Posts Tagged ‘CBOE’

• Doing Business With The Simpsons
  Posted by Jeff Carter on December 12th, 2011 at 8:11 am, Comments: 0

  The Illinois legislature proposed a tax package that is designed to keep the $CME and $CBOE from leaving the state. Is it enough? Indiana governor [...]

• Government Turns Both Barrels on Honest Business
  Posted by Jeff Carter on August 31st, 2011 at 8:16 am, Comments: 0

  If you were not outraged by the malpractice at the CFTC over the past few years before, you ought to be now. It’s so bad [...]

• Ways Dodd-Frank Will Increase Food Prices
  Posted by Jeff Carter on August 11th, 2011 at 8:23 am, Comments: 0

  Bet you thought Dodd-Frank was just designed to go after those greedy banks on Wall Street didn’t you? Well, there are always unintended consequences of [...]

• Will CME Move out of Illinois?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on June 12th, 2011 at 10:00 am, Comments: 0

  At the $CME shareholder meeting last week, there were a lot of questions asked after the presentation by management.  I stood up and asked the question [...]

• Why Aren’t There Futures on ETF’s?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 31st, 2011 at 10:40 am, Comments: 0

  Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) have been a great boon to the stock market. They are great for investors, because it allows them to spread their [...]

• NASDAQ and ICE Pull Their Bid for NYSE
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 16th, 2011 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

  Bratwurst and Wienerschnitzel will be in vogue on Wall Street. Hoist a Beck’s and sing some “Edelweiss”. The two American exchanges pulled their bids for [...]

• NYSE Rejects NASDAQ, ICE in favor of Sauerbraten
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 11th, 2011 at 11:36 am, Comments: 0

  As expected, the NYSE Board rejected the NASDAQ offer to buy them. Anyone that thought the NASDAQ would come in an sweep the NYSE off [...]

• A Sidenote On Exchange Merger Mania
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 2nd, 2011 at 7:30 am, Comments: 0

  Nasdaq ($NDAQ) and ICE($ICE) made a play for the NYSE($NYX) yesterday. While it’s fun to analyze the strategy and financing of the deal, taxes are [...]

• Why Does the Stock Business Stink?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on February 16th, 2011 at 9:43 am, Comments: 0

  With all the exchange merger mania, it pays to think about their different lines of business.  Why does an exchange like the $NDAQ have such [...]

• Mergers and Exchanges on Stocktwits TV
  Posted by Jeff Carter on February 10th, 2011 at 12:33 pm, Comments: 0

  talking $CME, $ICE, $NDAQ, $NYX, $CBOE with Howard Lindzon on Stocktwits. For a slightly different take on the merger, click here and here for a [...]

• Mergers in the Exchange Space
  Posted by Jeff Carter on February 10th, 2011 at 8:01 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday the exchange space was ruffled by the two announced mergers, TMX and LSE, and NYX and Deutsche Borse.  It’s always interesting to play “As [...]

• LSE and TMX merge-UPDATED, NYX and DeutscheBorse, As the Exchange World Turns
  Posted by Jeff Carter on February 9th, 2011 at 7:46 am, Comments: 0

  The London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange have agreed to merge.   The LSE was always a bridesmaid and never a bride in [...]