More than two dozen House members from both sides of the aisle are calling for House leadership to "swiftly" ban members of Congress from owning or trading stocks while in office.
Read more →Households’ savings decisions — the types of financial instruments they use, whether they invest or not in stocks — often look similar to those of their neighbors. Social interactions allow for information dissemination…
Read more →Even Wall Street’s computers still have a problem with a messy commute, apparently. Although it’s still less than human traders did decades ago.
Read more →A trade that makes a penny is a win. And with the number of trades the algorithms and processors driving high frequency trading shops are making per minute, days are full of wins and coffers are overflowing with pennies…
Read more →U.S. stocks closed lower Monday, the first day of trade of the year, weighed by renewed concerns of global economic slowdown and increased tensions in the Middle East. An overnight drop in Chinese stocks that triggered …
Read more →Chinese stock markets tumbled 7% in their opening session of 2016 on Monday as weak factory activity surveys and falls in the yuan added to concerns about the struggling economy, forcing exchanges to suspend trade for t…
Read more →Past efforts to regulate the U.S. stock markets have brought mixed success and more than a few unintended consequences.
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