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Nasdaq goes on attack, claiming LSE 'milks' its dominant position
By James Moore
Published: 09 January 2007

The Nasdaq turned tough yesterday, accusing the London Stock Exchange of "milking its dominant position" in an "unsustainable manner" in its latest attempt to win over LSE shareholders.

The US exchange also launched an attack on the LSE's directors, claiming they had placed "independence before shareholder value" and said the LSE's share price would fall sharply if its hostile bid failed.

The latest circular from the Nasdaq provoked a strongly worded response from the London Stock Exchange, which rejected its arguments and accused the Nasdaq of making statements that were "blatantly misleading" and indulging in little more than "bluster".

An LSE insider said: "It's rich to criticise the LSE for not concentrating on shareholder value when anyone wanting to take more than 20 per cent of the Nasdaq has to get their approval. It seems they are getting rattled."

The City bookmaker Cantor Index now makes the London Stock Exchange retaining its independence the 1-3 favourite - the shortest price this has been since the Nasdaq launched its hostile takeover.

In its document the Nasdaq also attacked the LSE's business saying the London exchange "completely fails to acknowledge new competitive threats" such as Project Turquoise, the pan-European share-trading platform being set up by a group of investment banks.

The Nasdaq reiterated its threat to sell its stake in the LSE should the offer fail and claimed it could make money on the 28.85 per cent of the LSE it holds at any price above £11 because the strength of sterling has made its holding worth more.


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Wall to wall green on the AllOrbs. All suctors up.

Utilities and miners leading the way. SmallCraps lagging the BigCraps.

Signs of buying panics developing in BHP and RIO Tinto.

What a difference a day makes.

On the funnymental side here in Oz, extreme weather conditions are starting to be felt in the economy.

Huge percentage of companies are now saying the drought is affecting business, mostly retailers. Story

On the other hand, flooding damage from recent storms in Western Australia has some mines and smelters closed, including some of the big nickel operations.

Surreal day where I am. New bushfires are raging not too far away. Orange disk of a sun with really, really thick smoke in the air.

Bullrun on the AllOrbs.

With BHP at around 10% of the whole OZ market and up 3.5%, the bears had no chance today.

Largecraps set the pace again today. Every sucktor stayed green, lead by the miners/materials.


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Does anyone know why DDM gapped down 6 points on 12/20/06 while DIA didn't budge?

Pizza Patron Goes 'Dual Currency'
Fast-growing Latino Pizza Chain Launches Pizza Por Pesos™ Nationwide



DALLAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Pizza Patron, the premier Latino pizza brand, which goes by the slogan 'Mas Pizza. Menos Dinero,' announced today that it would be accepting Mexican pesos as well as U.S. currency at each of its 59 locations nationwide. The Pizza por Pesos™ program goes into effect immediately, and is scheduled to run until the end of February 2007. The timetable may be extended depending upon the needs of their core Hispanic customer base.

"Many of our customers travel back and forth to Mexico regularly, and sometimes they end up with pesos left over," said Ernesto Alonso Hernandez, director or restaurant operations for Pizza Patron Inc. "We have always welcomed our people, and now we also welcome the currency of our homeland. We want to make Pizza Patron a better choice for our customers than any of our competitors."

Get Your Pizza for Peso's

Dividend of $6.81 paid.

Are you trying to use that charting service for TA charts?

Hard to get useful charts when the data is crap.

Hope you aren't paying for it.

Try Doc's service in left panel.

Thanks!

StockSharePublishing gets their feed from Yahoo.

A good laugh!

Dividend adjustments on Yahoo often get missed on payment day.

Eventually they usually catch up, but not always.

Right now Yahoo has the adjusted price right for DDM, including the dividend.

Not saying Yahoo had it right when that chart was generated, but it hardly matters. Subscribers to that site aren't paying Yahoo, they are paying the site owners for accurate information and have a right to get it.

If the data is crap, the charts are crap.

So subscribers to that site's software are paying for crap.

Hope you're not one of them.

I hear ya..

I paid $200 a couple of years back. A one-time cost. Worth every penny imo..

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen!

In Euroland.....

Crude Earl getting no respect and BP announces that can seem to pump much out of the ground recently. Production fell 20% or so last quarter.

