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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

• 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

• New Rules for OTC Stocks

  - 2007-02-01

  The NASD is expanding its rules for front-running in the OTC market. The regulator plans to repeal its Rule 6541, which prohibits market makers from trading ahead of customer limit orders in OTC Bulletin Board securities. Simultaneously, the NASD will extend the application of its Manning...

  Tags: NASD, SECURITY, upshot

• New Rules for OTC Stocks.

  - 2007-02-01

  The NASD is expanding its rules for front-running in the OTC market. The regulator plans to repeal its Rule 6541, which prohibits market makers from trading ahead of customer limit orders in OTC Bulletin Board securities. Simultaneously, the NASD will extend...

  Tags: NASD, SECURITY, upshot

• A shocking state of IT security.(Tech Talk)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-12-01

  Throwing money at information security has never been a particularly effective way of preventing or solving IT problems. Indeed, the Department of Energy DOE is finding that throwing $2.7 billion (the amount estimated for fiscal year 2004) at its computer security issues may not do the...

  Tags: Department of Energy, SECURITY, Strategy, upshot

• Should Hezbollah Be Next?

  - 2003-11-01

  THE A TEAM On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Arab, attack, Government, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, SECURITY, Syria, U.S., upshot

• The Right To Humanitarian Assistance

  - 2000-09-22

  It is impossible to assert, at the present point, that a general right to humanitarian assistance has actually crystallized in positive international law. Such a general right, had it consolidated, could be invoked in all circumstances: in peacetime (either in the face of endemic problems of famine, malnutrition, and disease,...

  Tags: Charter, civilian, M., Manufacturing, Red Cross, SECURITY, upshot

• Strange times

  - 1999-03-01

  PINOCHET The arrest of Senator Augusto Pinochet in Britain, to the great excitement and satisfaction of the Allende groupies in the Blair Government, has brought into focus once again how much the mainstream media has a particular brand of selective morality in its inability to discuss complex issues. Press...

  Tags: Chile, journalist, SECURITY, supervisor, upshot, Washington Post Co.