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Shares of online broker E-Trade Financial Corp. rise more than 4% at the start of Friday’s session, amidst heavy talk of a possible takeover bid by TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp.

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G10 Advancers and Decliners vs USD JPY 0.05 EUR -0.44 CHF -0.53 GBP -0.86

There have been very few newsworthy events in today’s session, and even the handful of scheduled speakers lined up had very little effect on FX markets. The only driver therefore has been the performance of global equity markets; and with both European and US indices in negative territory, the USD has been able to make gains across the board. The hardest hit has been GBP which has tumbled over…

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  Global Investor Services, Inc., (OTCBB:GISV:$.05), a company which is one of ten companies in the Online Financial Sector which I am currently recommending and holding announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent with Questrade, which is Canada’s fastest growing online broker according to Investor Economics.  Questrade is the first Canadian broker to allow [...]

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Elizabeth Harrow takes a look at news on the Street before the market opens.

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