Markets and indexes

JPMorgan creates 'Volfefe Index' to track Trump tweet impact

09/09/19

Make market volatility great again? Analysts at JPMorgan Chase have created an index to gauge the impact of Donald Trump's tweets on U.S. interest rates, which they say is on the rise.

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Protecting new currency from old-school market manipulation

03/01/19

Crypto exchanges are adopting anti-fraud surveillance tools as they attempt to root out pump-and-dump schemes, insider trading and bogus orders.

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U.S. agencies said to tell Mnuchin markets functioning normally

12/24/18

Top U.S. financial regulators assured Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a hastily organized call they are seeing nothing out of the ordinary in markets.

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Mnuchin called CEOs of largest banks to talk market stability

12/23/18

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called top executives from the six largest U.S. banks over the weekend, he said Sunday on Twitter, a move that followed heavy losses in the stock market last week and a partial federal government shutdown.

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Battered banks suffer their worst week in more than two years

03/23/18

Bank stocks just took a huge beating. The KBW Bank Index plunged 8 percent this week, its worst showing since January 2016.

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What’s really holding back blockchain in financial services

07/11/17

It’s not speed, which will steadily if not exponentially increase in the near term. It’s the centralists that are holding onto their roles as reconcilers of data.

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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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