| JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK |
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| The 49 Most Fascinating, Mind-Blowing, Challenging, Hilarious, and Urgent Titles of the Year |
Before the end of every year, we reach out to the more than 2,500 journalists who work at Bloomberg’s 150-plus bureaus around the world and ask them to poll the newsmakers they cover in search of our best books of the year. The results might seem random at first. Going There, the gossipy tell-all from news anchor Katie Couric, has very little in common with a volume that bears the name Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
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| 10 MOST CLICKED STORIES OF THE WEEK |
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| 4 MOST CLICKED MARKETSWIKI PAGES OF THE WEEK |
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| | | Fed to Reduce Bond Purchases in March; Trader Bet $65 Million in Options; Blockbuster Options Activity Recorded |
– Fed Moves Up Bond Taper, $65 Mln Option Bet & Blockbuster Options Activity in Alex Perry's Optionstopia – Cboe looks at Meme Stock and Options Trading in John's Take. – "European-Style Options" is the Term of the Week by tastytrade's Jermal Chandler.
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| | | CANNABIS SHARES UNDERPERFORM GOING INTO YEAR-END AMID U.S. REGULATORY LOGJAM |
Although adult-use sales of cannabis remain robust in U.S. states where it is legal, Nasdaq IR Intelligence analyst Saleem Daya sees continued stock underperformance across the cannabis space going into year-end, building on activity in the second and third quarters of 2021.
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| | | NEW FTSE RUSSELL RESEARCH LINKS ESG PERFORMANCE WITH PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS |
The long-running pandemic has thrown much of the global economy off-kilter in the last two years, but some sectors have nonetheless thrived – ESG among them. Capital linked to FTSE Russell’s sustainable Investment indexes, for example, has grown to more than $167 billion, according to the company’s year-end insight from Arne Staal, the CEO of FTSE Russell.
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| | | FIA: GLOBAL EXCHANGE-TRADED VOLUME UP 38.8% IN NOVEMBER; OPEN INTEREST POSTS RECORD |
The continued investor appetite for equity derivatives helped push global exchange-traded volume higher again in November, according to the FIA’s monthly report released on Monday. The group said 6.17 billion futures and options contracts were traded in the month of November, an increase of 11.5% from October and up 38.8% from November 2020.
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| | | BROADWAY 2.0’S LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE |
Michael Chin is the CEO of Broadway Technology, which recently went through a rebrand and is now just Broadway. The path to Broadway 2.0, as Chin called it, was an unusual one. Chin was interviewed recently by John Lothian News about its journey from acquisition to independence.
Broadway Technology has been working on a renewal since it was spun out of ION Trading after the U.K.’s Competitive Markets Authority told ION it had to spin back out most of Broadway because of overlap in both firms’ fixed income offerings.
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