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Betting On Black-Outs: NASDARK Outage Odds Surge

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This week's brief 'outage' in US equity markets has been shrugged off by most, with some proclaiming that "we are getting used to it now." However, there is at least one group that are not ignoring this. Paddy Power has inaugurated bets on the next exchange in the world to suffer from a greater-than-2-hour outage, and the winner (for now) is... NASDARK. At 5/2 Odds, the pride of US capital markets is more than double as likely to suffer such an outage again by the end of 2014 than Tokyo and London and four times as likely as the emerging market Brazil's BOVESPA. USA is number 1 once again, well played...

 

 

So what separates the NASDARK from the rest? What market structure makes the NASDARK more prone to these kinds of overwhelming exchange failures? cough - HFT - cough.

 

Source: PaddyPower

 

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