1. Stock exchange
 LSE claims quickest trading speed (October 11 2010)
China’s interest rate rise sends glibal markets
into turmoil (October 19 2010)
Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn offer for
Australian stock exchange (October 25 2010)

2. China’s interest rate rise sends
global markets into turmoil (october 19
2010)
 China increased benchmark intrest rate by 25
points
Financial market into
turmoil
 Increase was flagged as internal
signal
 Attempts to artifically depress the currency
values

3. China’s interest rate rise sends
global markets into turmoil (october 19
2010)
 £ fell more than 2 cents against $
 € 1% lower than day before
 Stock markets reacted badly
 FTSE 100 dropped more than 30 points
 Dow Jones industrial dropped 146 points

4. Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn
offer for Australian stock
exchange(October 25 2010)
 Signapore stock exchange making
takeover offer for the ASX
offer= $8.3bn cash and
shares
Target ? From second tier-market to the
leading Asian finance centre

5. Signapore Bourse makes $8.3bn
offer for Australian stock
exchange(October 25 2010)
 5th largest in the world by market value
 2nd largest stock market in Asia  by ♯of
listed companies
 Market value = $12.3 bn
 Responsible for 2700 companies
 Ranking : Tokyo
Hongkong
Shangai
Singapore

6. LSE claims quickest trading
speed
October 11 2010
 LSE new record fastest trading speed
 Millennium IT  bought by the UK bourse
 Trading venues pushing to operate faster
 124 microseconds
 time between input and exchange

7. LSE claims quickest trading
speed
October 11 2010
 To fight competition
 Latency = cutting the speed of trading
 Volume
 Interesting ?  High-frequency traders at banks
 Specialist proprietary trading firms
 Hedge funds
regulated investment fund

8. Sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk
www.vertalen.nu
www.google.be

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