Block trading accounted for more than 50% of the trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
Outside the options pits, HPQ is seeing some rather bullish block trading activity.
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If you go back to block trading in its heyday in the New York Stock Exchange in the mid '90s.
Technology has in turn spawned internalisation of trades by big investment banks off-exchange, alternative trading systems, and automated block trading.
We believe it will be an important block trading venue for Asian markets, attracting new participants and improving the trading environment in the region.
Though preserving large block trading helps retail investors, some of the logistics may need tweaking, says Tony Barchetto, head of sales and strategy at Liquidnet.
Preserving block trading through these large indications helps institutional investors working for mutual funds and 401(k)s trade without moving the market against themselves, says Al Berkeley, chairman of Pipeline Trading Systems.
Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.
Paraguay is less of a smugglers' Shangri-la now that it is a member of Mercosur, a trading block that includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
Also, the idea of this reasonable expectation that you're trading against another block warrants clarification, Barchetto says.
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Mr Arbor has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the industry regulator, to block the proposed exchange, claiming that Cantor, as a brokerage, has a conflict of interest.
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CBOT's no-holds-barred attempt to persuade the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the futures-market regulator, to block the new exchange.
The Calendar Spread is so interesting as it can be used as a building block for more complex strategies, making it an important tool in your trading toolbox.
However, wire services reported in late morning trading that issues with the European Central Bank may at least temporarily block any Greek debt-restructuring agreement.
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The block was priced at a 2.8% discount to where the stock was trading before news of the sale was announced.
Pipeline, a stock and options institutional trading venue, has launched a system that will help match investors with a block trade.
Though it would make sense to merge the SEC with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates derivatives, Congress's powerful agriculture committee would probably block the move.
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