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    GBP/CHF down from 2,49 in 2007 to 1,1461 in 2011...

    It hit the wires (reuters bloomberg terminals) when sep eur/usd future was at 14119 SNB Setting Minimum Franc Exchange Rate at 1.20 Per Euro (2) 2011-09-06 08:17:53.555 GMT (Updates with franc from fourth paragraph.) By Simone Meier Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Swiss central...
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    FSA clamps down on international 'spoofing'

    <B>FSA clamps down on international 'spoofing'</B> By Nikhil Kumar Friday, 2 September 2011 A number of firms have had assets frozen as part of the Financial Services Authority's drive to clamp down on market manipulation. The regulator said it believed that the fund manager Da Vinci...
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    HFT is Killing the EMini

    This was actually done at the request of bank traders to get a more defined fills on the bond auctions. It got rid of the manual prop traders. I was part of the lobby group that got eurex to return the bobl back to full ticks and hence the manual traders returned to it in some form but most just...
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    Volume?

    <B>High market volatility leads to increase in August volumes at Eurex Exchange</B> and ISE/Eurex Exchange: KOSPI Product with new record volumes/Eurex Repo: GC Pooling with new all-time high In August 2011, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average...
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    TT 7.9.3.3 bugs

    Right IT just given me 7.9.4.4, fingers crossed this one is bug free
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    TT 7.9.3.3 bugs

    Great should be onto 7.9.4 today, my clearer do lengthy testing before passing it on but has been proved over last 3 weeks to be stable :)
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    Volume?

    Well on the UK bank holiday bund only did 342k by close i think. Wait a couple of weeks and kids will be back to school and everyone back off holiday. Is eid holiday across muslim world this week to boot - potentially 1/5th (1.2-1.5billion) of the world's population not doing business.
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    Reuters new Bloomberg-alternative Product

    I've used both Reuters and Bloomberg terminals at my desk since '02 Reuters latest update from the 3000 extra has had its name changed to Ei kon http://thomsonreuterse****.com/ (elite blanks the word E i k o n no idea why) Reuters is better and quicker for European markets but less...
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    AMF Short Sell Ban

    Latest adjustment Paris, 18 August 2011 The AMF adjusts its position regarding the rolling forward of net short positions taken before the publication of its Decision of 11 August 2011 Given the existing practical difficulties and time constraints, the AMF has adjusted the position...
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    Crash: in Detroit what kinda house can I get for 299k?

    http://www.trulia.com/property/1080344706-2-Stratford-Pl-Grosse-Pointe-MI-48230 http://www.trulia.com/property/1031047313-180-Provencal-Rd-Grosse-Pointe-Farms-MI-48236 I see what your mean about Grosse Point, high prices there
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    Crash: in Detroit what kinda house can I get for 299k?

    So what's your opinion of a house like this then, going to zero or good value and good prospects??
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    France, Germany to Propose Financial-Transaction Tax

    "Even though the tax on fixed-income securities was much lower than that on equities, the impact on market trading was much more dramatic. During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures...
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    France, Germany to Propose Financial-Transaction Tax

    UK treasury came out and said it's pointless unless global. Good luck with that.
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    Crash: in Detroit what kinda house can I get for 299k?

    Get one of those house movers off Mega Moves and take it somewhere decent, almost worth dismantling it brick by brick
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    WTF just happened?

    Oh look deutsche bourse off 4% already...
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    France, Germany to Propose Financial-Transaction Tax

    EUROPE: Initiatives by President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel to defend the euro has been welcomed by Ireland's Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, but he emphasised that any constitutional change to limit national deficits was a matter for consideration by the Government, the Irish Times...
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    France, Germany to Propose Financial-Transaction Tax

    "A 1996 report on financial transactions taxes for the Canadian government found that Sweden’s 1984 levy of 1 percent on equity trades, doubled two years later, caused half of the country’s trading to move to London by 1990, a year before the tax was abolished. Capital gains revenues...
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    France, Germany to Propose Financial-Transaction Tax

    Or UK say no and all eurex products get priced on a new london exchange tax free. If not bund etc will move to cme or such regardless, the european exchanges will be a wasteland and the products all indicatively priced via foreign exchanges. Eurex US might even make a comeback!
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    WTF just happened?

    Sell deutsche bourse buy cme spread me thinks, adios eurex
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    HFT is Killing the EMini

    You are probably right about nanex and their data feeds I meant they supply the back dated data for analysis but I'm only guessing. Any programmer or normal trader will find this article on a Nat Gas algo interesting, check out the charts with it http://www.nanex.net/StrangeDays/06082011.html...
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