New rules that are part of the 2010 U.S. Dodd-Frank law meant to overhaul Wall Street after the financial crisis will put an end to privately negotiated swaps trading. Deals must now take place through the same type of order books that trading signal buy stock exchanges use, or by requesting quotes from at least two market parties, a number that will go up to three after a phase-in period. The swaps market is dominated by large banks such as Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/derivatives-trading-icap-idUSL2N0GZ0XP20130903?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS
Lesar, sold his shares at prices between US$47.00 and US$48.00 for about US$6.88 million. Pennystocksinsiders.com thinks that it is a clever way to check if insiders like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors in Halliburton are starting to buy or sell more company shares. Check this insider trade report for HAL here. Read Full Report: http://www.Pennystocksinsiders.com/PR/083013A/HAL/Halliburton.pdf Chesapeake Energy Corporation /quotes/zigman/126832/quotes/nls/chk CHK -0.15% : By the end of last trading session, the Chesapeake Energy /quotes/zigman/126832/quotes/nls/chk CHK -0.15% shares rose 1.36% (or US$0.35) to US$26.16 with about 7.29 million shares exchanged hands for the session, compared to its average volume of 10.83 million shares. Pennystocksinsiders.com found company SVP- HUMAN & CORP RESOURCES, Martha A.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/insider-trading-activities-in-halliburton-chesapeake-energy-procter-gamble-freeport-mcmoran-copper-gold-activision-blizzard-and-ciena-2013-09-04
There is no need to call a “customer service” desk, an accounting department, or a new accounts desk, only a team of well-qualified brokers capable of handling all of those tasks, is what is believed by the company management. That is what Cannon Trading has hung its hat on for the past quarter-century: the kind of customer service that this industry was founded on in the first place. In an age of electronic trading the service of having a personal broker is lost in most firms, but it has kept Cannon Trading going strong all these years. Of course service in itself is not enough.
Source: http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=PR&Date=20130904&ID=16865622
Recommendation: Trading in REITs and homebuilders this week
So can their P/E ratios. During recessions, itas not unusual to see homebuilders trading with P/E ratios north of 30. And during boom times, itas not unusual to see homebuilders trading with P/E ratios below 10. Right now, the builders are trading with P/Es in the low 20s.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recommendation-trading-reits-homebuilders-week-190139646.html
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