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The rise of high-speed electronic transactions among investors, dealers and proprietary trading firms has probably shrunk bid-ask spreads, according to a blog post from the New York Fed.

“The market is going to start looking for the fact that everyone is finished selling. I think that means we’re within days of a low,” says one observer.

BioMarin’s drisaperson for DMD has just landed an FDA designation that could net the company a voucher worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The gender wage gap persists, and it’s having a detrimental effect on women in retirement.

Here’s some basic insight into annuities.

The steep selloff that pushed down the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index five percent over three days may say more about the outlook for emerging markets than U.S. companies in the fourth quarter, fund managers and analysts say. China’s economic slowdown, recessions in Latin American countries such as Brazil and Chile, and a breakdown in commodity prices – combined with a thinly-traded market as many investors become more focused on tide charts than trading terminals – are prompting traders to overlook improving U.S.

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AbbVie Inc. could end up sidestepping lost sales tied to an expiring patent on Humira in 2017.