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streetwiseprofessor.com - 2 hours ago
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Last week I wrote about one justification for
exchange trading and clearing mandates--the market power argument. This
week I'll examine another argument, and render a similarly skeptical verdict. In a chapter of Restoring Financial Stability, Viral ...
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Nirvana is Just a Band
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marginalrevolution.com - 3 hours ago
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In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin
Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours
hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross ...
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Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges.
deepmarket.com - 4 hours ago
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Boost Financial ResultsGain Better QualityCut Process DefectsCombining Lean
and Six Sigma serves to improve processes, eliminate defects,
reduce cycle times and accelerate processes. To achieve a competitive position in today's turbulent economy, companies in all walks of life are pursuing a ...
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Taking Lean Six Sigma Beyond Manufacturing: The Journey ...
deepmarket.com - 4 hours ago
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Stocks in the Twitter stream:2009-11-20 23:20:52.0 - RT
@alleyinsider Verizon Droid Price Drops To $120 $VZ by
@alaskamiller http://bit.ly/5JIzD1 http://bit.ly/6gTGna2009-11-20 23:18:29.0 - RT @alleyinsider Verizon Droid Price Drops To $120 $VZ by @alaskamiller http://bit.ly/5JIzD12009-11-20 ...
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Recent Stock Market Chatter on Twitter – 2009-11-20 ...
deepmarket.com - 5 hours ago
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Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:Small Cap
Bear 3X (TZA) over the next 5 trading days.
Look at the seasonal patterns for Small Cap Bear 3X in context.UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets (EEV) over the next 5 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for UltraShort MSCI Emerging ...
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Negative Seasonal Pattern Stocks on Friday the 20th of ...
cbsnews.com - 6 hours ago
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3 Arrested after Students Barricade Themselves in Campus
Building to Protest 32% Fee Increase for UC Students
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Berkeley Students Protest Student Fee Hike
mcall.com - 6 hours ago
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In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin
Anderson , 17, has toiled for more than 200
hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross ...
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Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown -
securitiesdocket.com - 7 hours ago
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Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s
Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”):
A rip-off far worse than Madoff’s (Lawrence W. Schonbrun, LA Daily News) LA Daily News | November 20, 2009 What would you think of a legal system in which someone burglarizes ...
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Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week ...
deepmarket.com - 7 hours ago
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deepmarket.com —
The magazine is a place for active traders
to find consistently useful and cutting-edge articles on markets,
trading strategies and technical methods, as well as economic and regulatory issues. The focus on global and national news, commentary and methodologies in both equities and derivatives ...
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SFO – Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine
cbsnews.com - 7 hours ago
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Driver Dead after Vehicle Overturned; "Hannah Montana" Star
Not on Board at Time of Accident
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Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Crash Kills 1
philstockworld.com - 7 hours ago
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Today’s tickers: WFC, IYT, RYL, YHOO, XLE, MU,
ADCT, KBH, DELL, NE & GPS WFC - Wells
Fargo & Co. – Shares of the financial holding company surrendered 1.5% today to stand at $27.88. One investor initiated a sold straddle on WFC in the April 2010 contract. The trader sold ...
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Investor Plants WFC Short Straddle - Set to Bloom in ...
chartswingtrader.com - 7 hours ago
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The stock market did nothing today - it
was quite a boring options expiration. Since it's Friday,
I don't have much to say but I will look over things more this week and see what may be happening. I still don't have a good feel overall for many of the reasons I have explained this... ...
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Consumer Warning - Don't Buy From This Website
247wallst.com - 7 hours ago
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We have seen some unusual options trading today.
As you would expect, some is around today’s 4:00
PM close with today being options expiration date. But some bets are way out into 2011 and we have some around merger rumors. All have links ...
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Unusual Friday Options Activity (AAPL, GOOG, BAC, LEAP, ...
247wallst.com - 7 hours ago
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These are this morning’s top day trader alerts
and active trader alerts early this Friday morning. We
have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis on each: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX) down ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BCRX, DELL, DRYS, NVAX, WCRX)
247wallst.com - 7 hours ago
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)
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These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades,
downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning
in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) Started as ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, ...
blog.ockhamresearch.com - 8 hours ago
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Barnes & Noble ( BKS ) reported today
that their new eReader product has sold out of
the entire supply for delivery before the holidays. This may be a positive sign for Barnes & Noble in the long run as demand appears to be quite strong, but it is clear that production limitations ...
