Stock exchange

LSE claims quickest trading speed (October 11 2010)

China’s interest rate rise sends glibal markets into turmoil (October 19 2010)

Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn offer for Australian stock exchange (October 25 2010)

China’s interest rate rise sends global markets into turmoil (october

19 2010)

China increased benchmark intrest rate by 25 points

Financial market into turmoil

Increase was flagged as internal signal

Attempts to artifically depress the currency values

China’s interest rate rise sends global markets into turmoil (october 19 2010)

£ fell more than 2 cents against $€ 1% lower than day before

Stock markets reacted badly

FTSE 100 dropped more than 30 points

Dow Jones industrial dropped 146 points

Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn offer for Australian stock exchange(October 25 2010)

Signapore stock exchange making takeover offer for the ASX

offer= $8.3bn cash and shares

Target ? From second tier-market to the leading Asian finance centre

Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn offer for Australian stock exchange(October 25 2010)

5th largest in the world by market value 2nd largest stock market in Asia by ♯of listed companies

Market value = $12.3 bn Responsible for 2700 companies

Ranking :

Tokyo

Hongkong

Shangai

Singapore

LSE claims quickest trading speedOctober 11 2010

LSE new record fastest trading speed

Millennium IT bought by the UK bourse

Trading venues pushing to operate faster

124 microseconds

time between input and exchange

LSE claims quickest trading speedOctober 11 2010

To fight competition

Latency = cutting the speed of trading Volume

Interesting ? High-frequency traders at banks

Specialist proprietary trading firms

Hedge funds

regulated investment fund

Sources

http://www.guardian.co.ukwww.vertalen.nuwww.google.be

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