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The article discusses so-called high-frequency securities trading, in which securities are bought and sold via computer programs at a rate of thousands per second by individual traders. Efforts by stock exchanges in emerging markets such as Brazil and Singapore to install technology to attract high-...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 396; no. 8695; pp. 60 - 62
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 8/14/2010
Subjects:
Securities trading
Program trading (Securities)
Electronic trading of securities
Data processing in stock exchanges
Emerging markets
Developing countries
Equipment & supplies
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