About 60% of stock market transactions are now coming from computers fed with algorithms based on great quantities of data. That may account for the extremely low volatility registered recently as competing algorithms buy and sell, trying to eke out profits from minimum movements in prices. Another factor is the policy of many companies implementing stock buyback programmes that benefit shareholders and reward executives by keeping the shares of the company at ever higher prices even though earnings do not justify the rise in the stock price.
Deutsche Bank has received from the US authorities the request to pay $ 14 bn to close the case into mortgage-backed securities. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the facts are previous to the outbreak of the 2008 crisis that led to the failure of Lehman Brothers. Certainly, if the figure is confirmed, it would not only among the highest paid to resolve similar issues but it would much over analysts’ expectations of the German group.
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