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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by TomMarius on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:44AM (#21324965)
Why would you do that?
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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by Tuna-Fish on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:49AM (#21325059)
Because there are billions of dollars/year of money in it.

Things that happen outside New York have an impact on stock prices in New York. Much of HFT is essentially companies racing each other to be the very first to act on external news/stock movements.

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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by sudhirj on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:50AM (#21325081)
Because when something happens in China companies in the UK and the US that have supply chains there (almost everybody) will be affected.
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Re:Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet by karanbhangui on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:50AM (#21325072)
arbitrage
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