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Chris Dodd may be going it alone on financial reform, but some people are already smelling something in the air and making for the exits. Goldman Sachs's (GS) director of its largest hedge fund, Peirre-Henri Flamand, is leaving the bank to start a new fund on his own, Goldman confirmed to Dow Jones ... - read more at Barron's Online - Stocks to watch today

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday he isn't in favor of a weak euro, but that the European currency is still overvalued against the dollar. "I'm not for a weak euro," ... - read more at Japan Herald

BOCA RATON, Fla. (Dow Jones)-The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is drafting a proposal around co-location services which allow traders to place their computers in the same building as the ... - read more at Japan Herald

As the corporate bond market revives, device maker Medtronic is out with a three-part $3 billion deal. While shares of the company slipped around 10AM, fixed-income investors bid up the bonds. The bonds priced “at the tight end of guidance,” Dow Jones Newswires was told. Medtronic shares ... - read more at Barron's Online

I know I owe everyone a follow up to my post from last week titled The Proliferation of Standardized Seed Financing Documents.  To the many of you out there that emailed me in response, thanks for all of the thought, ideas, suggestions, and offers of help.  More on that soon. In the mean time, ... - read more at Brad Feld's Blog

• Group says levy would cause Dow Jones to plunge• Study claims seven out of 10 people oppose ideaAmerica's leading business advocacy group, the US chamber of commerce, has slammed proposals for a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions by claiming that a levy would cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average ... - read more at Guardian.co.uk - Business

(Updates throughout with background, detail) Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BOCA RATON, Fla. -(Dow Jones)- The Chicago Board Options Exchange on Thursday moved ahead with plans for a long-delayed initial pub... - read more at Japan Herald

New York -- Equity markets in New York slipped early Thursday, despite a Department of Commerce report that the U.S. trade gap shrank in January. dow joens.jpg The trade gap fell 6.6 percent to $37.3 billion, despite a prediction it would rise to $40.8 billion. In midmorning trading, the Dow Jones industrial ... - read more at The Money Times

(Adds details.) LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The European steel industry Thursday warned that the hefty price increases mining companies are seeking for iron ore could slow the region's economic recovery or ... - read more at Japan Herald

It had to happen that after three days of Citigroup (C) stock mania, some news came to the fore, along with further rumor innuendo and speculation. Let's start with fact: Citi sold $2 billion of “trust preferred securities,” or TRUPs, yesterday, yielding 8.5%, a lower rate than expected ... - read more at Barron's Online - Stocks to watch today