Saturday, August 4, 2012

11 Charts That Show How Knight Capital's Business Has Just Been Destroyed (KCG)

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Knight Capital's market-making desk has suffered a significant blow following the company's disclosure that it would lose $440 million and was facing liquidity concerns.

Business Insider analyzed Knight's share of trading as reported through Bloomberg over the past week.

What we found: Knight's share of executed trades has plummeted across the board.

The firm, which often ranks as one of the top brokerages executing — neck and neck with UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Citadelranks as the 15th largest market maker through early-afternoon trade.

In the subsequent charts, we show Knight's trading share of several key stocks and ETFs.

Market share of trading in Apple has fallen to 1.44%



Market share of trading in SPY (the S&P 500 ETF) has fallen to 4.82%



Market share of trading in Google has fallen to 0.08%



See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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