Its systems for cash equities offer better performance and lower jitter, he added.
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Various units like cash equities, which have not been very profitable over recent years, will most likely be trimmed.
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Cash equities is not the only area Deutsche Bank has been building.
At Deutsche Bank, Karofsky reports to Gahan and Ralph Reynolds , Deutsche Bank's head of global cash equities, program trading and prime services.
Glocer notes on his blog that machines have increasingly replaced humans in high-velocity, thin-spread markets such as spot FX, cash equities and U.S. Treasuries.
Part of the reason for this outlook is the steep competition in the U.S. cash equities business from Nasdaq and BATS Exchange, Allen says.
Changes in a business closely tied to cash equities trading might also indicate Deutsche Bank's determination to make a run at Morgan Stanley's market-leading position.
Niederauer will look over NYSE's cash equities operations, including institutional and member firm group sales and client services for both the exchange floor and the electronic network acquired in last year's merger with Archipelago Holdings.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
It would be better for the global economy if savers piled their cash into equities and corporate bonds now, rather than waiting for better news.
Emerging market funds and global equity funds also posted weekly inflow records as investors continued the rotation out of bonds and cash and towards equities, a trend that started in earnest in December.
Against this backdrop, coupled with ongoing debt issues in the eurozone, gold futures are on the defensive Monday as many investors shift to cash with global equities and most commodities getting pounded amid general risk aversion.
M3 growth took off earlier this year, the bank put it down to a portfolio switch from equities to cash: this was not spending money, it said, therefore there was no inflationary danger.
While the market continues to be challenged by overhead technical resistance in the short term, which could results in sideways action or a modest pullback, we continue to be encouraged by the potential sideline cash that could drive equities through resistance.
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Gold pulled back from its record highs this week when equities fell sharply Thursday, with several analysts at the time citing selling of gold to raise cash to cover losses and margin calls in equities and other commodities that were in a freefall.
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"We now have a tactical sell signal, and one of the most prominent risks is that rates are rising and hitting critical levels, " he wrote in a note to clients, adding that he was neutral on equities, overweight on cash, underweight on bonds and prefers large-company stocks.
Patton has no problem moving into cash at the moment, or shorting equities.
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The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has provided enough systemic risk to keep money out of higher beta emerging market equities and in bonds or cash.
Until the scale of the Middle East conflict becomes clear, investors will continue to shun the risk of equities for the certainty of cash and government bonds.
There is legitimate reason to be wary of stocks, but we note that many individual investors are taking a big bet against equities by holding lots of cash and bonds.
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But having got approval to exit the TARP scheme - after raising cash through the sale of debt and equities - it is much freer to pay its staff as it sees fit.
Investors are better off finding companies with solid fundamentals, low debt, and good cash flows, almost as if investing in equities.
They are putting their money into cash or money-market funds, rather than equities or corporate bonds.
The melt-up into equities will continue as long as investor cash exits bond funds and U.S. Treasuries, and flow into equity mutual funds.
When equities fell sharply many investors sought to cash out profitable gold positions to shore up failing positions in stocks, market watchers said.
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The fund typically holds 20% of its assets in cash and is rarely more than 90% invested in equities.
These are good signs in that they show that there is an appetite for equities and that corporations are able to raise cash.
In managing a portfolio that has a bias toward equities the balance is usually a combination of cash equity and index or sector tracker funds.
The rally was built on expectations for "Abenomics, " the economic revitalization plan by the prime minister, which includes record amounts of cash from the Bank of Japan, helping to buoy equities.
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