Some of you may have followed a ‘marmite’ celebrity reality TV show during the last three weeks. What is of interest to some is what happens as contestants leave - how the camp dynamics change following a significant departure.
Perhaps there ought to be a Sanity Clause to prevent envious kids turning litigious when they think they got a smaller pressie than other family members.
Unaddressable letters to Santa may not find their rightful destination. Fortunately, with a flying sleigh, few destinations are inaccessible. Especially using Santa-Nav.
At this indulgent time of the year we’re all hungry (and thirsty) for market structure knowledge as well as a festive tipple. So here’s our guide to merry market mechanisms.
Imagine, after many years of demand, someone creates the concept of an airline price comparison site to help the population find the cheapest flight more easily. It would include prices for the best flights between cities on the map. That would be a welcome introduction. However, what if the national governments insisted that the site would only be allowed if the names of the airlines were not disclosed?
Level fhive data discovery creates buzz in the market, providing new trading insights. One benefit of lockdownand the recent trend towards reestablishing conditions to encourage bio diversity has been the resurgent bee population to the delight of environmentalists and honey lovers alike.
With his circumnavigation complete, Father Christmas has earned some rest and recuperation, as have all of you after a year of challenges and surprises. Looking back over the last five years of this campaign, we thought it would be fun and perhaps of interest to reintroduce an old favourite - the big xy Tree.
Father Christmas has continued his journey west and is now on the final leg of his deliveries. Like Vespucci, Columbus et. al. (Jolson, Capone, Pacino?) he is keen to learn more about this great continent before him.
RFQs - Ready for Quality Street…… Roses, Celebrations or whatever the contents might be in the festive family bowl of chocolates? One thing is for sure, there’ll be some variety at the bottom which lie there having left a bad taste in the mouth.
Of course, Santa has plenty of friends and it looks like some people in the market have some pals in Prague as the dark caps are looking to be relaxed (if not abolished) under the Czech presidency. The restrictions around Systematic Internaliser trading could also be eased. Given the proposed changes mentioned this week, we take a look at how DVC and SI activity has changed over time, which may help us anticipate what to expect next. But hold on, it just occurred to us that this actually has a lot in common with a practice in equity markets. Managing index constituents during a rebalance with a target benchmark of the Closing Price.
