Messing With Data aka When “Art” Smashes into “Science” in Wall Street’s Version of the Hadron Collider MarketsMuse Fixed Income update comes consequent to the Fed's June 5 release of Employment Data, and below is courtesy of extracted comments delivered to institutional clients of Mischler Financial Group under the banner…Read More

MarketsMuse ETF department extends our congrats to exchange-traded fund guru Matt Hougan in connection with announcement this week that Matt has been elevated to the role of CEO of industry platform ETF.com. ETF.com, the world’s leading authority on ETFs, named Matt Hougan, a longtime veteran in the world of exchange-traded…Read More

The barrier to entry for issuers of ETFs keeps getting lower. What used to cost anywhere between $1mil-$5mil and many months of filing paper work to create and finally launch a new ETF, now, for just only $100k (before marketing/advertising costs), you too can launch an exchange-traded fund in under…Read More

MarketsMuse update is courtesy of a truly inspiring initiative on the part of Mischler Financial Group, the broker-dealer industry's oldest firm owned and operated by Wall Street vets who are also Service-Disabled Veterans. Mischler Financial Memorial Day Month Pledge: May Profits to Semper Fi Fund For Immediate Release Newport Beach,…Read More

The US Government Bond Market is set to explode...with more e-trading systems.. MarketsMuse Tech Talk continues its curating of fintech stories from the world of fixed income and today's update is courtesy of WSJ's Katy Burne, who does a superb job (as always) in summarizing the latest assortment of US…Read More

MarketsMuse Strike Price update profiles a “return from the past and into the future” look at what many veteran (and former) option mart floor traders had all but given up for lost thanks to the electronification and bifurcation of institutional options trading. We’re talking about those legacy, open-outcry trading pits,…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update profiles Goldman Sachs preparing for a launch of its own ETFs. Goldman Sachs is the largest U.S. investment bank and they are finally going to make the move to become a huge player in the ETF industry.  The firm has completed all its necessary paperwork with the SEC as…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk update profiles the latest development regarding Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne  plan for a cryptosecurity trading system "for brokerdealers" only and akin to the array of ECNs and ATS platforms that Fintech aficionados and broker-dealers  are already accustomed to. The headline: Overstock looks to issue Bitcoin-style stocks via…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update profiles U.S. Global Investors CEO's, Frank Holmes, interview with Forbes' Trang Ho. Frank Holmes's company is launching a new airline ETF, JETS, tomorrow, Thursday, April 29, 2015. After so many past airline ETFs have crashed and burned, Holmes highlights how JETS is different. This interview is courtesy of Forbes'…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Global Macro update necessarily touches on the hyperbole and couch quarterbacking connected to yesterday’s earnings announcement from Apple Inc ($AAPL), which included a big bump in planned corporate share buyback and increased dividend. Our editors were particularly entertained by below extract from today’s edition of global macro trading commentary…Read More

MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk aka Fintech update profiles the latest from Symphony, the brokerdealer-backed financial communications program that is looking to make the Bloomberg terminals (or at least their most-used messaging application) mute. This David v. Goliath type battle pitting well-backed upstarts against the ubiquitous Bloomberg LP could become a trend…Read More

MarketsMuse.com ETF update profiles the embracement of exchange-traded funds on the part of one of the investment industry’s most intriguing mutual fund innovators, courtesy of excerpt from 18 April 19 story from InvestmentNews.com Jeffrey Gundlach is no stranger to striking out on his own or launching new products. After an…Read More

MarketsMuse is known for being both a curator of financial market news as well as a part-time pontificating platform, and yet our altruistic editorial team actually likes to lean towards and forward to our followers select stories that profile the truly compelling "social-sensitive" initiatives spearheaded by Wall Street banks. While…Read More

Just when you thought the world of electronic bond trading had become saturated, MarketsMuse.com Fixed Income and Trading Tech departments continues coverage of the increasingly popular fixation on the part of entrepreneurs and technology firms, who have set up nearly two dozen new markets to trade corporate debt. In the…Read More

TradeWeb's Raazi is out after short stint pitching the merits of electronifying the corporate bond market. MarketsMuse.com has made more than a few mentions about the recent decade’s corporate bond-centric electronic trading platform initiatives and those being spearheaded by the latest generation of altruistic sell-siders, buysiders, and the assortment of…Read More

The senior curator for MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk section was so inspired by a recent article "A Cynic's Guide to Fintech" by Dan Davies, the Senior Research Advisor at Frontline Analysts and published via Medium.com, we wanted to share the opening elements with our audience..For those of you following the various…Read More

MarketsMuse.com global macro trading snapshot is courtesy of excerpt from 7 April edition of macro strategy commentary from "Sight Beyond Sight", a publication of Rareview Macro LLC and authored by 20-year industry expert, Neil Azous. [caption id="attachment_2349" align="alignleft" width="150"] Neil Azous, Rareview Macro[/caption] Over the past two trading days, three…Read More

MarketsMuse.com merges Fixed Income and FinTech with continuing coverage of the corporate bond market’s effort to evolutionize via electronification with a focus on yet the latest innovator initiative courtesy of Goldman Sachs alumni Amar Kuchinad and his start-up“Electronofie.” Our hats are off in salute to the catchy company name and…Read More