Market Structure Insights
February 1, 2012
While Florida voted, Morgan Stanley won the Facebook primary. A unit of Thomson Reuters broke word that the big bank will helm a team of other big banks for what in May could be the biggest IPO, raising perhaps $10 billion. We don’t care who...
January 25, 2012
Good to see you folks in Boston last week. But I needed Denver to thaw me out. It was seventy here last Saturday. I washed the car in T-shirt and flip flops. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. So it goes at...
January 17, 2012
Despite Denver’s rude throttling by the New England Patriots, I am still bound for Boston to panel at the Wednesday NIRI chapter meeting called “A Day in the Life of a Trade: How Can IROs Know What’s Really Happening?” Hope to see you there! One...
January 10, 2012
At county fairs when I was a kid you could buy a “Shoshoni Weather Gauge,” which hawkers said could forecast the weather like an American Indian. It was a rock tied with a leather strand to a wooden stand. The instructions said: “If rock is...
January 4, 2012
Happy New Year! If the holidays this year seemed sweeter, the air more welcome to the well-caroled note, it’s probably because I’ve been quiet for two straight weeks. And with good reason. The lovely KQ and I winged southward with fellow wayfarers for time over...
December 13, 2011
Editorial Note: This Market Structure Map first ran June 29, 2010. It’s reprinting because Tim Quast is following the lead of congresspersons by taking a “fact-finding junket” aboard a sailing vessel off the coast of Belize. It’s in the public interest. Oscar Wilde said that...