Herzog Heine Geduld's Bulletin Board trading desk was shut down shortly after the company was bought out by Merrill Lynch.
On a normal day, the floors of the Big Board's trading rooms would be mostly empty.
In 1997 there were 430 marketmakers trading Bulletin Board stocks.
Over at the Big Board, brand new trading rooms are being closed and floor traders and specialists are being laid off because more trading is being done through NYSE's Arca and hybrid trading programs.
The Kansas City-based alternative trading site, which has managed to take over nearly 10% of the daily trading in Nasdaq-listed stocks since January, is now going to try to boost its share of trading in Big Board stocks.
The first gold bullion ETF StreetTracks Gold Shares, started trading on the Big Board in 2004.
The Big Board countered that Archipelago's trading system was so bad its quotes weren't to be trusted.
Options volume was brisk on Thursday, with more than 4 million contracts trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
FORBES: Futures Flat Ahead of Housing Data; KB Home, Nike, and Ohio Art Co. in Focus
Options activity was light on Monday, with 1.6 million calls and 1.7 million puts trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
November Fed funds futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade rose 0.13, to 95.0, indicating traders expect the fed funds rate to be cut to 5.00% from 5.25% in the next few months .
Two years later Bhappu had not forgotten about Molycorp when he attended a 2007 board meeting of Traxys, a metals trading firm that Resource Capital partly owns.
There are about half as many specialists working the floor as there were two years ago, and the Big Board has closed three of its five trading rooms.
Shares of the flexible circuit board maker Multi-Fineline Electronix are trading lower Friday morning following a mixed financial report for its fiscal second quarter ended March 31.
Scott Anixter, 51, Anicom's chief executive and chairman, hoped to polish his image after being charged in 1990 with 14 felony counts of fraud and five misdemeanor violations in a trading scam at the Chicago Board of Trade.
Sky had an office on Wall Street, a trading floor, Compliance office, board of directors, legal opinions, real employees, etc.
The Board of Trade followed suit five years later with trading in Treasury-bond futures.
Over the past few years many of the small-cap trading desks that made markets in Bulletin Board issues have been shut down or drastically reduced in size, including those run by Goldman Sachs (which bought Spear Leeds, the NYSE market specialist firm, in late 2000), Sherwood Securities and Fleet Securities.
When Suharto's currency- board notion was publicized, Indonesia's rupiah was trading at 9, 500 to the dollar, having dropped 80% since last July.
Three companies rose on their day of trading on China's emerging companies' board today, including one that's supporting a pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
Even so, in contrast to only ten years ago, the firms operating in Kansas City today are largely the same as those trading soft red winter wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade and spring wheat at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
Now the company is back from bankruptcy, trading on the o-t-c bulletin board and narrowing its losses.
Even though Mr. Corzine answered only to the board, the directors had to approve any breaches of those trading limits.
WSJ: Corzine Rebuffed Internal Warnings on Risks at MF Global
Basically they merged with Desi TV, a publicly traded company (that couldn't dig up even a little info on), swapped the ticker symbol to XRMB, and started trading on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board securities market.
ENGADGET: Watch out: Xero merges, now a publicly traded company
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) have seen an increase in call trading recently.
In addition the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) have seen an increase in put trading.
In the aftermath of the big trading error, Knight also said it would create a board-level risk committee and a chief risk officer position.
FORBES: Getco Gets NYSE Listing Via Reverse Merger With Knight Capital
About 500 miles away from the cornfields of southern Illinois, in Chicago, Ceres, the goddess of agriculture stands atop the city's board of trade, the place that claims to have invented futures trading in in the 19th Century.
While I was still working there, the board of directors sold the company to Itel, a now-defunct trading company.
FORBES: Bloomberg Isn't The Only Company Able To Spy On Users
Trading volatility has become possible through vehicles based off the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, or VIX for short.
应用推荐