The investor reaction is probably not the result of BMO Capital research analyst Daniel Salmon having disproportionate power over market players.

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"Irregular and highly suspicious options trading immediately in front of a merger or acquisition announcement is a serious red flag that traders may be improperly acting on confidential non-public information" said the SEC's head of the Market Abuse Unit, Daniel Hawke.

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Daniel Lamy of JPMorgan reckons 23% of the market for European senior secured loans will mature by the end of 2012 (and 44% by end-2013).

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Novartis Chief Daniel Vasella says that an excessive focus on mass-market bestsellers can backfire.

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"We are clear to begin the next steps toward bringing the first weekly dose diabetes therapy to the market in the United States, " Amylin Chief Executive Daniel Bradbury said on a conference call with analysts.

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Keynes once argued that it would improve market quality by curtailing short-term speculation, according to Daniel Weaver, a professor of finance at Rutgers Business School.

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In his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman argues that comprehensive, targeted and organized environmental data can trigger real market shifts among consumers.

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The CSRC, as Daniel Ren of the South China Morning Post notes, cannot prevent new issues from coming to market forever.

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