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What today's data means for yields and the USD.

NFP rise lacks participation, yields & USD back on the floor - CI UK Market Analysis The rally in bond yields and the US dollar proved as short-lived as the rapidity in which traders realized the decline in the employment participation from

How Can Yahoo Be Worth Less Than Zero? A thing that pays you positive hundreds of millions of dollars a year shouldn't be worth negative billions of dollars.

Guess what...Greece is back!

Greek Bond Sale Said to Top $4 Billion in Market Return Greece is ending a four-year exile from international markets with a bond sale of 3 billion euros ($4.2 billion), more than the government estimated, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Big data: are we making a big mistake? - FT.com Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of

***NASDAQ SELLOFF***

U.S. Stock Futures Rise as Jobs Report Shows Hiring Gains U.S. stock futures advanced, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index poised to rise to an all-time high, after a government report showed employers boosted hiring last month.

Today's maker mover

Payrolls in U.S. Rose 192,000 in March, Unemployment at 6.7% Employers in the U.S. boosted payrolls and the unemployment rate held at 6.7 percent even as more Americans entered the labor force, showing steady progress that will prompt Federal Reserve policy makers to continue reducing stimulus while keeping interest rates low.

The must-read book that is rocking Wall Street.

Michael Lewis: Nobody Understands the Stock Market: Video “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” Author Michael Lewis discusses his book, trading and the stock market on Bloomberg Television's “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg)

End of the equity rally?

S&P 500 will peak around 1,900 to 1,950 then drop 30%: Saxo Bank strategist The S&P 500 has not had a proper correction since the start of quantitative easing, but that day is coming. Watch for a 30% drop by the end of this year, says a Saxo Bank strategist.

Very interesting interview about HFT and how the stock market is rigged.

High-frequency trading hurts regular customers, Michael Lewis tells ’60 Minutes’ The U.S. stock market is rigged to hurt the average investor and benefit high frequency traders, stock exchanges and large Wall Street banks, according to the author of the new book “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.”This computer-based high-speed trading is considered sophisticated and uses complex...

Behind the massive trade that took down the market Stocks suffered a tough turnaround on Wednesday, and many on the Street are blaming one massive options trade.

Candy Crush crushes at IPO.

'Candy Crush' IPO flops, worst trading debut this year SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - King Digital saw its stock drop 15.6% to close at $19, the worst trading debut so far this year, according data from Renaissance Capital. The maker of the popular "Candy Crush Saga' videogame priced its much anticipated public offering at $22.50, in the middle of its ex...

Interesting take on recent EM turmoil.

Liquidity = volatility in EM - Authers' Note - Markets & Investing Video - FT.com ETFs make it easy to invest in emerging markets, and they are increasingly the most popular vehicle for doing so. However, John Authers analyses whether liquidity may come at the cost of poorer investment performance, and whether it stokes volatility.