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Stock Market Automation: Exchanges Have Increased Systems' Capacities Since the 1987 Market Crash

IMTEC-91-37 Published: May 10, 1991. Publicly Released: May 10, 1991.
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GAO assessed the improvements made to stock markets' automated systems to facilitate order routing and trade execution on days with volatile trading and large trading volumes.

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