CBM, a consultancy, the main potential for online bond-trading is in fixed-income securities that are already fairly liquid: these (notably government bonds and blue-chip corporate bonds) are likely to become more liquid, and more keenly priced.

ECONOMIST: E-bonds, licensed to kill

It is done using a special type of liquid-crystal array developed by a British firm called Light Blue Optics, which is also developing the technology for use in tiny projectors (see article).

ECONOMIST: Monitor

To be sold as tequila in the U.S., the booze must be distilled from fermented liquid that is at least 51% the juice of the blue agave plant grown in the southwest Mexican state of Jalisco (and a few other areas).

FORBES: Mexican Invasion