Hold Your Nose
Don't look now, but while the Peoples' Exchange is partying, the
New York Stock Exchange
is collapsing -- and the bonds are turning into a ghost town.
The latter two make all of the sense in the world, as they prey on each other. The institutions trade on New York and they are still bound by things such as
Modern Portfolio Theory
and
Dividend Discount Models
and other arcane bits of Wall Street memorabilia.
Nasdaq
, however, is total scrum and if you split your stock or got a favorable article over the weekend, you are still zooming.
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I, personally, think we can't trade like this. We can't have some
Tale of Two Cities
thing going forever. Internally, even
Matt "Don't call me Bonds" Jacobs
is a little freaked out by the have/have not markets.
Don't smell too good.
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