TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19
Newsflash: Stocks Are Not Grain

Stocks are getting pummeled much in the same way that grain is not. And yet $16.3 trillion of shares have traded on Wall Street so far this year. Stocks are not driving up the cost of Eggo waffles or Italian pasta. Stocks did not reach a record $11.53 a bushel last week. And yet…and yet traders remain hot as ever for equities. A look at how the advent of electronic trading, coupled with risk-takers’ affinity for price swings, has buttressed a rather surreal heyday in the stock market.

February 2008

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