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• The Pricing Spread End Game.

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, revenue, security, upshot

• The Pricing Spread End Game

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The upshot is that spreads have decreased...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, upshot

• Don't whistle while you work: at the Bush administration's whistleblower office, tips on murder, espionage, and terrorism are processed "in the order in which they are received." But any sign of the homosexual agenda—that is priority number

  - 2007-05-01

  IT LOOKED AS IF LEROY SMITH was going to get some recognition after all. A safety manager at a federal prison in California, he had challenged his bosses, risked his job, and endured threats of retaliation to expose hazardous conditions in a prison computer recycling program where inmates were smashing...

  Tags: agency, FBI, Government, MARKETING, retaliation, security, terrorism, U.S. Congress, UpShot, White House

• Inside the administrative state: a critical look at the practice of presidential control.

  - 2006-10-01

  From the inception of the administrative state, scholars have proposed various models of agency decision-making to render such decision-making accountable and effective, only to see those models falter when confronted by actual practice. Until now, the "presidential control" model has been largely impervious to this...

  Tags: agency, Bush, Council, MARKETING, president, regulation, Richard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, upshot, White House, Yes

• Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law

  - 2006-03-01

  ABSTRACT In recent years, the formal environmental lawmaking dimension of Congress has become effectively moribund. Earlier Congresses were, by contrast, celebrated for enacting sweeping, demanding environmental laws and for passing significant and increasingly detailed amendments in response to subsequent developments in executive branch agencies, federal courts, and the states. Now,...

  Tags: agency, Environmental, MARKETING, pollution, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, upshot

• Airlines looking like Scrooge

  - 2005-10-05

  With fuel prices high and financial troubles boiling at many of the nation's largest airlines, travelers planning to fly in the December holiday season will see even higher prices than usual. Seats are also disappearing far earlier this year. While airlines often raise prices during peak travel periods,...

  Tags: American Airlines, fare, FINANCE, INTERNET, MARKETING, upshot

• Watch your synchronizers, and other 'platforms'

  - 2004-08-26

  Think of it as Platform Diving: The Home Game. In a clever bid to boost the ratings, profits and profiles of its sister networks, NBC has spread the Olympic wealth to USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo and its HDTV channel. The upshot is you can watch someone you've never...

  Tags: Cable, Games, MARKETING, MSNBC, NBC Universal Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, upshot

• The UpShot for Siebel

  BNET - 2004-01-20

  As interest in hosted CRM grows stronger, Siebel is moving to establish a foothold in this market. The company achieved a significant victory last fall when it acquired CRM vendor UpShot. The deal was sweet for both companies, executives and analysts noted, because it gave UpShot stability and visibility while...

  Tags: UpShot, Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, ECT News Network, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

• Nucleus Research Declares Old CRM Dead; Hosted CRM Strategies Guide Users Towards Maximized ROI

  - 2003-11-10

  Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WELLESLEY, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 10, 2003 More than 80% of customers using hosted CRM solutions from SalesForce.com and Upshot achieve a positive ROI Nucleus Research, the leading provider of bottom-line focused technology research, today announced its conclusions from a year-long series of independent studies...

  Tags: CRM, FINANCE, MARKETING, Nucleus Research Inc., ROI, ROI/TCO, Salesforce.com Inc., SOFTWARE, UpShot

• The Role of FDI in Emerging Market Economies Compared to Other Forms of Financing: Past Developments and Implications for Financial Stability

  BNET - 2003-02-24

  This paper discusses the problems pertaining to defining what actually constitutes FDI and the measurement problems that result from the difficulties. The upshot is that the recorded items can vary widely from one country to the other and FDI statistics must therefore be interpreted with a sense of caution. It...

  Tags: Financial, Financing, Emerging Market, Foreign Direct Investment, Bank For International Settlements, Upshot, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing