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Opening Bell: 06.24.09
Dealbreaker —
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Now that we've identified The Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute it's up to one of you to create some sort of bus tour, which would probably be pretty popular. ("This is the cafeteria where Jobs's jello was prepared and up ahead we'll show you the room in which he got hooked up to a catheter. Not one of those used ones they're always advertising on CNBC but the Rolls Royce of catheters. This is Steve Jobs we're talking about, after all.")
NYSE Loses Trades Fastest in a Year and Nasdaq Isn't the Winner (Bloomberg)
"...a record low 30.2 ...
NYSE Loses Trades Fastest in a Year and Nasdaq Isnt the Winner
the alpha and omega —
Bloomberg writes:
NYSE Euronexts control of U.S. stock trading is slipping away.
Two-hundred seventeen years after the New York Stock Exchange was founded under a Wall Street buttonwood tree, its modern-day parent executed a record low 30.2 percent of Mays trades, data compiled by Bloomberg show. That's down 2.8 points from February for the worst three months since June 2008. The beneficiary wasnt Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., the Big Boards main rival for 38 years. It was Direct Edge Holdings LLC and Bats Exchange Inc., which ...
