Archive - Aug 9, 2009 - Story

With the ban of Flash orders in equity markets now practically a done deal, politicians, and hopefully regulators, will start focusing their attention on Flash derivative products which facilitate not only a two tiered market but potential market abuse by the priliged few who have access to advance looks in assorted securities classes.

• Paulson's calls to Goldman tested ethics during crisis (NYT)
• Satyajit Das: Mixed Metaphors (Evro Intelligence Part 1, Part 2 h/t Paul)
• Rio Tinto spying cost China steelmakers $102 billion (Bloomberg)
• IMF puts total cost of crisis at $11.9 trillion (Telegraph)
• Economic bottom calls: willful ignorance (Market Ticker)
• For private equity, a very public disaster (NYT)

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