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Growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, with a serial-entrepreneur mother and two sisters was a boon to Shama Zehra’s professional future: There weren’t any men around to say she couldn’t have one.

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Major averages opened lower and stayed there about two hours into Tuesday’s session. Losses were mild, though, on a busy day of headline flow. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.3%; the S&P 500 fell 0.2% and the Nasdaq eased less than 0.1%. NYSE and Nasdaq volume was tracking lower than Monday.

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Images from the Dallas Security Traders Association Conference for 2014 that took place on September 4 – 6 at the Four Seasons in Las Colinas, Texas.

Monday was a miserable day for the small cap Russell 2000 and it may get worse.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, shares her thoughts on whether the U.S. was late to the game in fighting against the ISIS threat.

The $5.4 trillion currency market is going electronic — and Pragma is getting in the game now with its own algorithms targeting the $2 trillion spot market. The service bureau provider will start offering a variety of algorithms specifically for FX, ranging from simple TWAP to more complex liquidity seekers that minimize market impact.

The government’s own watchdogs tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year and found what they termed a critical vulnerability.