Why Jane Street Lost $15 Billion in July

Jane Street posted roughly $15 billion of losses in July, its first monthly loss in about a decade, due to its investment in Situational Awareness and wrong-way bets in Asian equity markets. Katherine Doherty reports on "Bloomberg Open I…

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