Miners catching bids on the Footsie following through from Sydney action earlier.

LargeCraps seem to be out performing the SmallCraps on all major bourses.

Crude takin' another brutal beating this morning...Oil dipsters gonna wake up to a bit of a surprise...

$50 could very well be next stop. That break at $60 a few days ago was huge...

British Pound at important pivot area here....if it rolls over here, uptrend could be in jeopardy...

Watching that 1.30 Level on the Euro VERY closely now...so far, just a dead cat bounce, after the monster fakeout reversal last week.

Silver breakin' off again after runnin' headfirst into to the old floor at $12.50...very important pivot now set at $12.50...

New 52 week lows on USO and OIH is down 2%. My setup has failed, no clue what happens if 120 isn't the turn area now. OIH is now open for ridiculous shennanigans and a pile driver type selloff.
Guess we shall see.
p.s. %$#$@$#%^



I have some very interesting news regarding Wal-Mart that needs to be read. It is on my thread on LOB for ideas.
Wal-Mart and Health Care
http://www.capitalstool.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8182

Up 8.34% on my F option.

K-wave, NTES at 18 support area?

I have to sell STEM this morning to offset the ITM OIH option gamble with April expiration. I tagged >4% on STEM yesterday after catching the low I think it should be about even....I think.


Looks like the Shanghai poker players are going to play hardball tactics with LFC. No way that gapdown this morning could have been caught I don't think. I was going to throw in some put gambles for entertainment in the China field. I can't miss out all together!

Anyone long Copper had better hope $2.50 holds....if not, the panic part of the move could very well begin...I have targets as low as $1.75, should we get a panic move.

Crap, I forgot that the NTES smackdown to 18 happened in 3.2 seconds illegally afterhours I guess. The data is there so the trade went thru somehow. I guess the order was in front of mine....
This is happening more and more K-Wave. Something is up with this stuff that I haven't seen in years. I have been gaming bid/asks pre-market for years. Basically there is nothing to lose and it is easy to control the bid/ask spread early.

I'm mainly looking for short setups with the setups I am seeing in the world markets...methinks we are now very close to synchronized global selling en masse.

Thailand, India, and Korea gving the best signs so far, and that Evening Star on China looks pretty ominous to me...any break below 105 on FXI should seal the deal, and it could get very ugly, very fast should that breach occur.


That LFC deal last night in China may have marked the turning point...unload to all the suckers and slam it hard....

LFC down 7% premarket...

Apple most likely gonna announce the iPhone today....sell the news?

One to watch today....

The headline news of the double on LFC was misleading.

That was the "A" Shares in Shanghai

That's a totally different company, for all practical purposes, than the Hong Kong "H" Shares or the NYSE ADR's.

Shanghai "A" shares only available to Chinesse residents demonimated in Yuan. Even borkers can't trade "A" shares for the ADR's or "H" Shares.

IPO was underpriced on purpose in Shanghai to whip up enthusiasm.

"H" Shares were actually down 5% overnight in Hong Kong-trading in HK$.

I was buying NTES last night so have this chart of the day...

You know, when we had that evenstar on gold I thought it was too easy. I have 5k to play a smack down setup. I already have the long Japan plays rolling.
Japan is all I care about right now. Once alt energy and other things break the mid range channel boring stuff I will delve back that way.
My 100 shares of FCEL are down like 7-8% now. That is why I only wanted 100 shares.
My second half average was to be here around 6 or hopefully a gap down needle bottom below 6. That is the setup I am gaming here. LW is spot on with his analysis of PBW etc. imo.
In May these alt techs had those wedge setups (as I posted). Individuals blasted off with 20% days individually for a week or 3 before that May selloff smackdown happened. All those 20% gapups were erased and the stocks were crushed 40-50% on average.
My 100 alt tech (non-nuclear or ethanl type stuff, is down 40% since starting before the clothesline.

What would be your favorite short setups? I am pathetic with options but would love a gamble option idea for a crash setup. I need some crazy hedges in other words.If it could be assumed that people have been buying stocks to hedge the falling dollar, wyndy is spot on about a dollar short squeeze or whatever definition you want to put on it.
I have 9k left in my account at the moment that I will sacrifice here since all other funds aren't even in the market and gains were simply guaranteed on the setups I chased outside of the market.....forget housing stuff, just know what I did was successful and against the norm so I am not really ambling anything that is not already the houses money anyways.....

