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Harris: Computers rule finance markets

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The real threat to the world's financial system is fear and the people who trade in it according to a new book.

Author of The Fear Index Robert Harris and former derivatives trader and author Mike O'Hara discuss whether the financial crisis has slipped out of human control because of computer based trading.


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