Its specialists were losing business to more-efficient electronic trading--and were being investigated for front-running, that is, trading for their own accounts ahead of clients'.
In July 2012 Australia's 500 biggest polluters will start paying a tax on emissions, ahead of an emissions-trading scheme due to start three years later.
U.S. business leaders welcomed the latest move but said they would have liked to see a more definitive statement that the U.S. was joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is viewed by some leaders as a stepping stone to a wider Asia-Pacific free-trading bloc in the years ahead.
Councillors will discuss the plans on 13 March and if its gets the go-ahead the firm will start trading on 1 April.
Comex gold futures prices are modestly higher in early U.S. trading Friday, on some position-squaring and more chart consolidation ahead of the most important market event of the week, if not the month: a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday morning.
The dollar index weakened by 0.5% against a basket of trading partners ahead of a report expected to reveal a rebound from a six-month low for existing home sales.
Shares of Family Dollar sold-off for a third day in a row ahead of trading on Thursday and are also trading at technically oversold levels.
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But in an attempt to quash the speculation -- which had seen Barclays shares plunge by more than 12 percent -- the group stressed its Barclays Capital investment banking division was trading ahead of last year.
Some leading tech stocks may have gone too far too fast and are now trading at high-risk levels, while others are showing signs of continued upside ahead.
Some see parallels with the late 1990s, when the first generation of electronic-trading networks consolidated, or were bought by exchanges looking to get ahead in the technological arms race.
But Friday's moves were slim, as a dearth of news and low trading volume gave investors little incentive to take a stand ahead of the long New Year-holiday weekend.
However, news of the January launch has buoyed investors - shares in the Canadian company rose 5.5% ahead of trading on Monday.
Trading was lukewarm, but investors had little motive to bail on the soft market ahead of a three-day weekend after the White House said President Obama will announce details of a foreclosure prevention plan on Feb. 18.
Critics say it's all just business as usual for an agency that, in the last eight years, failed to detect the accounting irregularities at Enron, the mutual fund late-trading activities, the subprime securities bubble, and mounting evidence that there has been trading ahead of major deal announcements.
But there are bumpy months ahead for Mr Zapatero, as Spain's two most fractious regions engage in rough horse-trading over their future relationship with Madrid.
The results were well ahead of market expectations, and the company's share price gained 6% in after-hours trading.
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