In 1990, stock broker Ross H. Mandell was discharged by a Wall Street brokerage firm after customers’ complaints of unauthorized trading, securities records show. In 1995 the New York Stock Exchange suspended him for six weeks, saying he mishandled customer accounts.


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Wall Street is “losing its leading competitive position” compared to financial centers in other countries, and the federal government must take steps to curb lawsuits and overhaul market regulations to improve New York’s standing, a report to be released today by a blue-ribbon committee of business leaders and academics says. The report from the bipartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation


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HLShas informed IDS that today was the beginning of a long-term, multi-mediacampaign featuring the world’s 1st Vista™ compatible biometric encryptionflash drives and computer mouse. The campaign began today with the WallStreet Journal in their Southeast and Northwest Regions, one day beforeMicrosoft™ releases its new Vista™ operating system to government andbusiness customers, HLS and its


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IDS Worldwide, Inc. — HLS has informed IDS that today was the beginning of a long-term, multi-media campaign featuring the world’s 1st Vista™ compatible biometric encryption flash drives and computer mouse.


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Nestle SA, the world’s largest foodmaker, may buy Fremont baby-food company Gerber Products from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for as much as $5 billion, according to a published report.


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Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Brazil for the first time will invest more overseas than the amount ploughed into the country by foreign investors, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the Brazilian Central Bank.


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The Wall Street Journal has a predictably tendentious editorial in today’s paper that vilifies Joseph P. Kennedy II for the deal he’s “cooked up” with Hugo Chavez. The deal is a sequel to last year’s PR stunt which had Hugo offering low-cost home heating oil to those stuck on a stratra where the recently demised Mr. Friedman’s trickle-down benefits haven’t yet permeated: the poor. The


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Heidi Hines of RE/MAX Executive Realty named one of America’s top real estate teams, now a member of “The Real Estate Top 200,” a new national awards ranking


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Abbi Adest submits: Excerpt from our Wall Street Breakfast, a one-page summary of this morning’s key market-moving and stock-moving stories: YouTube’s Web Videos to Go Mobile [Wall Street Journal ] Summary: Verizon Wireless has signed a deal with Google’s YouTube website in which the wireless carrier will offer select YouTube content to 57 million Verizon customers.


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