The high-frequency trading boom he was riding had roots there with people who traded at the exchanges, now CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.
Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.
It was followed again after the 1990s when Germany's reunification boom and devaluations by some trading partners pushed up its relative wage costs.
But eBay and the other dotcom survivors still have some way to go before they reach the sort of valuations they enjoyed during the first internet boom: they are currently trading at levels far below their peaks.
According to Amanda McCrystal of Bramdiva, a London-based wealth-consultation service for women, a few years ago there was a boom in online share-trading by women in the Gulf, since they could do it from the privacy of home.
Many investors became accustomed and attached to certificated trading during the privatisation boom of the 1980s.
The pleas cap a big week for regulators and prosecutors who are going after suspicious trading amid a merger boom.
If the U.S. ever moves to a mandatory trading system, expect this field to boom.
As the Japanese economy recovers, some of its trading partners will hope to benefit from its rebuilding boom.
Despite warning signs that the Internet boom had gone too far, Cotsakos remained focused on stock-trading, which peaked at an average 308, 000 orders a day in April 2000, and kept up the juvenile ads.
The boom over the last six years coincides with the introduction of electronic trading side-by-side with floor traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) and the Board of Trade.
The biggest mistake Citi and other banks made during the boom, he said, was coming to believe that investing and trading on their own account, rather than on behalf of their clients, was a basic aspect of banking.
While six of Australia's top ten export markets are already in recession, the chief impact has come from the slowdown in one that is not: China, its biggest trading partner, and the main driver of a minerals boom that has fed fat company-tax revenues.
Five months into the new trading regime, one of its expected effects, the great Chinese garment boom, has come to pass in spades (see article).
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