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Technology ‘Big Bang’ Finally Comes to Compliance

By Peter Gardett

Hubble

A switch to electronic trading of company shares in the 1980s was part of a technology-led ‘Big Bang’ that transformed market activity, prompting both spectacular growth and innovation in the sector but also laying the groundwork for unprecedented complexity across all kinds of markets, including energy commodities. Compliance, that absolutely necessary but often despised activity,… Keep reading →

 /  Published June 4, 2013 at 12:00 PM

What Is Your Energy Company Stock Worth?

By Peter Gardett

Stocks Slide On Credit-Rating Firms' Warnings About Euro Zone

Oil companies love to say that their ownership is the average American retiree, and utilities can often claim the same. Look at your retirement account or, should you be so lucky as to have one, your company’s pension plan. Odds are that it is heavily invested in the US energy sector. Shifts in the parameters… Keep reading →

 /  Published May 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM