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Did machine traders fan this week's stock market panic?
The large and violent moves in global equity markets have raised questions as to whether high frequency and algorithmic trading systems exacerbated movements and made financial markets unstable. On Monday's open the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index plunged 1000 points after the exchange invoked "rule 48" to bring an orderly open to sharemarket trading. "What we have seen in the opening in the US on Monday was a little unusual," the head of the Australian Securities Exchange Elmer Funke Kupper told The Australian Financial Review. "But the US is, of course, very strongly driven by high ... (full story)
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