The Justinian

I’ve recently realized that the industry I work in is a microcosm of markets globally. Retail spot forex (foreign exchange, currency trading, FX) has rapidly gone through the phases of initiation and fast growth, and is in the middle of the “new competition” phase in the United States at least. This is where […]

In recent articles I’ve discussed the two primary options for trading the price of oil directly. One is oil futures, and the other the oil ETF (exchange traded fund, symbol USO). I recently became aware of another option, which is as close as a private investor can get to trading spot oil, to […]

I read an article recently in the Wall Street Journal about a guy who shook the sports betting market when his picks were released. This article mentions the size of the sports betting volume rivaling the GDP of New Zealand. It’s no wonder why the United States would want to keep this money […]

Bid $5 billion. That’s what the Nasdaq chose to do in its latest effort to purchase the London Stock Exchange. The LSE has twice rejected Nasdaq’s offer, first for the equivalent of 950p (in March 2006), and this time for over 25% more, or 12.43 sterling. It seems the American exchange that […]

This is a no-brainer right? Practically all of the major Web 2.0 sites are in the United States. Craigslist, Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube, technorati, etc to name a few. Granted, the $1.65 billion YouTube sale was to a public company, but it didn’t IPO. Europe will be first as Deutsche Bank […]