Are Dark Pools Sinister or Vital?

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Dark pools of liquidity allow investors to execute trades anonymously. "Institutions need anonymity when they trade to protect the prices that they buy and sell securities at," Seth Merrin, founder & CEO of Liquidnet, a platform for such trades, said.

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