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Understanding Dark Pools

Geoff Riley

28th June 2014

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Over forty per cent of US equities are now traded off exchange in so called dark pools. This 60 second FT video looks at the emergence of dark pools of liquidity in the US equities market. Dark pools offer a means by which traders can remain anonymous until they have completed their stock market trades. They were brought into fresh prominence earlier this year by the publication of Flash Boys by Michael Lewis.

Financial Times Video

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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