What exactly is BATS Chi-X Europe?
I work at BATS Chi-X Europe and wanted to provide some clarity/answers to these questions. BATS Chi-X Europe is a Recognised Investment Exchange, so it is indeed a stock exchange.  Sometimes the term “equity market” could be used when explaining our business, but essentially we are a stock exchange.  As some background, BATS Chi-X Europe was formed by the acquisition of Chi-X Europe by BATS Trading in November 2011. At the time of the acquisition, each company operated as a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for the trading of pan-European equities via a single trading platform. The category of MTF was introduced by MIFID (markets in Financial Instrument Directive) in 2007, which introduced competition in equities trading and allowed European stocks, to be traded on any European platform. Until 2007, many European stocks had to be traded only their local exchanges due to so-called “Concentration Rules”. Following the acquisition, BATS Chi-X Europe became the largest MTF in Europe, offering trading in more than 2,000 securities (2,700 securities by September 2013) across 15 major European markets, on a single trading platform.  In May 2013, BATS Chi-X Europe received Recognised Investment Exchange status from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, meaning that BATS Chi-X Europe has changed from an MTF status to full exchange status. In response to question 1: The equities traded on BATS Chi-X Europe are listed on stock exchanges such as the LSE but also listed on the other European Exchanges. The term “third party” equities is not particularly useful as all stock trading in Europe is generally a “second hand”  business referred to as “secondary market” trading. At the time of listing a firm issues shares; trading in these shares after the listing exercise is generally what happens in equity markets and these shares can be bought and sold on stock exchanges across Europe. Secondary market trading describes all trading on all exchanges or MTFs that takes place after the listing. In response to question 2: BATS Chi-X Europe trades over 2,700 stocks on its own trading platform. When trading on BATS Chi-X Europe, orders are executed on their own platform and will not end up of the LSE order books or platform. The fact that a stock was first listed on the LSE, does not mean that all trading in this stock happens via the LSE. However settlement process ensures that stocks end up being logged in a single depository. This means that a stock bought on BATS Chi-X Europe can be offset against the same stock sold on the LSE.  In response to question 3: As noted above, BATS Chi-X Europe received Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE) status from the UK Financial Conduct Authority in May 2013, meaning that BATS Chi-X Europe has changed from an MTF status to full stock exchange status. As an exchange / RIE, BATS Chi-X Europe is authorised to offer primary and secondary listings alongside its existing business.  According to the Federations of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), BATS Chi-X Europe has been the largest equity exchange in Europe by value traded in every month so far in 2013. In August, 24.1% of European equities trading in the 15 markets covered were traded on BATS Chi-X Europe. In July and August, the average notional value traded on BATS Chi-X Europe was around €7.2 billion per day. Hope this information is helpful. Yes, it would be incorrect to refer to BATS Chi-X Europe as a market maker. Market makers make markets on BATS Chi-X Europe, which is a stock exchange. BATS CHi-X Europe is a market maker. They provide liquidity to the order books of different kinds of equities on certain exchanges. So the London Stock Exchange lists equities and the order books show the orders of different market participants. Most of those market participants are market makers. They allow others to complete a trade of an equity closer to the price that persons wants, in a faster time period and in larger amounts, than if there were no market makers providing liquidity.
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Now, if they called the iPhone 8 the iPhone 7s, I think there wouldn't be such a negative image about it in terms of it being a rather small upgrade, because the ""s"" iteration usually is just a spec bump and no one would bat an eye at that, but since it got the title of being the 8th iPhone, people expect more from it." "&gt;What's the point of commenting on a down voted thread anyway? There is no agreed upon cut-off for Gen X. You could make an argument that anyone over 40 and under 60 is Gen X.   You are really and truly ENTIRELY clueless and confused.  Let me say it again: **Boomers -- born 1946~1964** (and that is pretty definitive, especially the ""kickoff"" date of 1946; the ending date is a bit more subjective, but in invariably centered around 1963-64).    Ergo at present **Boomers are individuals (presently) aged 66 down to ~48 (give or take a year or two).**   **By contrast, Gen X is unarguably and definitively mid-1960's through early 1980's.**  Ergo Gen X is currently aged around ~30 to ~48 years old.  ---  &gt;You could make an argument that anyone over 40 and under 60 is Gen X.   No one. And I mean NO ONE who has a single clue would EVER consider anyone over age 50 at present to be ""Gen X"".  No one.  *The only ones who would make such a statement would be someone who (idiotically) had entirely CONFUSED GenX with the Boomers.*  Go get a clue already." This sounds more like a behavioral than a debit card issue to me TBH. Did you put the money you're putting away into a separate savings account that you (mentally) labelled 'for investment'? That's pretty much what I do (and I have a couple of savings accounts for exactly that reason) and even though I know I've got $x in the savings accounts, the debit card I carry only lets me spend money from my main bank account. By the time I've transferred the money, the urge to spend has usually gone away, even though it often only takes seconds to make the transfer. Rising rates is going to counteract the asset bubble and Draghi &amp; the rest of the ECB are well aware of this. Now that Spain &amp; Italy got their shit together they're going to go full steam ahead.   Also Germany specifically is in trouble given its large companies such as BASF and others are threatened as companies on countries globally are consolidating and a focus by domestic experts on the trade deficit the U.S. holds with Germany.   The European economy will be fine. Certain European assets too, but do not be too sure on the DAX. I don't know why Boeing tried this for the 787. The whole Airbus A3XX was a similar fiasco, and its part production was only spread around europe! Why boeing thought they could pull off development of a large plane while spreading it around the globe, I just don't get it. You can check whether the company whose stock you want to buy is present on an european market. For instance this is the case for Apple at Frankfurt. "This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-usa-trade-idUSKBN1AB0WQ) reduced by 70%. 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