Newswire messages make up a major part of the public information set available to investors. The last decades have seen drastic changes in trading technology and the way that financial markets operate. As trading technology advances, news providers have kept pace and deliver news to market...

The last decades have seen dramatic changes in trading technology and the way that financial markets operate. As trading technology advances, news providers have kept pace and deliver news to market participants around the world within fractions of a second using electronic systems. Currently,...

The introduction of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) ended the quasi-monopoly of national exchanges in equity trading across Europe and enabled alternative platforms, so-called multilateral trading facilities (MTF), to compete for order flow. This thesis analyzes...

Financial markets have undergone a dramatic technological transformation. Electronic and centralized limit order books dominate the organized securities exchange landscape. Banks and fund companies have invested in trading technology to improve their trade generation and monitoring processes....