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• The New York Stock Exchange is slowing down trading for a key market

  21-05-2017 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York Stock Exchange has won approval for plans to introduce a 350-microsecond delay in trading on its market for small-cap companies.
  The delay will apply to NYSE American, the market previously known at NYSE MKT, and will be similar to the so-called speed bump introduced by IEX, America's newest stock exchange.
  The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a notice on Tuesday May 16 approving the proposal. 
  The NYSE had lobbied aggressively against approval for IEX fr
  
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• Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes

  21-05-2017 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you've been in the market for your dream home, you may have found that it's particularly difficult to find one right now. 
  Housing inventory has rached historic lows across the country, and competition is heating up. 
  According to an analysis conducted by real-estate site Zillow in April, there are 3% fewer homes on the market than there were a year ago. Homes are also spending less and less time on the market. Nationally, it takes an average of 103 days for a ho
  
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• Sears' CEO blames the media for company's decline — but his obsession with Wall Street set it up for failure (SHLD)

  21-05-2017 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sears Holdings spent $5.8 billion buying back shares from 2005 to 2010, draining the company of resources.
  CEO Eddie Lampert defended the buybacks as the most efficient use of capital, arguing that investment in stores wasn't necessary.
  The company — considered the most vulnerable publicly traded retailer — is now selling off assets to stay afloat.
  Sears has survived two world wars and the Great Depression. But after a decade under the control of a former Goldman Sachs executive turn
  
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• Stocks don't need the Trump bump anymore

  21-05-2017 12:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Does the stock market even need the Trump trade anymore?
  Merely posing such a question may strike some equity enthusiasts as blasphemy. After all, in the months right after the presidential election, the sectors seen as most closely tied to President Donald Trump's proposed policies — most notably financials and industrials — soared.
  But an interesting wrinkle has formed. Whenever one of the plentiful negative Trump headlines hits news wires, investors are mostly unshaken. A pri
  
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• Here are the biggest bets made by top hedge funds in the first quarter

  21-05-2017 02:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here they are: The darlings of hedge fund stock pickers. 
  S&P Global Intelligence has released its Hedge Fund Tracker, which takes a look at the holdings of the ten largest pure play hedge funds.
  Such firms focus on stock picking, have less than 100 positions, and are more activist in their nature than other hedge funds.
  Viking Global Investors, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm, came in at number one with $23.8 billion in assets, according to the report.
  In total, th
  
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