Matt Levine, Columnist

High-Speed Trading and Return Chasing

Also SunEdison, Morgan Stanley, corporate speech and so much bond market liquidity.

April 18, 2016 at 12:59 PM UTC

Corrected

April 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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