A couple of articles of interest came out this afternoon about our objections to practices that Larry Leibowitz mentioned in a speech last week, which I posted earlier today. One article, from Bloomberg: “NYSE Asks SEC to Strike Down Nasdaq, Bats Plan to Hold Orders” Sorry, no link available. Excerpt: NYSE Euronext, the world’...

“[O]ur market structure has gone astray,” Larry Leibowitz last week told the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s annual market structure conference. “Over the past 15 years the order-handing rules, decimalization, Reg. NMS were all designed to increase transparency, level the playing field and encourage ...

Excerpt from an interview in the new BusinessWeek: MARIA BARTIROMO: The proposals coming out of the Obama Administration are the talk of the business world, particularly the tax on international profits. What are you hearing about this new proposal to tax profits differently? DUNCAN L. NIEDERAUER: I was in Texas and California in recent weeks and ...

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Thanks to the recession, many consumers are choosing not to buy new appliances to replace broken ones, calling the repairman instead. ...

With airplane trips, car rentals and hotel rooms selling sluggishly, travel vendors are bundling them into low-priced package deals. ...

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1 EUR buys 1.3856 US dollar (USD) - The reference exchange rates are published both by electronic market information providers and on the ECB’s website shortly after the concertation procedure has been completed. Reference rates are published according to the same calendar as the TARGET system. ...

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