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Elizabeth Warren: “If you are buying a stock and turning it around and selling it within a minute, within a second later to someone else…”

On the recordJuly 7, 2014
If you are buying a stock and turning it around and selling it within a minute, within a second later to someone else, how does that provide liquidity to the markets?
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren challenges the notion of high-frequency trading providing market liquidity.

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