Weekly Highlights

• To kick off 2023, we are going to take one last look back at 2022 and see how trading changed over the course of the year.

• Overall, post-trade quote instability and markouts ended the year lower than where they began last January. However, the energy sector bucked this trend and got more challenging: Across the large and smid-cap universes, including ADRs, energy names made up a substantial portion of top symbols where instability and markouts increased.

• For names where instability and markouts improved, there were no sector concentrations. But interestingly, big stock-split names–including AMZN, GOOG, TSLA, SHOP, and PANW– became more stable in post-trade performance despite being down for the year.

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