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From sweaty T-shirts to online bets: The changing world of Peter Dubens ; Business profile:The serial entrepreneur behind GX Networks on the secrets of his success

REMEMBER THOSE T-shirts that changed colour depending on your body temperature that were hugely popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s? The ones that caused brightly coloured and, of course,highly embarrassing marks to appear in the armpit area of […]

Daily News, New York, Peter Siris Column

Oct. 13–On Friday, I was skimming the morning’s research, when a headline from Deutsche Bank made me drop my mouse. “Texas Instruments — Throwing in the Valuation Towel — Upgrade to Hold.” TI was at $24.99. The analyst said its […]

Wisconsin Firm Ademi & O’Reilly, LLP Announces the Filing of a Class Action Suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Against Strong Financial Corporation Defendants and Canary on Behalf of Purchasers of the Securi

Wisconsin Firm Ademi & O’Reilly, LLP Announces the Filing of a Class Action Suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Against Strong Financial CorporationDefendants and Canary on Behalf of Purchasers of the Securities of […]

Wisconsin Firm Ademi & O’Reilly, LLP Announces the Filing of a Class Action Suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Against Strong Financial Corporation Defendants and Canary on Behalf of Purchasers of the Securi

Wisconsin Firm Ademi & O’Reilly, LLP Announces the Filing of a Class Action Suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Against Strong Financial CorporationDefendants and Canary on Behalf of Purchasers of the Securities of […]

Macgregor to Host ‘Best Execution’ Events; Four City Series Set For Buy Side this Fall

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 13, 2003–Macgregor, a global provider of buy side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, today announced that it will be hosting a series ofevents this Fall on best execution. The series, targeted towards buy side […]

OANDA Launches API for Its Foreign Exchange Trading Platform

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 13, 2003– Brokers, Corporate Treasurers, Money Managers, Hedge Funds and Active Retail Traders Benefit With Automated FX Trading OANDA, a pioneering currency trading and information company, today announced the availability of an application programming interface (API) for […]

Wilshire Says SEC Probing Former Trades

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) – Wilshire Associates Inc., which operates a major stock index and consults for the country’s largest pension funds, says the Securities and Exchange Commission is examiningshort-term mutual fund trades it made over the past 10 years. […]

Illicit trades in mutual fund scandal steal a little from many

Illicit trades in mutual fund scandal steal a little from many Fraud costs small investors $400 million a year, by Spitzer’s reckoning By HANK EZELL Cox News Service Sunday, October 12, 2003 Atlanta — People used to tell the story […]

A tycoon tag fight at Old Trafford ; Are they waiting for another Abramovich or just glory hunting? Abigail Townsend reports on stake-building fever at Man Utd

B etween doping tests and the England football team’s short-lived revolt, the name of Manchester United was popping up everywhere last week in the papers. News. Sport. Comment. Letters. Even the Leaders. Yet it was the business pages that the […]

Market mover Nickel

Is this the cult of the commodity? The nickel price jumped to a 13-year high this week as investors became more confident about the economic recovery. Commodity prices have rallied in the last six months but precious metals have hogged […]

Bloodstock duo pull reins on Man U bid

Irish horseracing tycoons J P McManus and John Magnier have let it be known they have ruled out launching a takeover bid for Manchester United. The two, who are currently at loggerheads with Sir Alex Ferguson over the ownership of […]

Investment: The City View Brokers’ Reports

VPRUDENTIAL Barclays Private Clients is recommending shares in Prudential, the insurance giant. Why? “First, Prudential, with its geographic spread, is well positioned to benefit from a worldwide recovery in the economy and stock markets. Second, we forecast 17 per cent […]