What a Week: How Washington Responded to America’s Financial Crisis

Outside the big declines in Google and Microsoft, Friday marked a relatively quiet end to an incredibly dramatic week.With so much having happening from Wall Street to Washington and back, it’s important to step back and reflect on what’s transpired. …

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Can’t we all just get along?

The fight for bragging rights between the United States’ two main stock exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, assumed an even sharper edge in the past week.
After Nasdaq OMX issued a press release claiming the most new listings of any U.S. exchange, NYSE Euronext, the Big Board’s parent, took the unusual step of sending out a note to […]

A sprinkle of sugar for Nymex seatholders

    A little goodwill goes a long way. Toss in $112 million, and it could even seal a multi-billion-dollar deal that was looking about as sure as a five-day weather forecast.
    CME Group, the world’s top derivatives exchange, and NYMEX Holdings, the energy and metals market it wants to buy, responded to the complaints of […]