Citadel Securities, Jane Street on track for record revenue haul
First-half net trading revenue rose 81% to $4.9 billion from the same period a year earlier at Citadel Securities, and gained 78% to $8.4 billion at Jane Street.
First-half net trading revenue rose 81% to $4.9 billion from the same period a year earlier at Citadel Securities, and gained 78% to $8.4 billion at Jane Street.
The market action comes as traders narrow in on bets that the Fed will kick off its easing cycle with a 25-basis-point reduction in September, rather than a larger 50-basis-point move.
There's no convincing evidence that central banks' purchases of trillions of dollars of bonds and other financial assets helped any economy.
The central bank is still pretending that its policies won't hurt much. That's not a good sign.
Technology is helping big banks gain market share and is more likely to drive consolidation in the years ahead than regional bank mergers.
We're at the moment that regulators and market participants have been fearing, which is that there will be more episodes when parts of the market seized up.
Paul Volcker, who vanquished elevated inflation as Fed chair, "had a kind of false start," as recounted in a recent opinion piece by former Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin.
So the 'cheat code' in the bond market for me and for our strategy is: Where can you limit risk or where can you lower risk in a high-yield security?
Investors aren't necessarily the ones getting cold feet despite interest-rate uncertainty and economists' growing warnings of a potential recession.
Even Larry Fink, BlackRock's chief executive officer, has been known to mix up ESG with SRI. And now so is Texas, in an interesting twist on the theme.
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