Seeking Your Reflections and Recollections of 9/11-- Your humble blogger/Exchanges
Morning Report: August 12, 2011– Paras Madho/Exchanges
Markets Higher, Closing News 8/11/11– Brian Hooghuis/Exchanges
SandRidge Permian IPO raises $540 million – less than expected, but it got done– Reuters
Primero Mining to list on NYSE– Primero
In sell-off, U.S. short-selling shields came up short– WSJ
Do you agree? Disagree?
And can you say “Short-selling shields fell short in sell-off” five times really fast?
Short-selling ban could sow confusion and be ineffective, investors and academics warn– FT
Banning the shorts: don’t expect a lasting impact– Lex
Volatility boosts revenue at exchanges– FT Trading Room
The proper etiquette for market panics– Psy-Fi Blog/hat tip: FT
Stock market Richter scale – is this a 5.0?– FT Alphaville
Does high-frequency trading magnify/accelerate volatility?– ABC
Market ‘highly influenced’ by computerized trading: Dick Grasso – CNBC
"How is consumer confidence?" everyone wanted to know the very moment they were able to draw breath after screaming "global disaster" for six solid days. – LA Times
Scenes from a trading floor – Getty, AP, AP, AP
On this date in 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the 5150 (pictured). - NYT
Here’s a happy sight at the end of this crazy week: Cutest dog you ever saw, on Wall Street – Sammy and the City
