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    Bloomberg.com new layout WTF?

    Indeed! I am ok with teh new Bloomberg Web-site. The old black layout was more unique but you get the same navigation options. A couple of other Web-sites I use have changed their navigation completely. So, instead of using a drop-down menue at the top page, you now have to go to the front...
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    Germany finally starts initiative to establish own European rating agency...

    and via google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.handelsblatt.com%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Fkampfansage-aus-hessen-fuer-moodys-und-co%2F4320602.html
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    Bloomberg.com new layout WTF?

    It looks this way. The front page redirects to the "white" version.
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    German Nuclear Plants to Close.

    The (British) government has pushed ahead with plans for atomic power, confirming the eight locations it has deemed suitable for new plants by 2025 in its first policy statement on the issue since the nuclear crisis in Japan. The sites – all adjacent to existing nuclear plants – are...
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    Russia to Reduce US Debt Holdings- That's what happens when you print, no one wants y

    Is there any intergovernmental agreement in place to allow people who live close to the border to travel from China to Russia and from Russia to China without need for visas?
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    Russia to Reduce US Debt Holdings- That's what happens when you print, no one wants y

    I'm glad someone called bullshit. When I called Chinese "the foreign language of choice" I was somewhat mislead by sensationalist wording in news articles I linked above. From the data I have it appears that somewhere between 15% and 20% of choolchildren in Vladivostok (Russian city about 100...
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    Like Wikileaks, LulzSec now accepting leaks. More fallout for Wall Street & BAC?

    It's probably because LulzSec don't have an official Web-site in the US... Realistically, lots of modern Web-sites are desined with the idea that no smart kid can take more than a couple of hours off facebook to learn how to hack.
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    Implications of Dodd-Frank Act on Forex and Precious Metals?

    No, it will only be illegal to trade metals via a bucket shop. Tradings spot forex or metal futures or forex futures is stil completely legal. Also it is going to be still completely legal to buy, hold and sell gold bullions or gold coins or silver coins.
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    Implications of Dodd-Frank Act on Forex and Precious Metals?

    the link doesn't work. I think below is the right link: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/dodd-frank-precious-metal-trading-prohibition-could-make-hedge-fund-fx-trading-illegal
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    UAE Trade Free Zone - is it legal for US Citizens or a shortcut to the graybar hotel

    The important part is whether the business is separate from you for tax purposes. Jurisdiction is of no importance unless it's a different US state.
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    Is IB designed to just feed liquidity to Timber Hill?

    It's a shame if this thread is slowly dying out. I was hoping for further comments from IB. Some of us, like me, are actually happy clients. We are just trying to figure out what is going on.
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    Solution to the PIIGS debt crisis....

    So, what you are saying is if Greek banks own some subprime CDOs with market value, say 20 cents on the dollar, someone should buy these from the banks for the full dollar so that the management of the banks could pay themselves exceptionally good bonus for making exceptionally bad decisions...
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    trading gold/ silver to be illegal beginning july 15, 2011?

    Good point. Spreadbetting "futures" (or any other financial spreadbetting products for that matter) are contracts for difference and thus exactly "over the counter" (OTC) contracts the new regulation refers to.
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    Fire Walking anyone?

    Thanks for the link. Now it's easy to see what kind of mind trick firewalking is:
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    Fire Walking anyone?

    Do the Kahuna adepts get their feet wet in cold water before walking on fire? If they do, it's as much about belief in modern physics as about mental power.
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    Percent of retail contracts

    OK, here is some data. OK it is equities and it is in Australia. Because institutional traders often split large orders into small orders (in order to conceal the presence of a large order from the market), these researchers decided to classify order by the broker: some brokers are known to...
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    trading gold/ silver to be illegal beginning july 15, 2011?

    Most "news" on the Web refer to a single E-mail from forex.com. Here is some clarification: http://www.theeestory.com/topics/8659?page=1#p195151
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    Stop paying credit cards. Give yourself a bailout!!

    From http://www.economist.com/node/16636027 "Spending per prisoner ranges from $18,000 a year in Mississippi to about $50,000 in California, where the cost per pupil is but a seventh of that. " So, for someone refusing to pay $10,000 on a credit card in California the cost of encarceration...
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    Russia to Reduce US Debt Holdings- That's what happens when you print, no one wants y

    http://news.cultural-china.com/20100322113130.html?PHPSESSID=1ca8e5c8474740b636f7c666b4b730b4 http://www.mandarinday.com/index.php/home/article/26.html And a few links concerning the Chinese in Russian far east...
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    Controlled and Automated Quote Data Generator, How?

    Unless you want to generate much more than 50,000 "random" price points Microsoft Excel is the best (that is unless you are familiar with a mathematical package like S-Plus, R, Matlab etc). In excel you can simulate independednt logarithmic returns, GARCH and other price distributions. The...
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