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Moves with predictability and the market.

The Real Story Wrap: May 20
Stocks in the U.S. slid into the close Tuesday as sellers swarmed Wall Street amid a slew of bad tidings, including warmer-than-expected inflationary data, negative news on the corporate side and another record for oil prices.

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The Real Story Wrap: April 3, 2008
Downbeat data on unemployment claims get countered by good news from the services sector. Plus news of another round of cost cutting at Schering.

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Buy - Price 27.49 on Aug. 28
by Sandler O'Neill
Target: 30.50. MF provides execution and clearing services for exchange-traded and [over-the-counter] derivative products....we believe MF deserves a premium to a group of regional U.S. equity brokers currently trading at 14.1 times 2008 expected earnings per share. MF trades at a 24.5% discount to FCStone, which is focused on volatile grain futures (e.g. ethanol-related) and has a limited float...we have modeled for revenues of $8.82 billion for fiscal-year 2007 (marking a growth of 15% year-over-year) and $2.12 billion for Q3 FY07.

closed end fund -10.88 discount

"Norges Bank, the Central Bank of Norway, cut its stake to 5.59 million shares (4.67%) from the 6.07 million (5.07%) it had reported owning in August."