A familiar element to any initial stock offering is the excruciatingly long list of â??risk factorsâ? a company lists in its filing. Itâ??s a legal exercise in backside coverage that combines the blindingly obvious with the borderline disingenuous. So itâ??s not surprising that Bats Global Markets listed a full 19 pages of risk factors for its Friday IPO, covering everything from â??intense competitionâ? in the companyâ??s business of high-frequency asset trading to the possibility of regulatory changes. What you wonâ??t find in that long list, however, is the following:
â??Our trading platform may blow up and cause a mini â??flash crashâ?? in the worldâ??s hottest stock, Apple, pushing the price down 9 percent and forcing a temporary halt in trading.â?
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