Market movements

Panel of regulators flags financial stability risks from pandemic

12/03/20

The economic fallout from COVID-19 has highlighted systemic concerns about commercial real estate exposure, business debt and short-term wholesale funding, the Financial Stability Oversight Council said in an annual report.

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Policymakers shouldn’t bail on plan to prevent next ‘flash crash’

11/08/17

Wall Street and its allies in the House are trying to kill the Consolidated Audit Trail, a supercomputer that will allow regulators to detect market abuses, punish wrongdoers and better understand why markets sometimes crash.

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What an MIT professor learned by monitoring traders’ emotions

01/30/17

Andrew Lo straps sensors to traders and watches how their pulses and body temperatures change when markets dive or trades go bad. The technology could be used elsewhere in a bank to address problems before they escalate.

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