BoC To Auction C$2bln In 30 Day TLF on Monday
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White House Officially Signs Off On Automaker Loan Agreements
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Fed to Further Revise TALF Terms Based on Market Needs Going Forward
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Fed Extends TALF Loan Maturity from 1yr to 3yrs
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TALF Loans No Longer Distributed Through Auction, Available to All Eligible Borrowers --NY FED
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BoA Sells $6.75bln of FDIC-Backed Debt
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IL Governor intends to stay on the Job; will answer questions in appropriate forum
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Obama - economists insist economy must be put back on track first
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Obama - part of econ plan...mechanism to get budgets under control
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Obama - once we get economy back on track, we will be confronted w/ "this enormous deficit"
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Obama - will change how business is done in D.C.; no road to nowhere...
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Obama - focus on job creation, increasing demand, fix financial markets will cost significant amount of money
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Obama - need bold approach to stop rapid econ decline
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Community Bankers Trust Gets $17.68mln of TARP Funds
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Obama - concerned about Stimulus estimates; econ forecasts have deteriorated
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Obama - must have reciprocity in Trade Agreements; labor, environmental agreements must be part of trade agreements
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Obama - must rebuild regulatory structure
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Obama - create jobs and train workers for them; the way to keep jobs in the U.S. is to rebuild infrastructure
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No FED speeches scheduled thru year end - barring unforseen events
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Petrobras Gas, Oil Output Totaled 2.17mln BPD in November
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Automated Trader : Execution Research

Quantitative Service Groups (QSG) June research note on NYFIX Millennium trade execution has caused quite a stir in the industry. The research, which examined three months of detailed NYFIX execution data, will leave buyside traders who have long sought empirical evidence on the performance of dark pools praying that it is just the tip of the analytical iceberg. Andy Webb talks to Tim Sargent, President and Co-founder of QSG, about the report and its findings.

Dark Pool Delivers

By Tim Sargent

How did the research come about?

Our institutional clients have obviously long been interested in dark pools and particularly some objective measure of their execution potential. NYFIX had initially commissioned QSG to help analyse its Millennium execution data for the purpose of identifying any information that would be valuable from a client perspective. Through this research, we saw results that were pretty compelling, so we asked for authorisation to use the data for our own research. From our and our clients’ perspective it was a tremendous opportunity to gain a comprehensive view of a dark pool. While we have access to the execution performance of more than a hundred institutional clients across multiple execution venues (including the major exchanges and largest alternative trading systems) the opportunity of gaining a more holistic picture across an entire venue was extremely attractive. ...

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