NASD Calls for Soft Dollar Deal Limits
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The NASD on Wednesday submitted  recommendations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission  to limit the use of soft dollar deals and increase disclosure  about such practices.
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BERLIN  - The world's top finance officials stopped well short of expressing serious concern about the plunging U.S. dollar at a weekend meeting, although they issued a call for "steps toward greater exchange-rate flexibility" in Asia's emerging economies.
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World crude markets were softer Tuesday due to continuing profit-taking among traders holding long positions. The New York Mercantile Exchange November contract was 50-75 cents
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EU finance ministers have called on the United States to do more to halt the steep fall of the dollar against the euro and other currencies.
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The insatiable foreign demand for dollar holdings would eventually fall as investors diversify, US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday in remarks that landed hard on the dollar.
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U.S. stocks could face a challenge  next week to bounce back from Friday's post-Thanksgiving drop  unless there's some tempering of the dollar's weakness that  sparked the sell-off.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged China on Thursday to make its currency more flexible as a prelude to a freely floating exchange rate in the medium term.
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GENEVA, Jul 18 (IPS) - Several developing countries said Wednesday they  will oppose a steep down payment being demanded from them in  market access commitments for industrial goods as proposed in a  compromise draft text to revive the troubled Doha trade  negotiations.
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(InfoWorld) - The Nasdaq stock market has granted a request from Dell toÂ extend a deadline for filing late reportsÂ with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced. Dell now has until July 16 to file its past three quarterly earnings reports, called Form 10-Qs, and its annual report, Form 10-K, but the company will ask for more time as it continues an investigation into past accounting practices, said David Frink, a company spokesman. Nasdaq has warned that the company could face delisting for the delinquent reports. Asked what could happen if Nasdaq does not extend the deadline again, Frink said, "I'm not going to speculate on that." Dell has "every reason to believe" Nasdaq will review the request, and past precedence exists for an extension, he said. The SEC began an investigation into Dell's accounting practices last year, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has begun an investigation as well. Dell launched an internal audit and foundÂ evidence of misconduct and accounting errors. The company continues to comply with the SEC investigation, Frink said Thursday. The company is moving toward a conclusion of its internal investigation, he added. Nasdaq officials were not immediately available for comment on the Dell extension.
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The declining value of the U.S. dollar should allow PC vendors to offer bargains to people living in the euro zone, while U.S. consumers probably won&#39;t feel much of a pinch, according to a leading economist.
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Artificially boosting demand for initial public stock offerings and ramping up related commissions would be restricted under rules proposed yesterday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The London Stock Exchange has described a hostile takeover bid by US stock exchange operator Nasdaq as &quot;wholly inadequate&quot; and called on its shareholders to reject the offer worth 2.9 billion pounds (4.3 billion euros, 5.5 billion dollars).
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Short-term U.S. Treasury prices were  under pressure on Thursday on fears the Federal Reserve might  soon take a more aggressive stance against inflation.
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The Nasdaq stock market has granted a request from Dell toÂ extend a deadline for filing late reportsÂ with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced.
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Shares of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.  fell 5.2 percent on Tuesday to their lowest levels in over a month after the London Stock Exchange  urged shareholders to reject a 2.7 billion pound ($5.27 billion) hostile bid from the largest U.S. electronic stock market.
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The United States needs greater foreign  exchange flexibility from China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry  Paulson said on Tuesday as the dollar continued its slide  against most major currencies.
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Federal Reserve officials, who are debating whether to adopt an explicit target for inflation, have discussed whether an implicit, or "soft" target, might be preferable, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.