European trading platform Börse Berlin Equiduct Trading’s Volume-weighted Best Bid and Offer (VBBO) pricing benchmark is now available to users of data vendor Thomson Reuters’ equities data feeds. VBBO will be available through the vendor’s real-time market data deliveries. According to Börse Berlin, the VBBO provides access to pan-European best prices...
Technology firm SunGard has rolled out parts of its Brass Liquidity Services suite to the National Stock Exchange (NSX) and the RiverCross ATS crossing network. SunGard’s Brass Liquidity Services is a suite of market access solutions for both buy- and sell-side institutions, and includes sponsored access, directed and smart order routing, dark aggregat...
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has launched ultra-low latency access to its securities and derivatives platforms. The move makes SGX the fastest platform in Asia and the first to offer sub-millisecond access to its trading engines. It will enable traders from outside Singapore to access trading engines four times faster than the current rate. SGX Prox...
Wiener Börse, the operator of the Vienna Stock Exchange, plans to acquire an additional 25.5% stake in the Budapest Stock Exchange from UniCredit Bank Hungary. This will take Wiener Börse’s stake in the exchange to 37.7%. Wiener Börse is part of an Austrian consortium that owns a stake in the Budapest Stock Exchange. This latest move will take the con...
Portuguese Stock Exchange OPEX is set to start activity on PEX-MTF, its new multilateral trading facility (MTF) aimed at the Portuguese market, on 16 June. According to OPEX, the new MTF will provide an online, fully automated market for equities and was launched as a direct consequence of MiFID (EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) . Trading...
China used 42.78 billion U.S. dollars of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first five months this year, an increase of 54.97 percent from the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The growth was lower than a year-on-year growth rate of 59.32 percent used in the January-April period this year. Meanwhile, the numb...
China sold less coal abroad in the first five months largely due to efforts to ensure domestic supply, the General Administration of Customs said in Beijing on Thursday. Between January and May, China exported 18.5 million tons of coal, a decline of 4.1 percent from the same period last year. But the export value rose 48.3 percent to 1.68 billion ...
Inventories held by U.S. businesses on shelves and backlots rose by 0.5 percent in April, the best showing since inventories gained 1 percent in January, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The 0.5-percent rise in business inventories was more than double the 0.2 percent rise in March. Compared with the same month of last year, business invento...
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