Markets continue to take their cues from Europe, and some strategists are predicting volatile trading ahead of a key election in Greece this weekend.
But in an attempt to quash the speculation -- which had seen Barclays shares plunge by more than 12 percent -- the group stressed its Barclays Capital investment banking division was trading ahead of last year.
In the second scheme, a former compliance lawyer for Morgan Stanley and her husband, a private practice lawyer, tipped a trader about upcoming mergers and acquisitions being handled by the bank in exchange for a cut of the profits from trading ahead of the event.
Critics say it's all just business as usual for an agency that, in the last eight years, failed to detect the accounting irregularities at Enron, the mutual fund late-trading activities, the subprime securities bubble, and mounting evidence that there has been trading ahead of major deal announcements.
Groupon shares are trading higher ahead of its fourth quarter earnings report after markets close today.
The precious metals and most other markets are trading quietly ahead of the holidays.
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Such a formation often means that a period of stagnant or downward trading is ahead, and the pattern now fits all three major indices.
The dollar index weakened by 0.5% against a basket of trading partners ahead of a report expected to reveal a rebound from a six-month low for existing home sales.
Based on MACD and the coming of the "best six months" period, the Almanac Investor went bullish on Oct. 2 this year, five trading days ahead of the Oct. 9 bottom.
While airline stocks are trading lower today ahead of the major winter storm approaching the Northeast, higher fares could translate into higher earnings for the sector.
Mr. Luschini said that he is still recommending that clients buy high-dividend stocks to benefit from the recovering U.S. economy, but also to expect choppier trading in stocks ahead.
While Ms Gillard underlined continued strategic ties with the US, her speech formalised trends built up during the past three decades in which China has become Australia's top trading partner, ahead of Japan, the US and South Korea, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Sydney.
Like Microsoft, Google shares a neutral, 6 out of 10, rating ahead of trading on Thursday.
Ahead of trading on Tuesday, the short term edge in Microsoft is to the downside.
However, news of the January launch has buoyed investors - shares in the Canadian company rose 5.5% ahead of trading on Monday.
Shares of Family Dollar sold-off for a third day in a row ahead of trading on Thursday and are also trading at technically oversold levels.
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U.S. stock indexes are trading near unchanged price levels ahead of the two key speeches Thursday.
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Moreover, the computer systems are often a milisecond ahead of the trading floor and able to profit on half cent price differences.
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Its specialists were losing business to more-efficient electronic trading--and were being investigated for front-running, that is, trading for their own accounts ahead of clients'.
U.S. business leaders welcomed the latest move but said they would have liked to see a more definitive statement that the U.S. was joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is viewed by some leaders as a stepping stone to a wider Asia-Pacific free-trading bloc in the years ahead.
The U.S. dollar index is trading near steady Friday morning, ahead of the jobs report.
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Trading in precious metals is tentative ahead of the U.S. gross domestic product report and following another debt downgrade issued for Spain.
While the bullish case is getting stronger, with the VIX trading at such an important level ahead of key events in the week ahead, we continue to recommend hedging your long exposure.
Councillors will discuss the plans on 13 March and if its gets the go-ahead the firm will start trading on 1 April.
In July 2012 Australia's 500 biggest polluters will start paying a tax on emissions, ahead of an emissions-trading scheme due to start three years later.
Labour's Pauline McNeil then told the first minister she would support him if he went ahead with a review of trading relations with Israel, following the death of nine activists killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Fair value is well ahead of where the stock is trading today.
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