News Digest of November 15, 2006

There are 6 items… Investment banks finalise plans for rival European stock exchange | Deutsche Boerse May Drop Takeover Bid for Euronext, People Say | New Challenges in Investor Relations | Case of the Missing Analysts: Solved? | ‘Daily Show’ for stocks completes first month | IBM’s Palmisano Gets A Second Life

Investment banks finalise plans for rival European stock exchange
Between them, the seven investment banks account for about 50% of all trading in shares in Europe’s leading companies. If they moved their own business to the new platform, it could sap liquidity from the LSE and other exchanges, and drive more business to their new market.

Deutsche Boerse May Drop Takeover Bid for Euronext, People Say
Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe’s largest stock exchange, may withdraw its bid for Euronext NV five months after its smaller rival agreed to a takeover offer by NYSE Group Inc., three people with knowledge of the matter said.Deutsche Boerse May Drop Takeover Bid for Euronext, People Say

New Challenges in Investor Relations
Three IROs and three analysts talk about IR in this wide-ranging feature by Cantos and Real IR magazine

Case of the Missing Analysts: Solved?
But Thomson Financial, which owns I/B/E/S, disputed the paper’s findings, arguing that the analysts’ names were not actually missing, they were just a little harder to find. Now, the paper’s authors, who include an associate finance professor from New York University, have agreed to withdraw the current version of the paper.

‘Daily Show’ for stocks completes first month
Investing “is boring stuff for most people,” the hedge fund manager said in an interview. “You can pretty much say in 10 minutes how people should manage their money, everything else is repetitive.” But, marrying stocks with humor, as Lindzon’s team at Wallstrip.com does, well, “That’s different.”

IBM’s Palmisano Gets A Second Life
“I have my own avatar,” boasts Palmisano.

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