This paper studies the impact of public information on trading and market fragmentation in FTSE 100 stocks on the LSE and on Chi-X, the largest multilateral trading facility in Europe. We proxy daily public information through newswire messages which we di erentiate by their ex-ante sentiment....

Since the implementation of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), multilateral trading facilities (MTF) have broken down the quasi-monopoly which has been traditionally held by national exchanges across Europe. To date, incumbent exchanges and various MTFs fiercely...

How information is translated into market prices is still an open question. This paper studies the impact of newswire messages on intraday price discovery, liquidity, and trading intensity in an electronic limit order market. We take an objective ex-ante measure of the tone of a message to study...

We study the trading behavior of retail investors in the market of leveraged bank-issued retail derivatives designed to trade excessively, speculate and gamble on ongoing trends and market movements. We analyze whether retail investors have private information and benefit disproportionately or...