Opinion: Intended to halt high-frequency swaps, a tax on financial transactions would discourage low-cost investing, writes Jon Hartley
Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in March that could be a big disruption to U.S. financial markets. The proposed 0.1% tax on all financial transactions—trades in stocks, bonds, derivatives—may sound small, but it could make markets less stable and hurt small investors.
The purpose of the tax is to eliminate high-frequency trading: automated trades based on algorithms that predict market movement and attempt to seize quick arbitrage opportunities. Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, alleges that...
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