2013-12-01bloomberg.com

``In Hunsader's view, the computerized firms that benefit from the fragmentation by profiting off fleeting price discrepancies between markets are not being policed enough. The results, according to Hunsader, included higher data-processing fees and unexplained lurches in the prices of individual stocks that cause investors anxiety. There is also the potential for more outright disasters, he said, like the May 2010 "flash crash" when the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended a drop to almost 1,000 points within minutes.''



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