Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to clamp down on lightning-fast “flash” trades made on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The war on high frequency trading continues apace – and already there have been some high-profile casualties, ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering a rule to ban flash trading, in which computers fed with order information trade stocks moments before the exchange executes those orders.

Flash crashes are becoming more common and yet are far from being fully understood. We explain how flash crashes can unravel, go through some past examples of flash crashes and discuss whether they ...

The stock market took a wild ride this week, but it was mild compared to what happened May 6. That's when the Dow plunged nearly 1,000 points in just a few minutes. The SEC is investigating, and one ...

The head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has vowed to put an end to controversial trading techniques that allow sophisticated investors to take advantage of others in the ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. On May 6 2010, out of a clear blue sky, the US stock market suddenly dropped by 10 per cent ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rules that may curb high frequency trading came into effect on exchanges from New York to London on Tuesday, threatening to crimp profits for the firms that took advantage of the ...

He may be the hero of one of the most recent famous books about the murky world of stock trading, but Brad Katsuyama and his firm The Investors’ Exchange don’t seem to have many fans on the US stock ...

Flash crashes are becoming more common and yet are far from being fully understood. We explain how flash crashes can unravel, go through some past examples of flash crashes and discuss whether they ...