19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Samsung Electronics ponders stock split to appease investors: executive
Samsung Electronics ponders stock split to appease investors: executive
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is considering a stock split, a company executive said on Tuesday, as sliding profits put pressure on the firm to keep investors happy. Samsung head of investor relations Robert Yi told reporters the company had been considering a stock split for some time but it was too early to make a decision. A split would make Samsung shares easier to buy and could attract more retail investors.
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The End Of HFTs (And Price Discovery): America’s Biggest Money Managers Launch Their Own Dark Pool
The End Of HFTs (And Price Discovery): America’s Biggest Money Managers Launch Their Own Dark Pool
Remember when the always entertaining HFT lobby decided to spin Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys by saying that the HFT parasites may frontrun orders and may make a mockery of efficient, non-tiered markets, but they only do so for “slow money”, vanilla funds (who can afford to pay HFT “tolls”) and generally don’t impact mom and pop retail investors (as if retail investors still exist, and as if it isn’t mom and pop’s money keeping mutual funds in business) which somehow was supposed to absolve them of years of post-Reg NMA rigging and manipulation.
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Should you try to catch the falling Swiss knife?
Should you try to catch the falling Swiss knife?
Switzerland’s stock market dived after its central bank de-pegged the franc, but don’t bargain hunt yet, analysts said.
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Video Review With New Set Ups 1/20/15
Video Review With New Set Ups 1/20/15
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Why The ECB’s QE Won’t Work (In 4 Brief Minutes)
Why The ECB’s QE Won’t Work (In 4 Brief Minutes)
Given all the hints, promises, guarantees, and bets that have been made, the ECB better deliver quantitative easing on Thursday or the Swissnado from last week will be like a fart in a hurricane. But while most people believe that this time is different and Draghi will actually deliver more than simple rhetoric, investors are sceptical about its ability to actually reflate the eurozone’s economy (and rightly so).
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Euro pressured ahead of this week’s ECB meeting
Euro pressured ahead of this week’s ECB meeting
Euro faces pressure as investors positioned for possible easing steps by the ECB, while the dollar edged up on the yen after a U.S. holiday.
19 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How The ECB’s QE Is About To Send The Most Deflationary Signal Ever
How The ECB’s QE Is About To Send The Most Deflationary Signal Ever
With every passing day, negative 10Y yields across the developed world’s bond market, and not just Switzerland, increasingly appear to be a question of when not if. Paradoxically, the main reason for this long-end deflationary crunch will be an action that the ECB will undertake in three days that is designed to spur inflation, and yet what it will achieve is to send the most deflationary signal possible: a global bond market in which bondholders pay sovereign issuers to issue debt.