securities... FINRA STATEMENT:"FINRA has imposed a quoting and trading halt in all OTC equity securities as of 11:05:06 a.m. ET due to a...
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Why Gold Is Undervalued
Submitted by Alisdair Mcleod via Peak Prosperity,Gold has been in a bear market for three years. Technical analysts are asking themselves whether they should call an end to this slump on the basis of...
View ArticleAsk The Expert Interview with Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity
*Recorded November 6, 2014VIDEO HERE Geoff: Hello, and welcome back to Ask the Expert here on Sprott Money News. I’m your host, Geoff Rutherford. On the line today, we have Mr. Chris Martenson. Chris...
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