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- Knight Capital glitch may spur regulatory review
Because of Securities and Exchange Commission rules, NYSE Euronext could not stop the trading glitch that drained $440 million from Knight Capital Group on Aug. 1, said Knight CEO Tom Joyce. As a result, U.S. regulators may take another look at how electronic-trading gone awry is handled and how effective volume circuit breakers are, he said. Reuters
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- Wall Street doubts Pandit's new plan will fix Citigroup
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit says international deals, mobile payments and growth in emerging markets mean his company is headed into a bright future. A poll by Barclays banking analyst Jason Goldberg found investors are more interested in hearing what Pandit plans to do about legacy losses at CitiHoldings, an entity holding "noncore assets" that Citigroup has been trying to get off its books since the financial crisis. Minyanville.com
(9/11)
- Report: N.J.'s revenues less than forecast this year
Revenues collected by New Jersey in the 2012 budget year have come up $254 million short of the government projections, the legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst reported. Gov. Chris Christie dismissed the information out-of-hand. "All of this stuff is blatantly political," Christie said. CBS News
(9/11)
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- 5 leadership lessons from the NFL's top teams
NFL teams are billion-dollar businesses with a double bottom line, making life tough for bosses who are expected to ensure both sporting and financial success, say executives from the league's top teams. Leaders need to strike a balance between managing their athletes and giving their coaching team room to do their jobs, all while living with constant scrutiny. "We're supposed to be a private company. But in reality, we're a public company and we issue a report every week," says Baltimore Ravens President Dick Cass. The Wall Street Journal
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- AdvisorShares aims to launch income-oriented ETF
AdvisorShares filed a registration statement for an actively managed exchange-traded fund focused on generating income for shareholders. The Newfleet Multi-Sector Income ETF would buy a wide range of fixed-income securities that subadviser Newfleet Asset Management thinks are undervalued. Zacks
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Collusion and bid rigging by private-equity firms, including Bain Capital, were revealed in court documents that are part of a U.S. lawsuit. Shareholders of firms acquired by private-equity funds claimed that they were cheated out of billions of dollars when the private-equity-backed buyers cooperated with one another to depress prices offered for more than two dozen companies. 
Angela Knight, then CEO of the British Bankers' Association, suggested four years before issues arose with the London Interbank Offered Rate that Libor had grown too big for the association to manage. Knight's remarks in a meeting with officials of the Bank of England apparently led to no action. 
