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President Donald Trump’s forceful warnings to North Korea may have been “useful” to pull things back from the brink.

Investment veteran is on the lookout for talented, lesser known managers in frontier and emerging markets.

Maker-taker, taker-maker, or whatever one chooses to call the way exchanges pay to attract order flow is now coming under state regulator review.

The market consultancy reports that while U.S. equities have been on a tear, with the S&P 500 increasing by 3.5 times since 2009, brokerages have not participated in the bull market.

Our live blog is tracking news as a U.S. general says Trump told the army to prepare military options on North Korea.

Ignoring leverage, is there any reason to trade options rather than the underlying?

Let’s say I’m bullish on a stock and think the price distribution in 3M will be different from normal (biased to the upside). Textbook tells us that option prices only need depend on risk neutral probability and not on my view since market makers can hedge accordingly. Should I bother buying a call?

France ILO Q2 unemployment report now out 17 Aug
– 9.6% prev
– ILO mainland unemployment rate 9.2% as exp vs 9.3% prev
– mainland unemployment change -20k vs -119k prev revised from -115k

 The welcome downtrend in unemployment continues.