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FINRA 'Discipline' Alert! Instinet, Owned by Nomura (Lehman Bros' 2008 Purchaser), Caught Breaking Rules, Lacking Supervision, Misclassifying Orders, and Straight Up Misreporting Trades from 2015-2019. Same Time GameStop Boxed, Cohencidence?

Penalty? Censure, $165,000 fine without admitting wrong. Source: https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2018057165801%20Instinet%2C%20LLC%20CRD%207897%20AWC%20va%20%282023-1673223595507%29.pdf Good evening Superstonk, neighborhood jellyfish bact with you again! I would like to share some more FINRA 'discipline'

FINRA 'Discipline' Alert! Barclays Overstates Trading Volume in Thousands of Instances, Inflating Its Reported Data to Bloomberg by Approximately 147 Million Shares! Bloomberg Published It. Penalty? A Censure and a $175,000 Fine

Source: https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2019061298301%20Barclays%20Capital%20Inc.%20%20CRD%2019714%20AWC%20gg%20%282022-1671668413165%29.pdf Good evening Superstonk, I hope everyone's week is off to an awesome start! I would like to share some more FINRA 'discipline' with

Inflation Alert! FOMC Forecasts Point to Hot Inflation Despite Promised Rate Hikes. PCI at 3.69%, PCE at 4.74/4.94%, & Core PCE at 4.31% Even with Sweetheart Numbers the Rest of the Year, the Fed's Going to Have to Sacrifice Employment for Price Stability

Good evening Superstonk, I hope everyone had a great day! Going into this week's PCI data, I wanted to share that it looks like the Fed's 2023 forecast for inflation rates is blown out of the water. Buckle up for more rate hikes! MonthCPI Percent Change

Inflation Alert! June 2023 Survey Reveals Surveyed Consumers Have: Falling Short-Term Inflation Expectations, Holding steady in the Mid-Term but Rising Long-Term, Rising Home Prices, and improving Consumer Financial Outlooks.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2023/20230710 Wut mean? The June 2023 Survey of Consumer Expectations shows some interesting trends about inflation and home prices. The survey shows that people expect inflation to decrease in the short term (one year ahead), stay the same in the medium term

FINRA 'Discipline' Alert! Citigroup Violates Rule 606, Over-reports Non-Directed Orders for Six Years (2012-2018), Fails to Maintain Supervisory System for Nine Years (2012-2021). Their Penalty? They received a censure and a $100,000 fine

Source: https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2019063024201%20Citigroup%20Global%20Markets%20Inc.%20CRD%207059%20AWC%20lp%20%282022-1671322798409%29.pdf Good morning Superstonk, I hope everyone had a GREAT weekend! I would like to share some more FINRA 'discipline' with y'all, this time

FINRA 'Discipline' Alert! Unraveling How Scotia Capital (USA) Over-reported Short Interest Positions by 130 Million Shares from July 2017 thru June 2019. Their Penalty? They received a censure and a $300,000 fine, without having to admit or deny findings

https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2019061945201%20Scotia%20Capital%20%28USA%29%20Inc.%20CRD%20No.%202739%20AWC%20gg%20%282022-1668212412998%29.pdf Good Sunday afternoon Superstonk, I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful weekend! I would like to share some more FINRA 'discipline' with y&

The Debt Time Bomb is Ticking: Rising Delinquencies, Soaring Bankruptcies, and the Looming Detonation of Student Loans

Source: https://abi.org/newsroom/press-releases/commercial-chapter-11-filings-increased-68-percent-in-the-first-half-of-2023 The 2,973 total commercial chapter 11 bankruptcies filed during the first six months of 2023 represented a 68 percent increase over the 1,766 filed during the same period in 2022, according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, the leading provider of