Sell Side Analysts Score a Big Fat F on Knight Capital

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Vikas Shukla
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We all know what went wrong with Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE:KCG) last week. The big bug on the new trading platform inadvertently purchased stocks of many American corporations without any human input, resulting in the loss of $440 million within 45 minutes.  The firm had to arrange emergency funding to keep its doors open; otherwise Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE:KCG) would have gone bankrupt. The market maker’s stock prices plunged over 75 percent within a day! The irony is that almost all the sell side analysts had strong buy, buy and hold ratings for the Knight Capital stock. No, I am not saying that the…

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Vikas Shukla is a technology reporter. He has a strong interest in gadgets, gizmos, and science. He writes regularly on these topics.