Week of June 24 2016 Weekly Recap & The Week Ahead

“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.” — Rudyard Kipling

1. IEX Wins Approval to Launch Stock Exchange — the SEC has finally given approval to IEX Group to challenge the NYSE (NYSE:ICE), Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ), and Bats Global (BATS:BATS) as the nation’s 13th national stock exchange. IEX’s “speed bump” delays orders by 350 millionths-of-a-second, but it’s enough to protect investors from high-frequency trading which can front-run slower orders on other exchanges.
2. Facebook (FB) Shareholders OK Stock Shift That Keeps Zuckerberg In Charge — Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) shareholders approved a proposal to create a new class of non-voting shares, a move aimed at allowing CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give away his wealth without relinquishing control of the company he founded. FB will now move ahead with its plan to issue two Class C shares for each Class A and Class B share held by shareholders, in what effectively is a 3-for-1 stock split; Creation of the Class C shares will allow Zuckerberg to sell the non-voting stock, but keep the voting Class A and Class B shares that would let him retain control of the company.
3. ECB Restores Greece’s Access to Cheap Funding — the ECB will start accepting junk-rated Greek government debt as collateral for its regular bank lending operations. According to economists, the decision to open a funding facility that had been shut for 16 months could lead to the partial lifting of capital controls in the coming days.
4. Britain Voted To Leave The EU — With all 382 U.K. areas reporting, the ‘Leave’ camp won 51.9% of vote vs. ‘Remain’s 48.1%. Voter turnout was 72.2%. David Cameron has resigned as U.K. Prime Minister in an emotional speech outside 10 Downing Street stating “I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,”. As a next step, Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be invoked to begin the formal process for leaving the EU. That would start a series of negotiations for how to disentangle the U.K. from its many union structures, and could take up to 2 years (or more if both Britain and the European Council agree to extend the discussion period).

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