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October 04, 2005

Stifel Financial to acquire

Stifel Financial to acquire Legg Mason division 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sep 12 12:52 PM
Stifel Financial Corp. will buy the capital markets division of Legg Mason Inc., in a complicated deal that will cost Stifel $7 million and an undetermined sum over three years.

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QuoteMedia Launches New Stock Quotes Service with Complete Coverage to U.S. and Canadian Cell Phones 
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Sep 12 3:00 AM
QuoteMedia, Inc. , a leading developer of financial applications and market data services, announced today the launch of the first stock quote text messaging service with complete coverage throughout the United States and Canada.

Cox seems to be seeking middle ground for SEC 
Investors.com - Sep 21 9:19 PM
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- After the regulation-on-steroids era, new Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox was supposed to be a return to the good old days of puny, wrist-slapping enforcement.

Weatherford stock continues to climb after insider sale 
BizJournals - Sep 04 9:30 PM
Bernard Duroc-Danner sold more than $19 million worth of his Weatherford International Ltd. shares in the first half of August, but those gross proceeds would have grown by an extra $1 million or so if he had waited until the end of the month, when the company's stock price barreled ahead.

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