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...past few weeks, all this has become controversial. Flash orders - a feature offered by some exchanges that allows high-volume traders the advantage of posting orders for up to half a second and then removing them - have drawn the ire of the authorities. Related revelations about the high-speed, almost fully computerized nature of modern stock markets have occasioned no small amount of fear and loathing. (See pictures of a Madoff family album...
...Harvard, freshmen have the reputation of doing so extensively. You will do all your reading, take verbatim notes in lecture, and make skyscraper-like stacks of flash cards to study for exams. Seniors in your sections will snicker at your youthful eagerness...
Alex Demyanenko, a television producer and food-truck devotee, says the presence of the truck can build a minisociety in minutes. "It's like a flash mob," he says. "When the truck arrives, people start coming out from every direction - and there's a community atmosphere. People meet other people. Everyone is there to share in the experience of that truck." Case adds that in a sprawling city like Los Angeles, where traffic is permanently gridlocked, being mobile means being able to cultivate a broader fan base. "It breaks down the urban fabric," she says. "We are neighborhood-specific...
...Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), concerned about the exponential growth of hyper-frequency trading, announced on Tuesday, Aug. 4, that it was considering a ban on one form of this activity, known as flash trading. But it has said nothing about an even bigger element of high-frequency trading, known as co-location, even as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is building two new facilities to house such traders...
...flash, the White House issued its own statement: No, he hadn...