The Fed Really Wants to Lower Interest Rates-Here’s Why..
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
While 99% of market pundits have been busy for the past months laying odds and making bets as to precisely when and how much the Fed will raise interest rates, a small universe of Fed Watchers have picked up on a surprising nuance that few seasoned market experts have even calculated into their outlooks. Its […] Read More

14 October, 2015

Plato’s Exec Retreat-A Blow to European Dark Pool Project?
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg) via (TradersMagazine) MarketsMuse Fintech team notes that Deutsche Bank AG’s Stephen McGoldrick, who was leading a consortium of banks and asset managers in developing a new European dark pool for stocks, has decided to leave the project. McGoldrick will return to his role as director of market structure at Deutsche Bank, according to a spokeswoman. Plato […] Read More

14 October, 2015

Sell This Rumor: Hedge Funds Exploit ETF Ecosystem
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
The battle between business news pontificaters across the 4th estate is in full season, as evidenced by a smart article yesterday by Bloomberg LP’s Eric Balchunas and suggests that MarketsMuse curators are apparently not the only topic experts who noticed and took aim at a recent WSJ article that proclaimed savvy hedge fund types are […] Read More

13 October, 2015

Is an ETF for Equity Crowdfunding Far Off?-Global Directory…
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
For followers of the global equity crowdfund movement and fintech aficionados who are fluent in ‘what’s next?’, this is a big news week from the crowdfund world. Yesterday, MarketsMuse curators spotlighted a just-launched trading exchange that brings billions of dollars worth of private shares into the wacky world of secondary market trading. While there are […] Read More

7 October, 2015

What’s Next? A Real Trading Exchange for Crowdfund Industry
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse FinTech curators feigned no surprise when noticing today’s announcement from the City of London profiling a new initiative just launched today that will accommodate equity crowdfund investors–a real, live exchange to trade out of equity crowdfund investments. To paraphrase the opening observation from global crowdfund directory and search platform RaiseMoney.com… “…From the “What Will […] Read More

6 October, 2015

This BrokerDealer Continues to Help Lead The Way
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse extends a warm salute to the nation’s oldest and largest minority brokerdealer owned and operated by service-disabled military veterans in connection with the following news announcement.. Oct 5 2015–Stamford, CT and Newport Beach CA–Mischler Financial Group, Inc., the financial industry’s oldest and largest institutional brokerage and investment bank owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans […] Read More

6 October, 2015

Classic Counter-Trend Tuesday; You Date Equities But Marry Credit
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
“To put it bluntly, what headline writers or traders are selling you today is a load of bollocks.” Neil Azous, Rareview Macro LLC When global macro guru Neil Azous of Rareview Macro appeared on CNBC midday yesterday, MarketsMuse curators had already absorbed and relayed his recent views about energy prices, as well as his relatively […] Read More

6 October, 2015

Risk Takers Cry Out In Terror-A Rareview With Sight…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
Professional Investment Community Cries Out in Agony and They Don’t Yet Know Exactly Why MarketsMuse Strike Price and Global Macro curators voted the Oct 5 edition of global macro advisory firm Rareview Macro’s Sight Beyond Sight the best read of the week. Yes, its only Monday, but those who follow this newsletter as we do […] Read More

5 October, 2015

Corporate Bond Market-Balancing on a Knife Edge
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Fixed Income Update “Corporate Bond Market- Balancing on a Knife Edge” is courtesy of extract from the 10.02.15 weekend edition of “Quigley’s Corner”, a daily synopsis of the investment grade corporate bond market and rates trading space authored by Ron Quigley, Managing Director of investment bank and institutional brokerage Mischler Financial Group, the financial […] Read More

3 October, 2015

BATS Exchange Goes Bats Again;Pay For Orders, Now Pay…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse ETF Curators debated on the title to this story, and first suggested the headline “Has BATS Gone Bats?!” While market structure experts continue to debate the topic of pay-to-play, i.e. payment for order flow schemes, BATS Global Markets, the youngest and arguably, now one of the largest electronic exchanges in the global marketplace based […] Read More

1 October, 2015

How Savvy Hedge Funds Exploit ETF Products-Supposedly
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
While equities markets have zig-zagged since late summer with lots of volatility,  leading to pretty much no change in major indices since late August, news media outlets have put their cross hairs on the ETF industry, which has been battered with criticism consequent to out-0f-context pricing that has riddled opening bell markets during recent spikes […] Read More

30 September, 2015

LiquidNet: Make Corporate Bond Trading More Liquid [For Buyside…
In Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Many fixed income folks are lamenting about liquidity in the corporate bond market. LiquidNet, the institutional trading platform is determined to make corporate bond trading more liquid..for the buyside. Just when you thought e-bond trading for corporate bonds was a never ending pipe dream… Liquidnet Launches Fixed Income Dark Pool to Centralize Institutional Trading of […] Read More

30 September, 2015

Is London the New FinTech Capital? Cheers!
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
The FinTech aka financial technology revolution continues to advance across the financial industry landscape, as dozens of startups from block chain to bond trading initiatives work towards securing a presence within the institutional financial services ecosystem. And, as profiled in a brilliant column this week from Institutional Investor spotlighted by MarketsMuse tech talk curators, the […] Read More

30 September, 2015

Why Glencore is Going to Cause Gas- A Global…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse news curators have spotted dozens of commentaries from leading equities and debt market pundits opining about global mining giant Glencore. There is only one comment that offered a truly rare view that struck a chord, and it is courtesy of this morning’s edition of global macro newsletter “Sight Beyond Sight”, which is published by […] Read More

28 September, 2015

ProShares’ Burger King Idea: “Ex-Sector” ETF Menu
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Hold the pickles, and hold the lettuce…Just when MarketsMuse curators and an assortment of ETF market enthusiasts thought there might already be enough themes, toppings and twists to the growing number of exchange-traded funds, ProShares is taking a page straight out of Burger King’s 1970’s branding campaign via a newly-launched menu of “ex-sector ETFs.”  The […] Read More

27 September, 2015

Watch Out Wall Street-The Big Short is Coming
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
For Wall Street bankers and brokers who have been in the business since at least the early 2000’s and are still working on the Street, and who think you’ve already been pilloried plenty for the work you do, watch out, former Lehman broker-turned best-selling author Michael Lewis (“Liar’s Poker“, “Money Ball“, “Flash Boys“) isn’t finished […] Read More

23 September, 2015

The Volcano Trade, Vontae Mack and VXX
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Global Macro merges with Strike Price seers with sage excerpt from 18 Sept edition of “Sight Beyond Sight”, the daily newsletter published by global macro think tank Rareview Macro and authored by Managing Member Neil Azous and rising star Michael Sedacca…For fans of the film Draft Day, this excerpt will resonate in a resounding […] Read More

18 September, 2015

Wanted: Fed-Watching Pundits: Requirement: Coin-Tossing Skills
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse editors were relieved yesterday after the Fed announcement for two reasons; the first being we were reminded that at least half of Wall Street’s Fed-watching pundits who get paid big bucks to predict events can be replaced by anyone who can flip a coin, as half of the pundits were wrong and arguably, at […] Read More

18 September, 2015