The Traderszone Network

U.S. chief executives, already wrestling with a steady flow of activist investors in their board rooms, face a newly challenging landscape now that the loudest voice of the bunch will have the ear of the next president and his securities’ rule makers.

When W. D. Gann set out to investigate the behavior of markets at the end of the 19th century, the New York Stock Exchange records contained no more than 15 years of data. It was not until 1883, when Charles Dow and a fellow reporter, Edward Jones, introduced the first Dow Jones Industrial Average records in the Customers’ Afternoon Letter that American traders were able to track daily stock movements for the first time. 

Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt, further hampering two of Europe’s leading investment banks as they struggle with weak earnings.

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