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NY Fed mulls sale of $7 bln of AIG bonds-Bloomberg

Jody Shenn and Caroline Salas Gage Bloomberg.com 01/12/2012

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may sell a block of the mortgage bonds it assumed from American International Group Inc. (AIG) after being approached by a potential buyer, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Deutsche Boerse's NYSE deal seen heading for the rocks Edward Taylor and Andreas Kroener Reuters 01/10/2012	Kodak May Be Booted Off the New York Stock Exchange George Stahl The Wall Street Journal 01/03/2012
Deutsche Boerse AG's last-ditch lobbying efforts in support of its proposed takeover of NYSE Euronext look set to fail, leaving the deal heading for the rocks with European antitrust regulators expected to block the deal	The hits keep on coming for Eastman Kodak, which received a notice of possible delisting from the NYSE because the average closing price of the company’s common stock was less than $1 over a period of 30 straight trading days.
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Most stock funds post losses this year; bonds gain John Waggoner USA Today 12/18/2011	Anonymous hacker group pledges cyberattack on New York Stock Exchange Michael Riley and Nina Mehta The Washington Post 10/05/2011
The average diversified U.S. stock mutual fund has fallen 5.9% this year, vs. a 1.4% loss for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, says Lipper, which tracks the funds. Out of 8,036 funds, 7,399, or 92%, are showing a loss — and some are doozies.	Anonymous, a group of self-styled hacker-activists behind attacks on corporate and government websites, vowed to support the Occupy Wall Street protests by erasing the New York Stock Exchange “from the Internet” on Oct. 10.
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Swiss Ponder Battle Over Runaway Franc Bloomberg.com 08/15/2011	Vote looms on New York Stock Exchange's future Jacob Bunge The Australian 07/05/2011
Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency.	NYSE Euronext shareholders are lined up to approve a planned merger with Deutsche Boerse that would end 219 years of independence, though concerns linger about how regulators might dilute the claimed benefits of creating the world's largest venue for trading stocks and derivatives.
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First ever Palestinian bonds sold BBC News 05/11/2011	IMF calls for dollar alternative CNN 02/11/2011
An investment firm has sold the first ever bonds from a Palestinian borrower.	The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency. The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global financial system.
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