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...Mark Spindel is founder and chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital LLC, a Washington-based investment firm....
...Investors are buying shares in oil majors, helping underpin a rally on European bourses, as Brent crude trades around a three-year peak....
...Possibly providing some relief for investors is the 0.6 per cent weakening in the yen over the past four sessions....
...Improved appetite for risk saw investors spurning haven assets....
...Holed up in New Jersey In the good years, Mr Pearson often seemed to be running Valeant from a private jet, criss-crossing North America to negotiate the bold takeovers that fuelled its growth....
...After all, the rules under which it must work — the Regulation National Market System — has enshrined investors get the best possible price, no matter where they trade....
...Some operate on a crossing basis, matching a seller looking to offload a bond with a buyer seeking that exact security....
...When Global Crossing ordered an investigation into allegations levelled by a former employee, the report came back clean....
...“Even one person crossing the line into illegal behaviour is too many and we greatly regret this conduct occurred,” it said in its revised statement....
...It heads a list of successful UK tech companies which are turning their backs on a London flotation, and instead crossing the Atlantic in search of a billion-dollar valuation....
...However, Mr Challenger says not all crossing networks have instant appeal for asset managers....
...All of these large trading firms underpin exchanges and other trading venues such as electronic crossing networks and “dark pools”....
...Martin Deboo, analyst at Investec Securities, reckons the 2013 guidance will be scrutinised by investors....
...“Any line crossing was unknown to Todd Newman. He thought he was getting legitimate research,” said Stephen Fishbein, Mr Newman’s attorney. “He didn’t cheat. He didn’t steal,” he added....
...The company, part of UK-based life assurer Prudential, has hired a couple of senior sales people to open a US office, which means criss-crossing the country to land allocations from large institutional investors...
...The equity market has already experienced a revolution in trading that began with the advent of electronic crossing networks in the 1980s and accelerated in the 1990s, aided by the order handling rules and...
...Volatility has been a driver of a recent shift of trading from off-exchange venues – the so-called “dark pools”, though also known as “crossing networks” – back to traditional exchanges....
...between equities and options, the main contributor to providing best execution to our clients in any asset class lies in the seamless and stable interaction between the EMS, algorithms, smart routing, and crossing...
...Dark pools, which allow investors to trade anonymously with prices revealed only after trades are completed, are starting to expand beyond the US and Europe into Asia....
...Off-exchange crossing volumes should grow to about 5% of total trading volumes in 2012, up from about 1% in 2009....
...The new fund, he said, was already 20 per cent invested in three deals: Care Aspirations, the UK mental health care group; FlatIron Crossing, the US shopping mall; and Ladder Capital Finance, a start-up...
...According to Hedge Fund Research, a Chicago-based consultancy, investors last year pulled out a net $155bn from hedge funds....
...Asian investors have already started to embrace other developments such as electronic crossing networks that offer similar but less developed services....
...Issuing preference shares to a new investor is an expensive way of raising capital, costing more than the debt it would replace, while diluting existing shareholders....
...And when in 2003, Crossrail, the planned rail line crossing London, looked like over-running its budget, it also called for Sir Adrian’s help....
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