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Blog: Ugg New Styles in This Season’s

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Blog：New Entrants

ut just as the original ECNs cannibalised Nasdaq, online brokers are also looking to get in on the act.
Even the traditional exchanges are acting as unlikely bed fellows.
For example, the German online broker, Consors, plans to participate in the Berlin Stock Exchange’s project to launch a retail ECN.
A Consors spokeswoman said the project would lower the commission charged on trades for retail investors.
The Berlin Stock Exchange hopes to launch the ECN this year.
Existing ECNs in Europe include Instinet, Tradepoint and Bloomberg’s Tradebook.

blo:Investor woes threaten electronic markets

A little less than a year ago, the New York offices of news agency Reuters were all astir over the forthcoming float of shares in the firm’s electronic trading network, Instinet.
Some employees took advantage of a scheme set up by the London-based firm that allowed them to purchase shares at the initial-offering price of $14.50 (?0).
In the days and weeks that followed, Reuters workers cheered as the stock rose to near $22 a share.
By mid-summer, however, Instinet shares had begun a swift decline, falling below their $14.50 offering price after just 10 weeks of trading.

Blog：Economic turmoil

Much of the void has been filled with businesses that opted to relocate from other Trizec properties to the space once occupied by Enron, resulting in a mere reshuffling of existing tenants.
Local officials are keenly aware of the impact of the fallout from the collapse of Enron.
If the overall US economy is any indication of Houston’s economic future, it might find itself turning the corner sooner than thought possible.
Trizec officials remain confident that they will lease the remainder of space formerly occupied by Enron by the end of the year.

Blog：Spotlight swings back

The milestone in the Andersen case will, however, allow attention to swing back towards Enron, whose own case has fallen off the front pages in recent months.
The question now is what form the legal assault against the firm will take.
So far, Andersen is the only party in the case to have been hit with criminal charges: Enron and its former officials face a range of investigations and civil lawsuits, but the authorities have yet to decide how criminal law can be brought to bear.
According to speculation, former officials of the firm could be charged with fraud-related offences, or the less severe infringements of insider trading or obstruction of justice.

Blog：Congress pushes accounting reform

US legislators’ willingness to crack down on accounting scandals faced a major test on Monday as senators debated a bill to crack down on the accountancy business.
The bill, proposed by Senate Finance Committee chairman Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, aims to create an independent board to oversee the profession.
The board would include two retired accountants, and would have power to set standards, fine or even ban accountants and auditors, and police sharp limits on what extra services – such as lucrative consultancies – they can offer clients.

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blog:Google says Apple rejected voice app for iPhone

Google Inc said Apple Inc rejected its Google Voice application for the popular iPhone, contradicting Apple’s statement to regulators last month.
The issue prompted the Federal Communications Commission to send letters to the companies and AT&T Inc, the iPhone’s exclusive carrier, demanding explanations.

The issue over Google’s voice service could have far-reaching implications for the U.S. telecommunications industry. Depending on how the FCC responds, it could either pave the way for new entrants or hinder their ability to use large carriers’ phones to offer discount services.

It also represents a quandary for regulators trying to promote the use of broadband among all Americans for communications, healthcare and education as wireless technology changes at such a rate that may outpace current rules.

According to redacted material made public on the FCC’s website on Friday, Google said

blog:Foaming at mouth’

Attacking the Conservatives, the business secretary said David Cameron’s party wanted “deep, savage, indiscriminate, across-the-board spending cuts”.

He added: “The fact is that a new generation of Conservatives is now foaming at the mouth with excitement at the turn of economic events.

“They believe it releases them from the need to remake the image of the Conservative Party as a nice party with a genuine concern for fairness and commitment to public services now.”

Lord Mandelson went on: “It presents them instead with their longed-for opportunity to take forward the mission that Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Lawson, Keith Joseph and Norman Tebbit started in 1979 but failed to complete after 18 years in government.”

He promised Labour would try to create economic conditions which would “enable us to maintain frontline service delivery”.

Lord Mandelson’s comments came as the TUC’s annual congress got under way in Liverpool, with unions warning that cuts would mean mass public sector redundancies.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said slashing public spending would cause a “double-dip” recession, leaving up to four million people unemployed.

Speaking earlier on BBC Radio 4’s Today, Lord Mandelson did not use the word “cuts” to describe the government’s approach to public spending.

But he said: “It will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas which do meet the new challenges. I can’t be clearer than that…

“Everything is going to have to be examined.”

Asked about whether Trident nuclear deterrent scheme and plans for ID cards could be cancelled as part of Labour’s savings programme, Lord Mandelson said nothing had been decided or ruled out.

However, he said it was not certain “that the assumptions that some people are making about savings that those big projects would offer would actually come about in reality.

“I’ve seen some rather different figures related to the savings that would arise from cancelling those projects which don’t make the contribution that some people imagine.”

blog:U.S. general calls for more troops in Afghanistan

America’s top commander in Afghanistan warns that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

“Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in the document, according to the Post.

Bob Woodward of the Post — who wrote the article — called it “a striking thing for a general to say to the secretary of defense and the commander-in-chief.”

McChrystal “really takes his finger and puts it in their eye, ‘Deliver or this won’t work,’” Woodward told CNN’s “American Morning” on Monday. “He says if they don’t endorse this full counterinsurgency strategy, don’t even give me the troops because it won’t work.”

The document was “leaked” to the newspaper, but parts were omitted after consultations between the newspaper and the Department of Defense, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.

“While we would have much preferred none of this be made public at this time, we appreciate the paper’s willingness to edit out those passages, which would likely have endangered personnel and operations in Afghanistan,” Morrell said in a statement.

President Obama is considering the assessment of troop levels completed by McChrystal over the summer, however, a review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan won’t be driven “by the politics of the moment,” Obama said on Sunday.

“Every time I sign an order, you know, I’m answerable to the parents of those young men and women who I’m sending over there, and I want to make sure that it’s for the right reason,” Obama told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The president put off questions about whether additional troops would be needed, saying, “I don’t want to put the resource question before the strategy question.” But he said Afghans need to show that they are “willing to make the commitment to build their capacity to secure their own country.”

The United States now has about 62,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, with NATO and other allies contributing about 35,000 more. The Pentagon is planning to add 6,000 troops by year’s end, and some members of Congress say McChrystal soon will call for thousands more.

The fighting has ramped up sharply in the past year as U.S. troops and a NATO-dominated coalition battle a resurgence of the Taliban, the al Qaeda-allied Islamic militia that ruled most of Afghanistan before the attacks. Washington poured an additional 21,000 troops into Afghanistan to provide security for its recent presidential election, which has been marred by allegations of fraud.

In August, 48 U.S. troops were killed in the fighting, surpassing the previous high of 45 in July. And the war has spread into Pakistan, where Taliban fighters are now battling government troops in that nuclear-armed country.

Obama said he has ordered “a soup-to-nuts re-evaluation” of the U.S. strategy, refocusing “on what our original goal was, which was to get al Qaeda, the people who killed 3,000 Americans” in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“To the extent that our strategy in Afghanistan is serving that goal, then we’re on the right track,” he said. “If it starts drifting away from that goal, then we may have a problem.”