Through quantitative easing and regulations that require banks to hold government bonds in liquidity pools, they have created price-insensitive buyers that have driven yields down.

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Garban's boss, Michael Spencer, believes that exchanges and brokers are in the same business: providing pools of liquidity.

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Cummings believes in creating vast pools of liquidity in the stock market, just as the nyse and Nasdaq do.

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They also have near-instant access to capital markets and dark pools of liquidity.

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Again, size is one factor, since individual bourses are no match for the deeper pools of liquidity available to China.

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The FSA rules may prefigure a world where large pools of liquidity and capital remain trapped within borders as insurance against the worst.

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" Malpass is optimistic about growth: "The huge new pools of liquidity--in corporations, central banks, petrodollars, private equity, hedge funds, foreign savings and the U.S. household sector (the largest pool of liquidity by far)--will take time to use up.

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" Malpass is optimistic about growth: "The huge new pools of liquidity--in corporations, central banks, petro-dollars, private equity, hedge funds, foreign savings and the U.S. household sector (the largest pool of liquidity by far)--will take time to use up.

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Dark pools, unfortunately a nefarious-sounding moniker, actually have exotic names like H20, Liquidity Ping, Matchpoint, PIN, MS Pool and Liquifi.

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