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NEW YORK, Feb 19- Cotton rose and the March-May contract spread widened to nine-month highs on Tuesday as speculators liquidating their long positions moved to the sidelines and as Chinese buyers returned following the new year.
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Those debacles include Nasdaq's botched handling of the Facebook initial public offering and Knight Capital's $440 million losses due to a software error. Walter's predecessor, Mary Schapiro, announced last year she was putting the rule-writing process on the fast track, shortly after Knight Capital nearly went bankrupt.
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*Google shares hit all-time high at $804. NEW YORK, Feb 19- Global stock markets rose on Tuesday, with U.S. stocks boosted by merger and acquisition activity, while a pick-up in German economic sentiment supported European stocks. Boosting the U.S. market, Google shares rose more than 1 percent to an all-time high of $804.00.
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*Office Depot, OfficeMax in merger talks- source. Office Depot Inc surged 21.6 percent to $5.58 after a person familiar with the matter said the No. 2 U.S. office supply retailer is in advanced talks to merge with smaller rival OfficeMax Inc. A deal could come as early as this week.
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*Office Depot, OfficeMax in merger talks- source. NEW YORK, Feb 19- U.S. stocks were poised to open modestly higher on Tuesday after the long holiday weekend, putting the S&P 500 on track to extend its seven-week winning streak on increased M&A activity and before housing market data.
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NEW YORK, Feb 15- Cotton rose on Friday as key technical support levels and this week's strong U.S. export data buoyed prices, though the fiber still posted a second straight weekly loss as a recent bull run lost momentum. The most-active May cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. rose 0.4 cent, or 0.5 percent, to settle at 83.19 cents per pound.
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*Cotton jumps 1.6 percent following USDA report. *USDA says more than half world carryover in China. The USDA increased its forecast for global cotton stocks for the 2012/ 13 season which ends on July 31, but the increase was due to a 2 million bale rise in China where the government is hoarding a staggering 42.61 million 480- lb bales, or 52 percent of the carryover.
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NEW YORK, Feb 6- U.S. cotton futures rose in late trading on Wednesday, reversing earlier losses as mills jumped in to buy fiber after prices hit a perceived floor. The most-active March cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. settled up 0.21 cent, or 0.3 percent, at 81.72 cents per pound.
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Knight Capital Group, which recently agreed to be bought for $1.4 billion by Getco Holding Co, will lay off 5 percent of its global workforce as part of efforts to restructure the automated trading firm, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday.
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*Knight expects Q1 pretax charge between $9 mln and $11 mln. Feb 4- Knight Capital Group, which recently agreed to be bought for $1.4 billion by Getco Holding Co, will lay off 5 percent of its global workforce as part of efforts to restructure the automated trading firm, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday.
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Tomorrow the SEC will hold a hearing on whether they should let some stocks trade in increments of other than a penny.
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NEW YORK, Feb 4- Major stock markets fell on Monday as investors booked profits on recent strong gains, while the euro slipped from multi-month highs against the dollar and yen on political uncertainty in Spain and Italy.
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*Oracle to buy Acme Packet for $1.9 billion. NEW YORK, Feb 4- U.S. stocks fell on Monday after a disappointing report on factory orders, retreating from gains in the prior session that left the S&P 500 at a five-year high and the Dow above 14,000..
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NEW YORK, Feb 4- Major stock markets fell on Monday as investors booked profits on recent strong gains, while the euro slipped from multi-month highs against the dollar and yen on political uncertainty in Spain and Italy.
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*Oracle to buy Acme Packet for $1.9 billion. NEW YORK, Feb 4- U.S. stocks were set for a lower open on Monday before a report on December factory orders, and the major indexes were poised for a pullback after the S&P 500 hit a five-year high and the Dow rose above 14,000 last week.
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*Cotton slides on low U.S. export data, China cancellations. NEW YORK, Jan 31- Cotton futures slid on Thursday after U.S. government sales data revealed cancellations in orders from China, as a 10.5 percent rise in prices for the month of January discouraged buyers in the world's largest textile market.
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*SEC to decide by March 29, instead of Jan. 28. NEW YORK, Jan 24- U.S. securities regulators will delay, by another two months, a ruling on Nasdaq OMX Group's $62- million plan to compensate firms that suffered losses during Facebook's botched initial public offering in May.
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*Google and IBM both rally after reporting results. NEW YORK, Jan 23- The Dow and Nasdaq advanced on Wednesday, lifted by IBM and Google whose stronger-than-expected profits helped to alleviate growing investor concern about the tech sector.
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*SEC still working on risk control rules to target errors. Elisse Walter, who took over the agency in December, said a forthcoming cross-border swaps proposal is "a critical linchpin" as the SEC finalizes derivatives rules required under the 2010 Dodd-Frank law enacting Wall Street reforms.
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NEW YORK, Jan 15- U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday on continued selling of tech heavyweight Apple and concerns over the brewing fight in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling. Apple fell for the third day in a row as the biggest drag on both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 after reports on Monday of cuts to orders for iPhone parts.