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...billion?far less than half of Microsoft's current market cap of $295 billion?the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is dominated by small investors who spook as easily as a school of herring, causing volatile price fluctuations. During a roaring market last year (the Thai market's 116% gain in 2003 was tops among the world's exchanges), regulators tried to put the brakes on rampant speculation by tightening day-trading rules...
...McGreevey's commerce secretary, chief of staff and state police director have all departed under various conflict-of-interest charges. And Kushner was recently charged in a bizarre sex scandal; he allegedly sent his sister a tape of her husband having sex with a prostitute in an effort to gain leverage over his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in an investigation of Kushner's finances. Finally, McGreevey was caught on an FBI tape using the word "Machiavelli." Prosecutors said it was a code word to trigger a bribery scheme, but the Governor said it was merely a literary allusion...
Some traditional bookmakers charge that Betfair's practice of allowing bets on losers as well as winners might facilitate corruption by encouraging competitors to throw events for financial gain. Says Graham Sharpe, spokesman for old-style bookie William Hill: "If you have a bet on an exchange, you don't know who it's with. If [the person] is offering extravagant odds, you don't know why." Black counters that his site makes strange betting patterns easier to identify. He points out that Betfair has signed agreements with, among others, the Jockey Club in Britain and the English Football Association...
...during the long bull run of the 1990s, "market timers"--who try to catch a stock's highs and lows as it trades in a narrow range--are sprouting again. So are "market neutral" investors, who through options and other techniques try to hedge away any market movement but gain from temporary stock-price discrepancies...
...type who likes to take charge and shoot for gains in a directionless market, pairs trading on your own may be for you. Weiss, whose firm searches for stock pairs that have diverged, says there are hundreds of pairs a day that present opportunity. To keep it simple, he says, stick with pairs of big stocks in the same industry and pairs with similar long-term trading histories. Put them on your screen and wait for them to get out of whack--either when they go in opposite directions or when one severely lags the other for at least three...