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US Department Of Justice: Visa And Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit To Block - Decision To Terminate Deal Preserves Competition

Date 12/01/2021

The Department of Justice announced today that Visa Inc. and Plaid Inc. have abandoned their planned $5.3 billion merger.

Nasdaq Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date December 31, 2020

Date 12/01/2021

At the end of the settlement date of December 31, 2020, short interest in 2,570 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 8,444,669,455 shares compared with 8,245,773,085 shares in 2,569 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 15, 2020. The end-of-December short interest represent 2.58 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.21 days for the prior reporting period.

NYSE Group Consolidated Short Interest Report

Date 12/01/2021

NYSE today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of December 31, 2020.

CFTC Commissioner Berkovitz To Speak At The American Bar Association Derivatives And Futures Law Winter Conference

Date 12/01/2021

SIFMA Fixed Income Market Close Recommendations In The U.S., The U.K. And Japan For The U.S. Martin Luther King Day

Date 12/01/2021

SIFMA has confirmed its previous recommendation for a full market close on Monday, January 18 for the trading of U.S. dollar-denominated fixed income securities in the U.S., U.K. and Japan in observance of the U.S. Martin Luther King Day Holiday.

SEC Acting Enforcement Director Marc P. Berger To Depart The Commission

Date 12/01/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Marc P. Berger, Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement, will conclude his tenure at the agency this month. Mr. Berger joined the Commission as Director of the New York Regional Office in December 2017 and was named Deputy Director of the Division of Enforcement in August 2020.

TMX Group Limited Announces Release Date For Q4 2020 Financial Results And Analyst Conference Call

Date 12/01/2021

TMX Group Limited will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2020 in the evening of Monday, February 8, 2021. An analyst conference call to review the results will be held at 8:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, February 9, 2021.

BIS: E-commerce In The Pandemic And Beyond

Date 12/01/2021

Key takeaways

• E-commerce has ramped up during the pandemic around the world. The growth has differed across sectors and over different stages of the pandemic. Novel data sources can help to follow these trends.
• The growth of e-commerce has been higher in countries where there were more stringent containment measures and where e-commerce was initially less developed.
• Some changes in consumers' shopping habits and payment behaviour may be longer-lasting. This may have implications for structural change and the growth of the digital economy.

SEC Charges Real Estate Fund Manager With Misappropriating Over $7 Million From Retail Investors

Date 12/01/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged fund manager Eric C. Malley and his company MG Capital Management L.P. with defrauding retail investors in two real estate funds managed by MG Capital.

BIS: Trade Sentiment And The Stock Market: New Evidence Based On Big Data Textual Analysis Of Chinese Media

Date 12/01/2021

Summary

Focus

Trade tensions between China and the United States have created volatility in the global stock market in recent years, but their effects are difficult to quantify. News items related to tariffs and other factors, including trade barriers between the two countries, have made the analysis of these effects particularly challenging. For this reason, the literature has thus far mainly analysed case studies that refer to specific episodes with a time horizon of just a few days.