Dr. James Angel, associate finance professor at Georgetown, noted that 70% of the trades canceled on May 6 were from exchange-traded funds.

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Mr Zedillo this week named Jose Angel Gurria, his finance minister, to head the outgoing government's transition team.

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They also found an unlikely angel investor to help finance them: the father of a high-school student that had tried out their checker.

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