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Equity exchanges are excitable. There's a new adventure every week, whether it's NYSE (NYSE: NYX) bidding for Euronext or Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) chewing on a chunk of the London Stock Exchange. Bond life is a lot less exciting. But as equity markets stutter, a big opportunity appears for boutique bond exchange MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX). Can it grow beyond a boutique, and become The Archipelago of Bonds? Bonds as an asset class are back. Interest rates are rising, and there's more value in taking corporate credit risk, as credit spreads -- the difference between corporate bonds and risk-free U.S. Treasuries -- rise. The U.S. bond markets are huge -- a total of $25 trillion outstanding, compared to a total value of $14 trillion for all the stocks in the Russell 3000. The corporate bond market alone is worth around $5 trillion.
Scion Allows Consumers to 'Redefine' its Brand in Virtual World There ...
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Makena Technologies, creator of the popular social virtual world There.com, today announced that Scion plans to continue and expand on its successful campaign in There.com, with a unique focus on user-generated content. Scion already runs a popular venue in There.com called Club Scion, a large-scale nightclub setting built inside each of the Scion xD, xB and tC models where members socialize, party and can interact with Scion content and explore the car interiors. To continue its successful marketing effort in There.com, Scion is allowing members to create their own graphic designs to adorn the outside of Club Scion. Members will create their designs and submit them to There.com where they will be featured as the "new look" for the exterior of the club.
Sony, Skype calling gamers
The consumer electronics industry has for many years now tried to shoe-horn a game (some would say game-like) experience on the mobile phone device, but this year, Sony swims upstream in the same waters. It has taken the PSP handheld game platform and turned it into a mobile phone -- albeit with limitations. But the value proposition for consumers is win-win. .
AllAboardToys.com Announces Best Toys for 2007
DENVER, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Popular character toys from such favorites as High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Thomas the Tank Engine(TM) top AllAboardToys.com's, (http://www.allaboardtoys.com), list of Best Toys for 2007. AllAboardToys.com, a leading online toy retailer of educational and family-friendly products, chose 2007's Best Toys based upon a number of different criteria, including safety, quality, durability, and ability to foster creative, imaginative and developmentally appropriate constructive play. The AllAboardToys.com Best Toys of 2007 may be viewed at http://www.allaboardtoys.com/besttoys2007.asp and include: Consumers can also enter to win a $1,000 online shopping spree from AllAboardToys.com. To enter the Shopping Spree contest, consumers must complete the entry form at http://www.allaboardtoys.com/spree by December 16th.
Short skirts and fast cars will have to wait, says Jankovic
When you have pain in your back, the worst thing is to have heels on and put on a short dress," the third-ranked Jankovic said when asked if she'd take another ride in an Italian sports car before she leaves Melbourne. "Because I can't bend down, I can't do anything." Jankovic twice sought medical treatment in the second set of her 6-3, 6-1 semifinal loss to Maria Sharapova, laying outstretched on a towel while a physiotherapist massaged her lower back. "I felt really some strange pain in my back where I felt like I was so stuck," she said. "I wanted to withdraw, but it was a semifinal." The Serb also regrets her promise to join American Bethanie Mattek in the doubles competition, where they lost in the third round. "I shouldn't even have played doubles, but Bethanie asked me to play when I was in my off season," she said.
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