The Group of 20 (G20) brought together leaders the key advanced and emerging market countries to manage 2007–08 financial economic crises, reform international architecture, devise a new global consensus, ensure recovery, promote strong, sustainable, balanced growth. Established as an anti-crisis mechanism designated by its members premier forum for cooperation, G20 transformed into governance ...

Using the intraday data on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), we address the issue of the informativeness of the limit order book in the periodic call market. We find that the pre-call information variables, i.e., the market order and the radius of the limit order book, have significant impacts on the trade variables, i.e., the trading volume, the post-call bid-ask spread, and the trader surplus...

The transposons Tn5, Tn7, Tn9, and Tn10 or their derivatives have been examined for transposition in the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans G20. Tn7 inserted with a frequency of 10(-4) to 10(-3) into a unique attachment site that shows strong homology with those sites identified in other gram-negative bacteria. Inactivation of the tnsD gene in Tn7, encoding the function dire...

In this manuscript, empirical research on performance of various types of financial experts is reviewed. Financial experts are used as the umbrella term for financial analysts, stockbrokers, money managers, investors, and day-traders etc. The goal of the review is to find out about the abilities of financial experts to produce accurate forecasts, to issue profitable stock recommendations, as we...