The Traderszone Network

Jefferies Group, the investment bank owned by Leucadia National Corp., hired Chris Pepe from Barclays Plc to expand in electronic trading, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The sleuth who pieced together Navinder Singh Sarao’s pattern of spoofing isn’t an FBI agent or regulator. He’s an academic whose research has taken the view that high-frequency trading is good for markets.

Oil futures ease, helped downward by a modest gain for the U.S.

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With evidence coming in from several studies, scientists are more certain that oil and gas drilling is causing earthquakes across the U.S.

With the Nasdaq finally surpassing its dotcom peak on Friday, worries about a return to the tech bubble are back in focus.

Asian shares scaled seven-year highs following stellar earnings from a few U.S. hi-tech giants, but investors were cautious ahead of central bank meetings this week in the U.S. and Japan and on deadlock in creditors’ talks with Greece. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.7 percent while Japan’s Nikkei was flat. On Friday, shares in Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft both jumped over 10 percent on strong revenues, boosting the Nasdaq Composite index to a record high.

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The stock market roars as the economy whimpers, and it’s only a matter of time before the inevitable reconciliation, writes Craig Stephen.
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