NYX 360: 21 December, 2011

The President and the King

Albert Lee

• NYSE’s retail plan aims to increase exchange trading – The Trade News
• Co-location is a regulated business, exchanges say – Wall Street & Technology
• Team, Inc. to move to NYSE from Nasdaq – Team
• Immigrants started nearly half of top venture-funded companies in U.S. – National Foundation for American Policy/hat tip:Felix Salmon
• Muriel Siebert on the history and outlook for women on the Street -- TheStreet.com
• Debating high-frequency trading and transaction taxes – Global Economic Intersection
• France wants tougher HFT regulation – FT Trading Room
• CFTC to impose 30-minute delay on reporting swaps trades – FT
• Europe set to delay derivatives reforms – FT
• Scenes from a trading floor – AP, AP, AP, and if that wasn’t enough: AP
• 12-year-old investor wins award at NYSE for phone stand – Sacramento Bee

Elsewhere on the Exchanges blog:

• Looking back at yesterday’s markets and ahead at today’s
• `Wall Street & Washington: 2012 predictions

Today’s history – NYT:

• On this date in 1620, pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.   Great misery would later befall those of their descendants who became Red Sox fans.
• The great guitarist Albert Lee was born on this date in 1943.
• And on this date in 1970, Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs.  Except those drugs to which Elvis was addicted, of course.