Posts Tagged ‘ndaq’

  • Ways Dodd-Frank Will Increase Food Prices
    Posted by 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 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 [...]

  • NASDAQ and ICE Pull Their Bid for NYSE
    Posted by 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 [...]

  • Happy Monday Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 16th, 2011 at 7:43 am, Comments: 0

    If you didn’t see the Bulls/Heat game, you missed some great defense by both teams.  This series will be a war, even though the Bulls [...]

  • Do We Need Stock Exchanges?
    Posted by on April 29th, 2011 at 9:44 am, Comments: 0

    Andy Kessler wrote a provocative editorial today in the WSJ.  It talked about how technology has made the stock exchange meaningless.  He makes some great [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 28th, 2011 at 8:20 am, Comments: 0

    President Obama attacks speculators.  His health apparatus tries to replace a CEO.  The NLRB tries to tell Boeing how to run its business. Wayne Allen Root [...]

  • NYSE Rejects NASDAQ, ICE in favor of Sauerbraten
    Posted by 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 [...]

  • Exchanges, NASDAQ and ICE bid to scuttle Deutsche Borse
    Posted by on April 1st, 2011 at 9:30 am, Comments: 0

    This morning, the anti-climactic bid from NASDAQ($NDAQ)+ICE ($ICE) hit the street. Virtually everyone knew they were going to make a bid, the question was how [...]

  • Why Does the Stock Business Stink?
    Posted by 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 [...]

  • Hostile Bid For NYX
    Posted by on February 14th, 2011 at 1:03 pm, Comments: 0

    Proving that it’s all about derivatives, $CME might be contemplating a hostile bid for $NYX. I didn’t put hostile takeovers into my calculus on exchange [...]

  • Mergers and Exchanges on Stocktwits TV
    Posted by 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 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 [...]