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Goldman Sachs and NYSE Transparency

D&S Admin Jul 8, 2009

More on the brewing Goldman Sachs scandal we posted on a couple of days ago. This is a post from Prison Planet with some details from Matt Taibbi's article in the current issue of Rolling Stone.

Taibbi: NYSE ends transparency to protect Goldman Sachs

The NYSE has taken action to make sure that nobody will henceforth be able to keep track of the complete dominance that Goldman Sachs exerts over the New York Stock Exchange. This basically ends our weekly Program Trading updates disclosed every Thursday indicating that Goldman has singlehandedly captured all of NYSE's program trading.
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