In this segment of The Motley Fool's financials-focused show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss the day's headlines. Among the newsmakers they discuss are the overblown decline in new home sales and the latest efforts to crack down on high-frequency trading.

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