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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Qantas anticipates price-fixing fine |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 3:30 am |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Consumer Protection, Industry, Business Regulation, Law Crime Justice, Air Transport, Australia, United States |
| Qantas says it will put aside $47 million to cover a fine that may be imposed in the United States due to alleged price-fixing by its freight division. |
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| Net Evangelist Rejects Regulation |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 12:20 pm |
| Tags: Social Media, Google, General, Bbc, Regulation, Vint Cerf, Youtube |
| not excercising their self-regulation policies (where users flag offensive content) in a more timely fashion. But Cerf rejects ideas of imposing constraints and suggests that these kind of issues should be rooted out organically: We have a job to do, collectively as a society, to deal with the problems we discover… but suppressing the |
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| Organ shortage - opposing views and potential solutions |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 11:08 pm |
| Tags: Unnecessary Regulation, Personal Liberty, Health Care, Health |
| There was an article in the NY Times a few days ago discussing the organ shortage and giving some proposals (article here). I meant to blog about it, but my life has been pretty busy at the moment so I haven’t gotten around to it. However, Sigrid Fry-Revere of the Cato Institute wrote about the particular article today. Says Fry-Revere: |
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| 'If, Then'.... Amgen Could Recover Much More (AMGN, BIIB) |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Biotech, Regulation |
| Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) has seen a slight recovery of late, mostly on reports that the U.S. Senate is asking Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to reconsider the drastically cut reimbursement rates. Shares just last week and the week before were trading just under $50.00, and shares are up almost 4% since last Friday's close. It remains |
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| 'If, Then'.... Amgen Could Recover Much More (AMGN, BIIB) |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Biotech, Regulation, Amgn |
| Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) has seen a slight recovery of late, mostly on reports that the U.S. Senate is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Between Sunshine and Markets |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 2:55 am |
| Tags: Business Economy, Globalization, Politics, Usa, Subscriptions, Edward L Glaeser, Frank Partnoy, Greg Mankiw, Joshua Rosner, Markets, Ratings Agencies, Regulation, Self Correction, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Subprime Mortgage Scandal, The Economist, Tnr |
| should prefer information to regulation. Brokers who are getting three times the normal commission rate for selling an exotic subprime product should have to disclose that. They should also be made to spell out the terms of interest-rate resets more clearly to borrowers. And other financial markets might be less prone to catching mortgage flu if |
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| SIRIUS & XM: A Bias Toward The Merger Closing (SIRI, XMSR) |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 10:36 am |
| Tags: Mergers Buy Outs, Regulation, Satellite |
| We have been steadily reviewing all of the trading in stock and options in shares of both Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:XMSR) to look at the probability of the pending merger successfully closing. The open interest in the XMSR JAN-08 $15 Calls is over 60,000 contracts alone (equivalent to 6 million shares), |
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| Failed NZ companies prompt new regulations |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 6:00 am |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Business Regulation, New Zealand |
| The New Zealand Government has introduced new regulations for finance companies, building societies and credit unions. |
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| SIRIUS & XM: A Bias Toward The Merger Closing (SIRI, XMSR) |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 10:36 am |
| Tags: Mergers Buy Outs, Regulation, Satellite |
| We have been steadily reviewing all of the trading in stock and options in shares of both Sirius... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Govt urges regulator to crack down on brothels |
| Published: September 15, 2007, 7:19 am |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Business Regulation, Vic |
| The Victorian Government says Consumer Affairs Victoria needs to play a stronger role in addressing illegal brothel activity. |
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| Industry group says more tax reform needed |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 7:13 pm |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Business Regulation, Tax, Australia |
| A leading industry group has urged further business and personal tax reform, whichever party wins the federal election. |
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| Predatory pricing laws go too far: Fels |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 5:43 pm |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Business Regulation, Government Politics, Australia |
| The former chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says the Federal Government has gone too far in its efforts to protect small business. |
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| Will Saber Rattling Kill NASDAQ/OMX/LSE/Dubai Deal? (NDAQ, NYX, C) |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Exchange News, Financial Stocks, Regulation |
| The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ:NDAQ) has been in a long hunt over how it plans to grow and compete in a new world of mega-exchanges, and frankly its second place status in the U.S. for stocks is one that it would acknowledge is far from that of the NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX). It was unsuccessful in its buyout of the London Stock Exchange. Then it |
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| Will Saber Rattling Kill NASDAQ/OMX/LSE/Dubai Deal? (NDAQ, NYX, C) |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Exchange News, Financial Stocks, Regulation, Ndaq |
| The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ:NDAQ) has been in a long hunt over how it plans to grow and compete... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Mattel says sorry to China over toy recalls |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 3:49 pm |
| Tags: Business Economics Finance, Company News, Consumer Protection, Industry, Manufacturing, Business Regulation, China, United States |
| The world's biggest toy maker, Mattel, has apologised to China over a series of recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys. |
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