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  • May
  • 31
  • 2007
  • 4:55 PM

Duncan: With right tools and products, people can add value to market

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

From Duncan Niederauer's interview with CNN:

"The markets would tell you that human intervention is very important, and I found it quite telling, when I spoke to our new European colleagues yesterday, that we were talking about this model that we're trying to deploy here, and they said to a person, all four of the exchanges that are part of Euronext, if they had it to do over, they would have kept an element of their floor as well."

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  • May
  • 31
  • 2007
  • 9:00 AM

Watch Duncan today on CNN, CNN.com

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

If even just a substantial portion of his comments run on TV or online, I think you'll find them an excellent take on where we are and where we're heading.

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  • May
  • 21
  • 2007
  • 6:00 AM

Shaping the blog to a new mark

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

I've been legging into some changes in HybridTalk, and I owe you an explanation of where I plan to take this thing and why, and I also want to get your input.

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  • May
  • 15
  • 2007
  • 12:08 PM

Everybody in the pool(s)

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

No shortage of news today about dark pools, crossing networks, etc. Seems only a short time ago, some pundits were forecasting a market duopoly in the U.S.; now looks like there's no shortage of competition. Plus: Bear Stearns buys full control of specialist firm. And, on the historical trivia front: on this day in 1945: raising money on NYSE to build 1,600 B-29s.

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  • May
  • 14
  • 2007
  • 11:07 AM

Exit, Bernstein; enter, Genpact; bond upgrade; insider-trading history lesson

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: Bonds, NYSE

"The exchange already is almost all electronic, but a lot of the electronic trading is the specialists and the brokers on the floor," Thain said at a conference at Baruch College in New York. "They will continue to add value, which means there will continue to be a floor."

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  • May
  • 10
  • 2007
  • 10:31 AM

Q&A: How does priority, parity and yielding work in the market?

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

A Q&A about PPY. And I don't mean Petite Princess Yucie.

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  • May
  • 09
  • 2007
  • 3:00 PM

Howdy from Planet Options!

By: Amy Farnstrom
File Under: Options

My name is Amy. I'm director of derivative products for NYSE Arca, and I'm going to be bringing you fun facts and updates about NYSE Arca Options, the electronic trading platform that was launched last August and has been enjoying steady growth ever since.

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2007
  • 3:53 PM

Q&A: Ships in the night

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

A reader asks: how can you have a crossed or locked market more than a split second at a time?

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2007
  • 11:53 AM

CORRECTED: How much volume is 'Hybrid?'

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

Corrected: The trading floor accounted for 8.5 percent of the trades (not 4.9 percent as I said earlier) and 17.9 percent of the shares, signifying to me that customers are still looking to the floor to help represent larger, more difficult trades. Apologies for getting the number wrong.

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2007
  • 11:09 AM

Q&A: How are LRPs calculated?

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

A reader asks: if a stock is trading at 49.90 and has a 25 cent sweep in a single print, does that trigger the LRP, or would it need to be over 50 cents (assuming it trades 1,000,000 shares daily) because the stock is now over $50? Smart question. Click through for the answer.

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2007
  • 9:30 AM

New ETFs; NY still leads, but...; the Panic of 1792; and Alexander Hamilton

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Links for May 7, 2007: First ETFs to track sub-sectors of the real-estate market; Thain says NY is still the capital of capital, but there's cause for concern; a financial panic has a silver lining; and Mr. Hamilton finances a war.

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2007
  • 6:07 AM

Merged trading activity report; plus other links for May 4, 2007

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Our first combined transaction report as a newly merged company underscores the diversity of assets and geography under our roof. Plus: Listed companies can get a discount on news releases; another take on NYSE TransactTools; and the Dutch land on this little island.

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  • May
  • 03
  • 2007
  • 7:23 AM

NYSE still has lowest trading costs; Thain backs floor; more links

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Plus: Brookfield to list on our NYSE Euronext platform, "the first piece of proof that the transatlantic stock and derivatives exchange will prove attractive to US and Canadian companies seeking to raise their profile and investor base overseas;" NYSE TransactTools offers a technology stack; the first transatlantic broadcast of an NYSE closing bell (1965!); and it's the late, great James Brown's birthday today.

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2007
  • 3:50 PM

Q&A: How open is NYSE OpenBook?

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

A reader asks whether specialist interest is published to OpenBook. Plus, in historical trivia: program trading, Jack Benny, Lorenz Hart and Lou Gehrig. How's that for eclectic?

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  • May
  • 01
  • 2007
  • 3:04 PM

Markets, conversations and blogging; plus Atkins on NMS; and Mayday

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, TransactTools

NYSE TransactTools; talking Reg. NMS; and remembering May 1, 1975 -- links for May 1, 2007.

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