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Computers, Not Traders Now Make Vast Majority Of Wall Street Trades

James Sunshine | Posted 08.06.2011

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Computers are king, even on Wall Street. Today, close to 70 percent of all the trades on Wall Street are conducted by high-frequency traders, or s...

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SEC Chair Floats Ratings Agency Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Schapiro floated the possibility of cracking down on a particularly egregious Wall Street habit at a...

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SEC Chief: Tighter Oversight Of Rating Firms Needed

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday the agency must do more to tighten oversight of Wall Street's cre...

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SEC Chair Rebuffs Criticism Of Leadership During Financial Crisis

Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Cox, the embattled chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is defending his restrained approach to the financial crisis, sayin...

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Jim Cramer: Make Me The Next SEC Chairman

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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On CNBC this evening, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer offered Obama a novel option for turning around the US economy: making Jim Cramer his next SEC Chair...

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The 2002 Warning About Wall Street

New York Times | Ron Suskind | Posted 05.25.2011

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In contrast to dividends, Mr. Greenspan intoned, "Earnings are a very dubious measure" of corporate health. "Asset values are, after all, just based o...

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McCain Floats New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo As SEC Chair

DealBook | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York State, has been getting a lot of attention on Wall Street lately, making comments that liken short-s...

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SEC Chairman Christopher Cox Strikes Back At McCain

SEC | Posted 05.25.2011

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The following is a statement released by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox in response to Sen. John McCain saying earlier today on the campaign trail that ...

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