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Letter: These financial trades are bad enough already

Published 11 September 2024

From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK

High-frequency trading already demonstrates that the financial markets are nothing but a shell game profiting only the already ultra-rich and causing misery for the rest when they go off the rails. Making such trading even more volatile with quantum technology will only cause harm (17 August, p 14).

Issue no. 3508 published 14 September 2024

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