Big stocks have plenty of transparency and a very long trading record.
And over in Moscow, a new trading record was set on the RTS Index future contract, the most liquid instrument of the Russian financial market.
Electronic trading has pushed record trading volumes with seemingly no end in site.
With gold trading at record highs, there are few levels for technical analyst to point to.
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And therein lies the rub for a company whose stock is trading near record levels and whose CEO has already attempted to retire once.
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Since stepping in, "we have been trading at record levels as we have been able to offer very competitive prices across the full product range", said joint administrator Simon Allport.
Rapid-fire electronic trading made the former rule obsolete, but given the extreme volatility and record trading volumes of recent weeks, and the significant decline in shares of major financial companies, regulators are reconsidering it.
Trading set a record for any option making its debut, according to data provider Trade Alert, with nearly 365, 000 contracts changing hands.
The skid, which came on record trading volume, was its biggest since the decline in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011.
Think about the tax this way: The record trading profits of the better banks are the unintended consequence of the liquidity handed out by the government.
Yet, with the Dow Jones trading near its record high, shares in the former largest publicly traded company in the world are down in the gutter.
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The bulls say that, based on many valuations such as stock prices compared to earnings, many equities are cheap compared to historical averages and are far more attractive investments than bonds which are trading close to record highs.
In the past two trading days alone, the Nikkei rose 3.8% to a fresh four-year, seven-month high, closing at 12833.64 Friday on record trading volume after briefly crossing the 13, 000 mark for the first time since just before Lehman Brothers collapsed.
This kind of record trading volume plus volatility can only have been the result of extraordinary high frequency trading by computer and the quant hedge funds, going in and out of Apple and IBM and big bank shares dozens of times a day.
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Investors have piled into platinum, as seen by the rising net-long positions in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission data and record holdings in exchange-traded funds.
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Thursday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 311 points, Nasdaq reported record consolidated trading volume of 3.3 billion, out of what it calculated was 10.9 billion shares traded that day.
Second, while few would dispute that insider trading has become a top priority for the SEC, which brought a record amount of insider-trading enforcement actions in 2012, the amount of realized gains in this case rank among the lowest in recent memory.
Japan's economy was among those hardest hit by the financial crisis, yet the yen is trading at 15-year record highs.
Gold prices soared to a new record in early trading Tuesday as the European Union debt crisis continues to fester.
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In an interview today, TD Ameritrade CEO Fred Tomczyk noted that since last Wednesday, August 3rd, the company has seen record levels of trading activity.
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Elia falsely told investors he had a long track record of day trading stocks and exchange traded funds to yield annual returns as high as 26 percent, and that his trading on behalf of investors was paying quarterly returns of up to 20 percent.
Several trading houses are expected to announce record profits when they unveil their annual results for 2000-01 later this month.
Trading is propelling the firm to record profits, seemingly quarter after quarter.
The bank bought Portuguese government bonds on Thursday after yields rose to record highs in early trading, sparking renewed fears about Portugal's ability to raise money on the international markets.
Last August, gumshoes at Japan's central bank discovered that, despite Daiwa's woes, the New York branches of several other Japanese banks were still failing to separate record-keeping from trading operations.
With July fast approaching and no star witness as of yet, it remains to be seen whether authorities will risk their near-perfect record on insider-trading to prosecute Cohen in what is sure to be a highly-contentious fight.
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