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| US markets crippled by Nasdaq outage |
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| It is highly unusually for one of the US major exchanges and home to many of the country's largest companies to halt trading, let alone for such a period of time |
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| Nasdaq traders roll with technical blows |
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| Exchange's response indicates lessons learnt from Facebook debacle, while traders coped by moving swiftly on to other platforms |
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| Nasdaq mishap puts SEC in spotlight |
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| The industry has pushed back against a proposed rule to require big market players to regulate systems that are integral to their operations |
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| Q&A: Algorithms |
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| The lifespan of an algorithm is short, as rivals work out its properties, and developing codes to stay ahead of the game is hard work and costly |
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| Everbright mishap signals wider problems |
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| Fierce competition, a stall in IPOs and tougher regulation are driving China's brokers to take riskier, more sophisticated investment banking business |
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| 17-minute glitch threatens Goldman's image |
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| A trading malfunction led the bank to purchase at least 800,000 contracts, but officials are studying whether the bank can cancel the erroneous trades |
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| Goldman should take glitch hit, says Scholes |
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| Call by Myron Scholes to force brokers to accept losses from erroneous trades rather than cancel them follows a large trading error by Goldman Sachs |
