HT to Gong for this article from the WSJ.
Boom in ‘Dark Pool’ Trading Networks Is Causing Headaches on Wall Street
By SCOTT PATTERSON and AARON LUCCHETTI
May 8, 2008
When Cheryl Cargie, head trader at Ariel Investments LLC in Chicago, decided last month to buy 1.3 million shares of a midcap stock listed on the New York Stock [...]
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From the FT we learn: Amazon to enter US wine market
At this point, one has to ask, what won’t Amazon sell?
Best quote of the story is here:
Chris Adams, an executive at Sherry-Lehmann, a leading New York wine retailer, welcomed Amazon’s interest, saying it lent support to the view that states would ease restrictions. [...]
For those who haven’t read (or listened to) Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech, it is remarkable, and certainly worth reading not only for the quality of its content, but its metaphorical power. Martin Luther King Jr. made civil rights accessible in a way few have (or can) by communicating clearly the [...]
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Wine is a difficult thing to buy online. This may seem like an absurd thing to say, what with the profusion of wine blogs and wine focused sites, but I know it to be true for me, and I fear that I am a typical wine buyer.
What is not difficult to do online is [...]
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I finally got around to checking out Farmetrics. Unlike Storage Markets I (thankfully) didn’t have to prove that I was part of the industry to get in on the fun. And, not to put too fine a point on it, I should disclose that despite the fact I grew up in upstate New [...]
In recent months the stock market bulls have used a powerful metaphor — that precocious little girl of fairy tale, Goldilocks — to help make their case that the market will continue to rise. Metaphors are always useful in arguments, and in this case the bulls have used a potent one freighted with meaning.
As [...]
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