The primary concern is about the reduced liquidity in the marketplace. While the development of a parallel market can be welcome for some segments of investors, are we in a situation where we can afford to create markets for different investor classes? Also, these markets can cause major grief to institutions in a depressed/ing market condition, prompting even default, as there are no means and measures devised to regulate and streamline flows.
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To make comparisons between the subprime liquidity crisis and Dark pools is totally irresponsible. Also this article fails to mention... [MORE]
Darth Siduous
May 19, 2008 15:36
while, on the surface, these "dark pools" may not offer any threat to the individual investor, over the long haul... [MORE]
fred trautman
Oct 17, 2007 21:09
What conceivable public service does the growth in Dark Pools provide? There was a time when the SEC used to... [MORE]
John Ballard
Oct 16, 2007 10:41
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