Markets brace for downgrade’s toll – WSJ
What’s an investor to do now? Veteran of '87 crash has some insights – Digital Journal
Keep calm and carry on – Heidi N. Moore
‘Flash crash’ fail-safes bent but didn’t break in selloff – WSJ
Bonds plug into electronic revolution in Europe – Financial News
NYSE Euronext announces trading volumes for July 2011 – NYX
- Derivatives up 13% on strong U.S options
- Cash mixed; Europe up 16%, U.S. down 24%
- NYSE Liffe U.S. open interest over 800,000 contracts
Don’t panic about the stock market – Burton Malkiel/WSJ
Autism Speaks to young professionals at NYSE – Autism Speaks blog
Corporate volunteerism impacts bottom line – Forbes
Survey of charitable efforts around the Street, including at NYSE Euronext – Traders
Thursday’s market thrashing led to Facepalm Friday – NY Observer
Scenes from a trading floor – AFP (video), AP, AP, Bloomberg
Elsewhere on the streaming Exchanges blog:
Metal Streamer Silver Wheaton Marks Five Years of Trading
Markets Mixed, Closing News 8/5/11
Economic Indicators Review
National Minority Business Council at NYSE
On this date in 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph (pictured). -- NYT
In my elementary-school days, the best job a kid could volunteer for was to turn the crank on the mimeograph machine, which printed all the handouts and tests. And everyone loved smelling that fresh ink as you passed the new sheets around the room. Ah, the mimeograph-inky smells of my youth.
