GM = Small Cap Stock

GM closed at $2.92 a share, their lowest level in more than 60 years (December 2nd, 1946 to be exact). I can't even find the data going back that far, but this chart shows just how far things have come. Amazingly, GM is now technically a small-cap stock according to the WSJ:Since the company’s market capitalization has roughly fallen in half in a week, the once proud Dow component is now below the $2 billion threshold used by many Wall Street trading operations to denote the difference between
Posted under Futures Trading Systems by Content Keyword RSS on Wednesday 12 November 2008 at 3:24 am

CFTC head wants new regulatory regime (Baltimore Sun)

WASHINGTON The head of the federal agency that oversees commodities trading wants to replace it and the Securities and Exchange Commission with three new regulators to better deal with an increasingly complex financial system. "I believe the United States should scrap the current outdated regulatory framework in favor of an objectives-based regulatory system consisting of three primary ...
Posted under Futures Trading Systems by Content Keyword RSS on Wednesday 12 November 2008 at 1:40 am