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  • Jul
  • 31
  • 2006
  • 5:30 PM

Q&A: Phase III starts Oct. 6

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

That is, we now have a pilot underway in one stock (Lucent Technologies); the rollout across all stocks starts Oct. 6 and probably will last a few weeks.

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  • Jul
  • 28
  • 2006
  • 6:54 PM

Hybridvertising

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

DEEP LIQUIDITY? CHECK. ELECTRONIC TRADING? CHECK. MORE CHOICES IN TRADING? CHECKMATE.

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  • Jul
  • 28
  • 2006
  • 2:17 PM

Putting NYSE Hybrid in context

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

In a significantly changed competitive environment, the Hybrid Market is evidence of one thing, I think: we will continue to fight for your business -- every trade.

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  • Jul
  • 27
  • 2006
  • 6:59 PM

They'll bid in Hybrid

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

They read through the blog and were all agog...

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  • Jul
  • 27
  • 2006
  • 4:40 PM

Hybrid haiku

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

If anyone else is inspired to poetry by terms such as Liquidity Replenishment Points, your publisher is waiting. Just don't expect too much in the way of royalty checks.

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  • Jul
  • 27
  • 2006
  • 4:30 PM

NYSE Group's 2Q 2006 Results

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

NYSE Group, Inc. today reported net income of $61.2 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2006, compared to net income of $30.3 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and $13.0 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2005. Webcast follows today at 5 p.m. ET.

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  • Jul
  • 26
  • 2006
  • 5:05 PM

In the news: Sec. Paulson to visit, plus our 10th listing from India

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

We're rolling out the welcome for the new Treasury Secretary and for WNS, the latest addition to our list of Indian client companies.

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  • Jul
  • 26
  • 2006
  • 1:02 PM

Back on the grid

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Nice thing about blogging: users do free QA when we slip up!

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  • Jul
  • 25
  • 2006
  • 2:56 PM

Follow-up Q&A: d-Quotes

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

Reaching for his Secret Decoder Ring, the Hybrid Blogger unlocked the mystery of d-Quotes.

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  • Jul
  • 25
  • 2006
  • 10:52 AM

Q&A: Changes in sweeps, LRPs

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Changing some features in response to customer comments, but sticking by our commitment to offering customers a choice between high speed and high touch.

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  • Jul
  • 25
  • 2006
  • 6:10 AM

Big bored

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Questions, comments, observations, haiku -- whaddaya got?

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  • Jul
  • 24
  • 2006
  • 1:45 PM

Quote and sale or trade indicators

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

New and modified indicators will shed light on quotes and sales or trades in the Hybrid/NMS environment.

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  • Jul
  • 24
  • 2006
  • 10:37 AM

Keeping an eye on the SHO

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

From the press release: “As these cases demonstrate, firms that fail to enact effective procedures and systems by the compliance date threaten to undermine the important policies served by this rule.”

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  • Jul
  • 24
  • 2006
  • 5:58 AM

Corrected: specialists' 1Q earnings

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

From the press release: "The increased revenue and after-tax profit in the first quarter of 2006 results primarily from gains recorded in connection with the consummation of the merger between NYSE and Archipelago...in which the specialists exchanged their NYSE memberships for shares of NYSE Group, Inc. common stock and cash."

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  • Jul
  • 21
  • 2006
  • 11:20 AM

NYSE lists Barclays iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Between primary listings and trading on an unlisted-trading-privilege basis, year-to-date the NYSE Group trades 38% of all ETF shares traded in U.S. markets.

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  • Jul
  • 20
  • 2006
  • 6:09 AM

Earnings calls by the dozens

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Earnings and baseball seasons in full swing, so to speak.

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  • Jul
  • 19
  • 2006
  • 9:39 AM

NYSE Group acquires MatchPoint Trading

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: MatchPoint

From the press release: new crossing system provides trading-technology solutions for investors and market professionals; open architecture offers next-generation crossing opportunities.

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  • Jul
  • 19
  • 2006
  • 9:20 AM

NYSE Arca lists, trades new options with quarterly expirations

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

First five such options start today.

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  • Jul
  • 19
  • 2006
  • 6:55 AM

Earnings calls and home-run calls

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Twenty-six earnings calls crossing the ticker today. And the-uh-uh-uh Melk-man delivers.

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  • Jul
  • 18
  • 2006
  • 10:53 AM

Helix Energy our 16th energy listing of 2006, and a Nasdaq transfer to boot

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Based on market capitalization, 99% of the qualified domestic energy-related stocks are currently listed on NYSE. That's some pipeline!

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  • Jul
  • 18
  • 2006
  • 9:15 AM

A block-sized question

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Where does the NYSE Hybrid Market figure in the block business?

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  • Jul
  • 17
  • 2006
  • 9:25 AM

Q&A: Trading volume in Phase III pilot

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE

A reader follows up on statistics for the Hybrid Market Phase III pilot.

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  • Jul
  • 17
  • 2006
  • 8:11 AM

More transparency, greater speed drive market-data products

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

In our July newsletter, InfoTools, OpenBook Real-Time, ArcaBook and much more.

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  • Jul
  • 12
  • 2006
  • 8:55 PM

Our correspondent in Greece

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Another note from outside Thessaloniki, this one posted from along the Port Jervis express.

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  • Jul
  • 10
  • 2006
  • 6:36 PM

In the news, part 2: NYSE member firms' 1Q financial results

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

NYSE member firms' first-quarter profits and revenues increased from the year-ago levels.

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  • Jul
  • 07
  • 2006
  • 11:12 AM

News from the biz and reg sides

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

In the news, structured products have had a strong 2006 at the Big Board, and NYSE Regulation announces a $3.5 million fine for stock loan violations.

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  • Jul
  • 07
  • 2006
  • 8:59 AM

Monthly volume, Ol' Blue Eyes, 50 Cent

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Will be back to my valued correspondents next week, soon as my eyebrows grow back and that charred smell dissipates.

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  • Jul
  • 03
  • 2006
  • 6:04 AM

The original big deal

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

So Thomas Jefferson says to Alexander Hamilton, “Al, done and done.” Well, maybe those weren’t his exact words. But the two did make a deal that was central to America’s economic growth and development into the center of capitalism.

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  • Jul
  • 03
  • 2006
  • 6:00 AM

Circuit-breakers and trading collars, special HybridTalk edition

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

Why settle for plain old circuit-breaker and trading-collar numbers when you can have a version annotated with patented HybridTalk trivia?

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