US Justice Department probes high-speed trading (via AFP)

The US Justice Department has launched a probe of high-speed trading to see whether it involves illegal insider trading, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday. “In the financial sector, concerns have been raised recently about a practice called ‘…

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