Thanks Buskow, volume yesterday was only very low. There was no interest yesterday since the firwrok show was more fun.....jk!

Too bad there aren't a couple other exchanges, we could spell a funny word and create an ETF. BAH!!!

Actually volume was greater yest. than the preceeding down day, w/lower close. Just looked to me like someeone was pushing it down to buy it right there in the late going, so I took a little shot. Tight stop.

K-Wave, I think LFC may double current losses at some point today. Good idea to play this setup short even if we get blasted imo. I think I can maneuver losses I will probably make.

I would say that the REITs are my "most likely to crash in 2007" pick.

Watch 1060 on RMZ, once that goes the top should be sealed.....could get one last run upside, but if it doesn't, it should be bombs away very soon....

Euro right at 1.30 again.....moment of truth here methinks..

I'll throw so Kino chips on red13 aka 45 on LFC at some point before leaving today. I rented a track hoe and will be running over stuff all day if I can figure out how to drive it!
The guy next door to my friends office has 100 million dollars. He is a deep country coon ass tobacco lawyer. IT is pretty funny. He is letting me crank down the landscaping between the 2 properties.
OT but exciting. I am stopping by the major nursery here in a little while to get some equipment from the owner for free since they all know each other.....I am of course a nobody but play it like pro. You just can't compare to these people no matter what you ever achieve.

PWI is on red alert but the ask is still up there so not yet. I am up 1.5% from the close yesterday so I am only at a loss so far at the bid.

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Oil down 1.7 but OIH and SU have held up extremely well.
Very very odd.

I might take a stab at SU today.

K-Wave...JOF 10% volume.

RICK has been pretty strong after the earnings report. i held at 5.43 and sold out a little before 6. im thining at looking back into this company for a long term investment maybe a couple of weeks

Here comes Silver....if dey can punch it thru 12.50, bullz may have gained the upper hand...

if they fail..........

nice and cool here in S FL today. Around 67 degrees this morning after a couple of steamy days in the low 80s. Big snow in Quebec yesterday. We missed it. All the previous snow had melted by Sunday. A January melt in Quebec?

Bizarre.

DJ Fed Accepts $3.25 Bln In Overnight RPs

Type of transaction: Overnight RPs
Total accepted: $3.25 Bln
Total submitted: $27.7 Bln

Agency Collateral Operation
Total accepted: $765 Mln
Total submitted: $6.25 Bln
Stop-Out Rate: 5.21%
Weighted Average: 5.21%
High-rate submitted: 5.21%
Low-rate submitted: 5.17%

Treasury Collateral Operation
Total accepted: $2.402 Bln
Total submitted: $16.1 Bln
Stop-Out Rate: 5.17%
Weighted Average: 5.18%
High-rate submitted: 5.19%
Low-rate submitted: 5.14%

Mortgage-Backed Collateral Operations
Total accepted: $83 Mln
Total submitted: $5.35 Bln
Stop-Out Rate: 5.23%
Weighted Average: 5.23%
High-rate submitted: 5.23%
Low-rate submitted: 5.18%

bought to pick some up RICK here maybe risky but i see this going somewhere

Temperatures over the next week are forecast to continue to run 6 to 15 degrees F above normal in QC. So in spite of the snow, the weather is still warmer than normal. I assume that's true throughout the northeast, which accounts for the bulk of Nat gas and fuel oil consumption in the US.

wow got a really nice fill on RICK first time ameritrade gave me a good fill on a thinly traded stock.

Dong SU at 71.26.

FXI comin' down to test the pivot....mega short this one...wil lighten up if she don't break thru....

Got this feeling OIL is going to print one of those massive NEEDLE bottoms.

FXI new low fur da move....gotta keep pushin' here....

Action in MEDI!

Stop raid and then BANG!!

Got filled @ 34.01

Already took half off..

Enjoying the free ride!

Great setup on longer term charts too!

I concur

If I remember correctly PD hedges are around 1.75