Michael P. Regan, Columnist

Small Investors Show No Fear

Retail stock trading data show no retreat

May 29, 2014 at 9:45 PM UTC

Michael P. Regan is the global team leader for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg as well as a former senior markets editor and former Americas team leader for Bloomberg's Markets Live blog. He has covered Wall Street for Bloomberg News as a columnist and editor since 2007. He previously worked for the Associated Press.

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This article is part of the June 2, 2014 issue of businessweek.

If the stock market is rigged to fleece the little guy, someone forgot to warn the little guy. “Despite talk of flagging investor confidence,” Ana Avramovic of Credit Suisse wrote in a May 15 report, “data from retail brokers show that the retail crowd is more engaged than ever.”