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		<title>Markets Edge Higher as Friday’s Rout Recovery Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OBSERVATIONS WTI Crude Oil Weekly options are proving to be the right product at exactly the right time for managing short-term risk. May average daily volume (ADV) reached over 33K contracts, a top-five all-time volume record for the product, with diversified volume growth across Monday through Friday expiries. Find out more. LEAD Markets Edge Higher [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Rudolph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applied for a pardon from President Trump after serving nearly three years of his 25-year sentence for misappropriating billions in customer funds while managing his now collapsed cryptocurrency empire.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First Read Hits &#038; Takes John Lothian &#038; JLN Staff The CFTC is offering buyouts and early resignation packages to roughly 50 long-time employees (47 from a source of mine) even as it scraps plans for a new, smaller headquarters and instead extends its current lease for five years to accommodate as many as 100 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Basement Startup to Market Titan: Chris Isaacson on Building Bats and Rewiring Cboe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lothian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In part two of this Zoom reflection after his retirement, the former Cboe COO recalls betting the firm on cheap pricing, fast code, and a rookie COO’s nerve—then learning more from a failed IPO than from all of Bats’s early wins.

ELMHURST, IL (JLN) - June 8, 2026: Chris Isaacson still talks about Bats the way a builder talks about a first house. The rooms were small, the tools were basic, and nobody expected it to turn into a global estate. “We were just trying to be a serious competitor in the US equities market,” he said in a recent Zoom interview for the John Lothian Profiles series, speaking from the calm of retirement after stepping down as chief operating officer of Cboe Global Markets. Two decades ago, he and a dozen colleagues set out to restore something that had gone missing in U.S. equities: real competition. NYSE and Nasdaq had swallowed the rivals. Tradebot Systems, where Bats was born, did not like its choices. So the thesis was blunt. “To bring back competition in the US equities market in the exchange space where all of it…had been gobbled up,” he said. They would do it with “aggressive pricing and great technology.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OBSERVATIONS From Nebraska Farm to Cboe’s Top Ranks JohnLothianNews.com ELMHURST, IL (JLN) – June 8, 2026: Chris Isaacson’s route to the executive suite of one of the world’s largest exchange operators began far from trading floors or data centers. It started on a Nebraska farm, where long days of irrigating crops and tending livestock shaped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kristalina Georgieva </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Rudolph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that after the spate of major crises in recent years, the world needs to build foundations that can withstand the global financial shocks that have become more frequent.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Bergstrom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First Read Hits &#038; Takes John Lothian &#038; JLN Staff When PR maven Drew Mauck wrote &#8220;For Whom The Bell Tolls&#8221; for Other Voices in John Lothian News, I noted that I had initially recommended that he publish his commentary on LinkedIn instead of JLN. He cited the connection between LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lothian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tastylive strategist says education, liquidity focus and options know‑how are powering a more confident retail wave

PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL (JLN) - June 8, 2026: Retail options traders are stepping into what Jermal Chandler calls a new era of “trader independence,” as the industry dismantles the old pattern day trader regime and leans harder on education rather than guardrails. “We’re billing it as trader independence day,” said Chandler, the head of options strategy at tastylive, referring to the June 4 overhaul that effectively removes the PDT designation and its $25,000 equity threshold for active day traders.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Nebraska Farm to Cboe’s Top Ranks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Lothian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chris Isaacson traces a path from agriculture to algorithmic markets and exchange leadership

ELMHURST, IL (JLN) - June 8, 2026: Chris Isaacson’s route to the executive suite of one of the world’s largest exchange operators began far from trading floors or data centers. It started on a Nebraska farm, where long days of irrigating crops and tending livestock shaped his view of leadership long before he wrote a line of code.

“Growing up on a Nebraska farm … my dad empowered us to take on a lot of responsibility as young men,” Isaacson said in an interview with John Lothian News for the John Lothian Profiles series. “I made a lot of mistakes, but it gave me a lot of confidence.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>John Lothian: Week in Review (June 1st-5th, 2026)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lothian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK

Derivatives Veteran Sees Market Manipulation in Perpetual Futures
James Davies says crypto “perps” repeat flaws from 2013 product—and extract billions from retail traders]]></description>
		
		
		
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