The Traderszone Network

A fresh look at September manufacturing activity Friday should be important for markets.

The stock market continued to gain ground on Thursday, and most investors attributed the move higher to carryover buying interest following the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday decision to keep interest rates unchanged. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) rose about 0.6%, mirroring gains from most major market benchmarks.

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EBS says it is about to launch what it calls its “Ultra” data service, a high-speed feed
– “EBS Live Ultra” service
– It will update EBS snapshot of the market five times more regularly than the existing EBS Live feeds

I’ve posted before on the increasing presence of high speed algos in the FX price-making market. While not the exclusive driver of speedier feeds such as this ‘Ultra’ feed, you can expect faster and faster speeds as more of these types of firms enter.

John Stumpf’s resignation is effective Thursday, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Federal Reserve said in a statement.

RBC’s Mark Mahaney, one of the most followed tech analysts on Wall Street, downgraded shares of Twitter.

The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Okla., was charged with first-degree manslaughter on Thursday, less than a week after the incident, which was caught on two widely circulated police videos.
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Harvard University’s investment arm on Thursday said its portfolio lost 2 percent during the 2016 fiscal year.