This would allow even the tiniest Hong Kong broker to offer its clients online trading on the Exchange's site, which will simply check with the brokers to confirm the client's account balance and credit-standing before executing the order.

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Only after that can the exchange formally adopt the rules, publish them on their Web site and begin operations.

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Trading on the MTGox exchange, which handles most trades in Bitcoins, was sluggish yesterday as the site fought off an attack.

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Idit Yaaron, the spokeswoman for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, told CNN that the main site of the stock exchange where the trading takes place was not harmed and operates on a very high level of Internet security.

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By giving away its site's traffic in exchange for more video views, Google is likely betting on the future of "in-stream" advertising--video ad clips or pictorial ads overlaid on videos--rather than the display ads or text ads that typically appear on Google's sites.

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