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...And in a sign of relentless cost pressures they are finding ways to economise: top groups including DRW, IMC, Jump Trading and XR Trading have banded together to construct a speedy wireless-and-cable route...
...His departure from the NYSE came on the same day Goldman formally agreed to sell the rights as a designated market maker to IMC, a Dutch group....
...The bank is understood to have lined up IMC Financial Markets, a Dutch trading company, as a buyer for the unit, which analysts now value at about $30m or less....
...Fee rebates are commonly offered by exchanges to generate interest from market-makers such as Getco, Optiver and IMC....
...group 3G Capital....
...Among them is investment in new tank cars – a particular challenge given that the unexpected boom has created long order backlogs among manufacturers....
...Investment groups have profited from using super-fast technology to execute orders, or send and cancel quotes in fractions of seconds....
...The group is an independent global real estate investment management and corporate finance group with 60 people spread across its offices in London, the US (Santa Fe and Greenwich), Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing...
...The biggest firms include Getco, Citadel, Infinium, Hudson River, based in the US, and Optiver and IMC, based in Europe....
...On Munich Re, Hekster points to parallels with Buffett’s investment in its biggest European rival, Swiss Re, which also increased after he bought a 3 per cent stake in 2008....
...However, private equity firms have bought up several short-line railroads, including the Florida East Coast Railroad, which sold itself to Fortress Investment Group in May for $3.5bn....
...Station Casinos on Monday accepted an $8.8bn takeover offer, after the management-led investor group that has been trying to take the company private since December raised its bid by 10 per cent....
...The group, which was originally the real estate arm of the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, was spun off in 1984 and began operating as a Reit last year....
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