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There are other technologies for alternative fuels out there that works! There is knowledge. The government knows and the oil industry knows. We could have been using other alternative energy years ag…

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Tomatoes from the grocery store shelves taste like–NOTHING! Why? Most of the tomatoes purchased from grocery stores have been harvested days before they reach the grocery, treated to turn red, a…

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NYSE has just filed a change in our fees that will provide floor brokers with a credit when they add liquidity. Excerpt:

The Exchange proposes to amend its equity transaction fees, for implementation on March 1, 2008.

Member organizations will receive a $.0004 per share credit for execution of orders sent directly to the floor broker for representation on the NYSE when adding liquidity to the NYSE Display Book system (including Percentage Orders).(2)

Technological limitations(3) make it impossible for floor brokers to post orders on other markets while at the point of sale on the Exchange. Therefore, unlike other Exchange users, they are unable to benefit from the incentives certain other markets provide to customers who provide liquidity. The time that would elapse if a floor broker sent the order to his booth or upstairs trading desk for execution on another market means that, if the floor broker utilized this alternative, the trade would likely not get executed at the desired price. The Exchange believes this disparity places floor brokers at a competitive disadvantage to other Exchange customers and believes that the proposed credit will mitigate the effects of that disadvantage while also attracting additional liquidity to the Exchange.

The Exchange believes the credit is justified because of the importance of the floor brokers to the continuation of the floor as an integral part of the Exchange’s market model. The Exchange’s market model integrates the auction market with automated trading. Essential to this model is the interaction between the specialists, floor brokers and orders in the Display Book system, which creates opportunities for price improvement, provides information about changing market conditions and serves as a catalyst to trading. The Exchange believes that this incentive will allow floor brokers to remain competitive.

(2) An order adds liquidity to the market if it is posted on the book for execution against incoming orders on the contra side. Generally, Exchange customers are able to send their orders to other markets to avail themselves of incentives those markets provide to customers who provide liquidity. Floor brokers add liquidity to the market by posting orders either as eQuotes or as DOT or Percentage Orders. Non-electronic trades on the Exchange floor do not add liquidity to the book and are either charged a fee of $.0004 per share (if they are non-electronic agency transactions of less than 10,000 shares between brokers in the crowd) or are free (if they are non-electronic trades of 10,000 shares or more).

(3) The Exchange’s order management system on the floor, the Broker Booth Support System® (BBSS), is not configured to route orders away from the floor to another market.

This is another in a series of steps to enhance the value of our market. Again, there’s more to come. Will keep you posted. Hope this one will be of help to our brokers, from a perspective of competing, adding liquidity to the market, and providing a valuable service to customers — actually they’re all intertwined.

Happy Friday, my friends. Unless you’re long, it seems at the moment. Hey, just remember, things can always change. Consider how different things are today from not so long ago:

Financial Flashback (WSJ.com)
February 29, 2000 — The euro’s oft-cited “potential to appreciate” is becoming more of a joke than a mantra. The only thing appreciating Monday was sales volume, as “panic selling” sent Europe’s single currency to an all-time low.

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Hybrid cars are taking the world by storm - figuratively, literally. And here are just two of the latest hybrid cars that avid car fans and buyers are sure to love.

If you want an eco-friendly hybrid…

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You have heard about them, possibly have seen their commercials but do you really understand how the hybrid car works and what its value is?

Hybrid cars are becoming more and more popular to a va…

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Volkswagen is the latest car company to announce plans to introduce a vehicle that combines hybrid and diesel technologies. The company says that a diesel-hybrid Golf, to be offered in Europe as early as 2009, will achieve 70 miles to the gallon, and pass tough diesel emissions standards in Europe and California.

The VW diesel hybrid is expected to use a full hybrid drivetrain with a 2.0 liter engine, allowing it to travel in all-electric mode at low speeds.

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Mercedes-Benz will launch an S-Class hybrid equipped with a lithium-ion battery next year. Dr. Thomas Weber, who is responsible for research at Mercedes-Benz—and a long-time hybrid naysayer—said, “What we have here is a groundbreaking key technology that is going to be a decisive factor for the future success of the automotive industry.”

The use of lithium ion batteries—which can be smaller, lighter, store more energy, and deliver more power—is considered the holy grail of on-board energy storage for vehicles.

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BlueNext sees first phase two carbon trade (Reuters.com) — I keep meaning to find out more about this, as I remain interested in how our ability to convene markets can actually reduce pollution. I’ll get to it one of these days. In the meantime, here’s the latest, via a Reuters report (excerpt):

The first spot transaction of EU allowances for phase two of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme was conducted on BlueNext on Friday, the exchange said in a statement.

The trade was concluded at 21.10 euros per tonne for a total volume of 1,000 tonnes of carbon, it said.

The counter-parties of the trade were Electrabel and STX Services, the carbon rights exchange said. . . .

Exchange operators are eyeing a piece of the global carbon trading market as governments and industry step up efforts to reduce pollution.

Boston-based research firm Celent expects the carbon trading market to be worth more than 40 billion euros by 2012, up from 22 billion euros in 2006.

Hope you’re having a groovy Tuesday, downer market notwithstanding.

Financial Flashback (WSJ.com)
March 4, 1998 — Have stock investors gone crazy? Less than four months after October’s precipitous plunge in stock prices, culminating in the largest-ever point decline in the Dow on Oct. 27, stocks have rocketed to a string of records.

Hey, it’s also Knute Rockne’s birthday (1888-1931). The great football player and coach was famous for revolutionizing the game, and for talking about it. Some quotes from the official Rockne Web site (the best known is the first; my favorite is the last):

“Let’s win one for the Gipper.”

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”

“No star playing, just football.”

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.”

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.”

“Win or lose, do it fairly.”

“The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn’t, but there’s plenty of work.”

“I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”

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