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A Kindle Under Every Tree?
vsinvestor.com - 8 hours ago
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DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is seeing some options
activity that stands out today, although it is a
bit muted by our count considering that the $300 million convertible note offering was juiced up to $400 million and considering the share lending ...
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DryShips Options Pull on Offering (DRYS)
vsinvestor.com - 8 hours ago
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With the merger ‘rumors’ out there calling for
another potential merger between Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:
LEAP) with a $1.1 billion market cap and with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) and a $2.3 billion market cap, it ...
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Leap & Metro PCS Elevated Options & Stocks ...
vsinvestor.com - 8 hours ago
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It is always said that options around the
options expiration dates tend to act as a magnet
to the closest strike price. That appears to be the case today in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). While it is easy to refute the ...
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Google & Apple Options Pulling Share Prices (GOOG, AAPL)
vsinvestor.com - 8 hours ago
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Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has seen a massive
trade for January 2011 as 20,000 January $12.50 puts
are sold for $1.10, and 20,000 January $17.50 and $30 calls are also sold for a total of $1.75, while 40,000 of the $20 calls are bought for $0.96, a ...
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The Big 2011 Yahoo! Options Bet (YHOO)
vsinvestor.com - 8 hours ago
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Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has seen
an absolute massive butterfly call spread for January 2011
as 50,000 January $20 and $40 calls are bought for $1.94, and 100,000 $30 calls are sold at $0.37, so a $1.20 debit, expecting shares to nearly ...
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Big Bullish Options Bet in B of A (BAC)
onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 8 hours ago
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Progressives and ardent supporters of a healthcare public
option are cheering the Senate version of health reform
legislation to emerge Thursday. Social conservatives, meanwhile, are attacking the bill for lack of an anti-abortion amendment that had been included in the House version.
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Progressives Cheer Senate Health Bill As Right Attacks ...
businessinsider.com - 8 hours ago
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You've probably heard of the controversial investment schemes
buy people's life insurance policies, pay them an annual
amount, and then collect money when each people die. If the people die early, and you only end up subsidizing them for a few years, ...
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How Deutsche Bank Bet On Americans Dying Early And Lost
hf-implode.com - 9 hours ago
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"CFFR vice president Jack Dean conducted a phone
interview Monday with Jim Scott, news anchor at KGET-TV
17 in Bakersfield. The report covers the issue well. City councilmember Zack Scrivner, who is interviewed on camera, makes an excellent case for our pension initiative:"
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Impending Pension Battle
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 9 hours ago
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Citigroup is whining that new regulations eliminate pricing
for risk. So what does it do? Jack up
rates is the answer. To lower interest rates, Citi customers must spend more . Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for ...
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Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Risk Policis At ...
hf-implode.com - 9 hours ago
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" Citigroup is whining that new regulations eliminate
pricing for risk. So what does it do? Jack
up rates is the answer."
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Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Questionable Risk ...
cafehayek.com - 9 hours ago
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There are advantage to universal standards. The most
important is economies of scale–once you learn the standard,
it applies everywhere. But the disadvantages are subtle and usually much greater than the advantages. I don’t want ...
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Universal standards
richard-wilson.blogspot.com - 9 hours ago
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Future of Offshore Hedge Funds Future of Offshore
Hedge Funds After the Financial Crisis With a wave
of new regulations aimed at the hedge fund industry, it's hard to predict what the state of the industry will be in a couple years. I found an interesting article discussing ...
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Future of Offshore Hedge Funds
elpcapital.com - 9 hours ago
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Explains the differences among three common IRAs, including
tax regulations.
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The Main Event: Traditional IRA v. the Roth IRA v. the ...
wattsupwiththat.com - 10 hours ago
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UPDATE: Response from CRU in interview with another
website, see end of this post. The details on
this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked ...
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Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – ...
blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 10 hours ago
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If you own any shares in alternative energy
companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy
behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke ...
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Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ...
youtube.com - 10 hours ago
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youtube.com —
with unemployment approaching 20% (broader index), foreclosure rate
still increasing, and credit markets still frozen, how long
can we afford to stand behind...
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Chris Dodd on Giethner, Bernanke and Summers (video)
baselinescenario.com - 10 hours ago
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I don’t spend a lot of time trying
to police the economic news media — Dean Baker
and Brad DeLong are much better on that — but I found myself reading a two-week-old Newsweek column by Robert Samuelson that enraged me enough to type this out. (I read it on old-fashioned ...
