New York Securities Fraud Lawyers BlogIt was reported by Bloomberg News on Friday January 24, 2014 that there was a “massive selloff” in emerging markets that led to a decline of approximately 2% to the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500. It is during such fast and sudden selloffs that underlying problems in public investors’ brokerage accounts are typically […]
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A Raft of Risks: Assessing FINRA’s New Alert on Exchange Traded Notes
Headline news charting the dramatic peaks and valleys of select Credit Suisse and Barclays properties prompted the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA) to issue a July warning to investors detailing the potential risks inherent to exchange-traded notes (or ETNs). The investor alert, entitled “Exchange Traded Notes – Avoid Unpleasant Surprises“, details vital notices to […]
Is my account down because of the market, or is it something else?
In rough economic times such as these, many investors have seen their accounts suffer large losses. As New York securities lawyers, we’ve seen some investors’ accounts lose 25-50% over the course of a few months or years, while others have seen their accounts lose such large amounts seemingly overnight. A large drop in account value […]