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...range and scope of electronic trading increases, so may the regulatory headaches. Says Gary Lynch, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief: "The internationalization of the markets is a huge potential problem unless regulators are prepared to cooperate." Since May, the SEC and U.S. commodity-exchange regulators have signed memorandums of understanding with Japan and Britain, agreeing to share information in trading-fraud cases...
...heads is getting smaller," says Field. "The negative ads are the ones that stick." The forum for most of the mudslinging is television. In big statewide races, staging rallies and pressing the flesh in traditional "retail campaigns" are becoming dying arts; saturating the airwaves with pungent, simplistic 30-sec. "hit ads" is considered more efficient and effective...
...happened a week before the stock exchanges' now notorious "triple-witching hour," the quarterly expiration deadline for stock options, stock-index futures and stock-index options. In the past, massive computer-triggered "program trading" has pushed the market up or down steeply when the witching hour struck. Now the SEC has decided to look into such selling waves whenever they occur. Whether anything can then be done about the phenomenon is unclear. As if to emphasize this point, the Dow slumped almost 35 points in a single day last week, before closing Friday at 1769.69, 7 points higher than...
...film called Luxo Jr. goes even further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
This season's most promising performer is a spotted tan gilt named Huckleberry Hog, who has a good shot at breaking the record: 4.48 sec. on the flat, held by a gilt named American Made. But even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold's hog hall of fame, poor Huck's fate is already sealed. After a brief breeding reprieve -- to produce not racers but simply high-quality piglets -- she gets a one-way ticket to the abattoir, along with all this year's other stars. Says Holding, who plans to retire from...