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Government Debt Hysteria
fk.cm - 10 hours ago
hf-implode.com - 11 hours ago
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Costanera Center sits half-finished at the heart of
Santiago’s financial district, its exposed concrete and reinforcement bars
contrasting with the glass-faced skyscrapers surrounding it. A banner at the silent, empty building site says “Icon of Latin American development.” Once a symbol of ...
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Santiago Skyscraper Provides Clue to Chile’s Economy
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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Chalk up a rare victory for the little
guy (and the nation itself). The Bill To Audit
Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by ...
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Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In ...
hf-implode.com - 11 hours ago
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" Baytree — formed nearly a decade ago
by the late Howard Adams, a co-founder of Lake
Forest-based Wintrust Financial Corp. — ran into serious trouble this year and is operating under a regulatory order requiring it to raise capital. Through the first nine months of the year, Baytree recorded a ...
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Banking veteran leading buyers toward Baytree
online.wsj.com - 11 hours ago
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Getty Images Treasury chief Geithner faced a House
Republican who told him, 'The public has lost all
confidence in your ability to do the job.' He shot back: 'What I can't take responsibility is for the legacy of crises you've bequeathed this country.'
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House Attacks Fed, Treasury
econompicdata.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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Barclays Aggregate is Yielding Just 3.35% Last month
I detailed that the yield to worst of the
Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index (i.e. the most popular US dollar fixed income benchmark) was minuscule at just around 3.5%. Well it is now ...
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Selecting a Domestic Fixed Income Benchmark
mjperry.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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SAN PEDRO, CA (Nov. 13, 2009) — Containers
shipped through the Port of Los Angeles last month
increased 10.9% compared to September, making October the strongest month yet for the Port this calendar year (see top chart above). Both ...
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LA Shipping Reaches Highest Level Since Nov. 2008
bespokeinvest.typepad.com - 11 hours ago
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It used to be that if you asked
someone how the market was doing, their answer would
depend on how it had acted over the last few weeks or months. Nowadays, though, your answer will more likely be a reflection of the last day or even hours. Over the ...
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It Was The Best of Markets, It Was The Worst of Markets
hf-implode.com - 11 hours ago
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"The true gold bugs of yesteryear are no
longer in charge. Though they're probably not complaining given
that retail demand is making them rich. Just realize that retail demand can be a fickle friend."
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How The Old Gold Bugs Lost Control Of Gold (GLD)
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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marketnewslive.blogspot.com —
Nokia (NOK) said today it is cutting 330
jobs in its research and development operations. The cuts
will affect 230 employees at its Oulu site in Finland, and 100 employees in Copenhagen.
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Video: Nokia to Cut 330 R&D Jobs
hf-implode.com - 11 hours ago
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hf-implode.com —
"Fitch also indicated in the ABCP market commentary
a positive outlook on global recovery despite recent projections
by French investment bank Société Générale that 2010 might end in “global economic collapse” under a worst-case bearish economic scenario. Signs of green shoots in financial ...
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ABCP Outstandings Slip 35% in 2009
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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Sears posts the best earnings report since the
merger of Sears and Kmart while other retailers warn
of cautious forecasts
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Video: Layaways help Sears and Kmart
blogs.reuters.com - 11 hours ago
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Dear Henry , I'm not annoyed by you!
How could I be, when you call me the
"king of financial bloggers" no fewer than four times in one piece? I think you've created a powerful, innovative , and disruptive franchise in The Business Insider, which ...
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Disclosing journalists’ pasts
fk.cm - 11 hours ago
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 11 hours ago
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Google's Chrome operating system took a big step
on Thursday with its release to the open source
community. The OS is targeted at netbooks and will be faster, simpler and more secure than existing operating systems, according to Google.
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Video: Google opens its Chrome OS to developers
blog.ockhamresearch.com - 11 hours ago
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On Wednesday we wrote a piece talking about
the strange upgrade of Pulte Homes ( PHM )
by an analyst at Citigroup ( C ). At that time ( Upgrade Trumps Macro-Economics for Homebuilders ), we reiterated our Overvalued stance on Pulte, the largest in the group thanks to its acquisition of ...
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Pulte Homes Moves to the Sell-Block
securitiesdocket.com - 11 hours ago
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The credit rating agencies have been bulletproof from
litigation for years, but new attacks keep coming. Today,
Reuters reports, Ohio’s AG sued Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, claiming that they provided misleading credit ratings that led to hundreds of millions of losses ...
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Ohio Pension Funds Sue Credit Rating Agencies
