When regulators raise those requirements, oil speculation becomes less attractive to traders and they place bets elsewhere.
The rule, known as the uptick, said traders could only place short-sales following a higher bid in a stock price.
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It was a boisterous place where traders signaled, shouted and elbowed their way to buy and sell futures contracts.
One copy of Spider-Man 2 was purchased to check its quality - and another was immediately produced by one of the traders to take its place on the blanket.
The overall market place remains quieter as traders and investors await a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday morning.
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The market place is quieter as traders and investors wait for an important speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday.
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The overall market place remains quieter as traders and investors await a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday.
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The European Union sovereign debt crisis is once again creeping to the front burner of the market place, which has traders and investors in an extra cautious mood to start the trading week.
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Mangaldas Market, traditionally home to traders from Gujarat, is a great place to browse for Indian textiles and silks.
However, there remains a bit keener anxiety in the market place, with much for traders and investor to ponder as the week plays out.
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There are more EU meetings taking place this week, but traders and investors at present are reckoning the worst may now be past regarding the EU debt crisis.
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In a recent interview before he rang the closing bell at Nasdaq, Sauter gave me a lengthier definition and even thanked the high-frequency traders for making the market a better place.
Traders say that meeting is supposed to take place at 7am New York time on Tuesday.
The uptick rule, in place from the 1930s, forced traders who wanted to borrow stock to sell short to wait for an uptick in the price before putting on their trades.
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The market place, overall, remains quieter as traders and investors await key central bank meetings in the coming days.
Some traders will remain in the market while the work takes place, but most have been relocated to shop nearby.
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However, there remains keener anxiety in the market place early this week, with much for traders and investor to ponder as the week plays out.
Clients are investing in risk management to understand and control their business to see if traders are following defined processes that have been put in place.
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While efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to resolve or control those situations are ongoing and the market place still views those matters with anxiety, traders are also starting to focus on other matters.
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Margin calls to traders from their brokers are also forcing liquidation in the market place.
The market place shrugged off that potentially bearish news, as traders reckoned the slip in Asian physical gold demand is not fresh news and had already been factored into prices.
While the EU debt crisis is far from being fully repaired, the market place has reckoned the matter is not getting worse and traders are now focusing on other matters.
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JPMorgan Chase is shifting 45 prop traders into its asset-management arm, where they can continue to place bets, but only for clients.
Fitting so many traders and salesmen together into a single, cavernous room won UBS a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Examining trades from that second shows that plenty of algo traders got in there and made the easy arbitrage plays all over the place, says Nanex CEO Eric Scott Hunsader.
There are EU meetings taking place this week, including a summit meeting on Friday, and traders and investors are reckoning the worst may now be past regarding the EU debt crisis.
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Yet it was just a dress rehearsal, a favor from Western energy companies, to help traders at Gazprom's new London trading desk learn how to put in place agreements between buyer and seller, work out kinks in the system and go through the process of finding and negotiating for cargo and locating a home for it.
The London markets were closed for a holiday Monday, and traders and investors are awaiting key central bank meetings, which helped keep the market place quiet.
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There are more EU meetings taking place this week, including an EU summit meeting on Friday, but traders and investors at present are reckoning the worst may now be past regarding the EU debt crisis and its impact on the markets.
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