Dark Pool Disfavor Above 50% in Poll Amid High-Frequency Fallout

Dark pools and high-frequency traders, two elements of the electronic U.S. stock market whose rise has been decried in books and Congress, are finding little support among financial professionals.

At least half the respondents in the Bloomberg Global Poll professed a negative view of the anonymous equity markets and proprietary firms that buy and sell stocks in millionths of a second. The findings come four months after “Flash Boys” author Michael Lewis said markets are rigged and four weeks after the New York attorney general accused a dark pool owned by Barclays Plc of lying to customers.