Wall Street to get single watchdog in merger
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A single cop will police all brokerage firms in the United States starting in mid-2007 under a merger unveiled on Tuesday between overlapping regulators, saving Wall Street tens of millions of dollars a year.
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Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for approximately $519 million, the companies said today.
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The Tokyo and London stock exchanges are set to sign a business alliance on Friday as part of a global race for consolidation among the world's top bourses, informed sources said Thursday.
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The Wall Street Journal, whose parent Dow Jones & Co. is the target of a $5 billion takeover offer by News Corp., is set to shake up its newsroom by reassigning and replacing several top editors, the New York Times reported in its online edition.
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A deeply divided Securities and Exchange Commission is expected on Tuesday to approve rules requiring all but the smallest hedge funds to register with the SEC and make their records available for examination.
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NYSE Group Inc. and the NASD agreed to form a single regulator for the securities industry, ending a turf war to cut compliance costs for Wall Street firms and better police ever-more complex financial markets.
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A tentative deal over editorial  independence at The Wall Street Journal would give Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. the sole power to hire and fire the  newspaper&#39;s top editors if it succeeds in buying Dow Jones &  Co. Inc., The New York Times said on Thursday.
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GLG Partners will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion merger with an investment company, according to people briefed on the transaction.
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The New York Stock Exchange and NASD announced plans to merge their regulatory organizations and eliminate duplicative and inconsistent rules.
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News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. have "basically agreed" to a structure to protect the editorial independence of the company's news operations, including the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Newswires, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Another global giant is pulling its NYSE listing. Should we care?
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Rupert Murdoch is expected to turn on the charm Monday to reassure the family that controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  that his $5 billion offer for the company won't undermine its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
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The Wall Street Journal, whose parent Dow Jones & Co. is the target of a $5 billion takeover offer by News Corp., is set to shake up its newsroom by reassigning and replacing several top editors, the New York Times reported on its Web site.
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News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  have &quot;basically agreed&quot; to a structure to protect the editorial  independence of the company&#39;s news operations, including the  Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Newswires, a source  familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N)  and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  have &quot;basically agreed&quot; on  safeguards to the editorial independence of Dow Jones&#39; news  operations, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday,  setting the stage for Dow Jones to accept a $5 billion buyout  offer.
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The New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced a partnership yesterday to work together on developing trading technology and financial products in what could be the first step toward a merger of the world's two biggest equities markets.
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A tentative deal between News Corp.  and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  would give an independent board the power to approve the hiring and firing of top editors at The Wall Street Journal selected by News Corp., three sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.