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...In 2017, aggregate revenues for HFT companies from trading US stocks was set to fall below $1bn for the first time since at least the financial crisis, down from $7.2bn in 2009, according to estimates from...
...It also announced the purchase of Fels, a lime and aggregates business in Germany for €600m....
...The exchange, the home of benchmark cocoa, coffee and sugar contracts, has been publishing a report on the aggregate number of bullish and bearish positions of market participants, split in different categories...
...Aggregate earnings reported by S&P 500 companies have exceeded consensus expectations by 5.4 per cent....
...When lenders come to aggregate those mortgage pools and hedge their exposure, they tend to use futures and related instruments....
...Why did a US Senate committee find in 2009 that traders in commodity index futures had, in aggregate, created excessive speculation in the wheat market?...
...New York City, Illinois and Texas also carry high index weights....
...It owns or leases interests in 44 power plants, with an aggregate capacity of 11,344 MW, of which EMG’s ownership share is 10,441 MW....
...According to NYSE, DMMs are among the most active trading firms on the exchange and accounted for an aggregate 9 per cent of NYSE volume in the fourth quarter of 2009....
...But if CFTC gains the power to police over-the-counter trading, CME has said the commission should adopt an aggregate limit for the total positions held in all of the markets....
...“This is a case of industrial espionage,” Citadel said in a complaint filed today in Illinois state court in Chicago....
...A report from Wilshire Associates on US state pension plans states that for 59 plans reporting at June 2008 (from a total 125), aggregate funding of their retirement obligations fell to 77 per cent at market...
...In his 2004 book The Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker writer James Surowiecki had popularised the notion that, under the right conditions, canvassing the aggregate opinions of many people could be more efficient...
...Bank of America also suffered after its $21bn purchase of Illinois-based LaSalle Bank in April. Its shares have fallen 17 per cent compared with the index....
...However, Lafarge already owns UK companies Blue Circle and Redland and could encounter competition problems....
...The new offer by the Mexican group – the world’s third-largest cement company and the biggest supplier of aggregates – was accepted by Rinker’s board and will put Cemex on equal footing with rivals Lafarge...
...Credit Suisse noted that other large companies in the industry might be interested in the consolidation process – among them Lafarge and Holcim, Europe’s two biggest aggregates groups....
...That year also saw Aggregate Industries snapped up by Holcim of Switzerland for £1.8bn....
...Hanson advanced 0.6 per cent to 822p in spite of news that Cemex, the Mexican aggregates group, had raised its offer for Rinker of Australia....
...Hanson rose 2.9 per cent to 799½p amid reheated talk that Lafarge of France was eyeing a bid for the aggregates specialist....
...Lafarge, often seen as the most obvious buyer for Hanson, might not have the same appetite for unquantifiable liabilities. It is also already the world’s second-largest producer of aggregates....
...Reprinted by arrangement with The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Copyright (c) Alan Greenspan, 2007....
...Lafarge rose 1.8 per cent to €99.50 after Deutsche Bank raised its price target on the French aggregates group from €95 to €115. Fellow cement maker HeidelbergCement added 0.9 per cent to €96.43....
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