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Registered Rep. December 28, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Ryan Beck Ryan Beck & Co. of Florham Park, N.J., may be acquired by St. Louis-based regional brokerage Stifel Nicolaus.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2006 Emil Lee	Rounding the Second Curve: Part 2 An interview with hedge-fund manager and Second Curve Capital founder Tom Brown about how he has developed his contrarian view, how he looks at the unlocked earnings potential in CompuCredit, and how he has thought through the different angles of his investments.
Registered Rep. December 22, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Spitzer Wants More Settlement Dollars for New York UBS Reps New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer is asking a Northern California court to disapprove the settlement terms of an overtime suit against UBS.
Registered Rep. December 21, 2006 Kevin Burke	In a Competitive Recruiting Climate, Merrill Sweetens FA Benefits Merrill Lynch has launched a new benefit program for its army of 15,700 brokers that will provide financial assistance to their families in the event of their death.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Michael Leibert	Fool on the Street: Putting the Group in Citigroup Many investors believe that Citigroup is just too big to generate a superior rate of sustainable growth, and a growing chorus is calling for the separation of Citigroup's retail banking, investment banking, and brokerage operations.
OCC Bulletin December 20, 2006	Revisions to 12 CFR 215 The Federal Reserve System has published amendments to 12 CFR 215 (Regulation O) in the Federal Register, removing certain reporting requirements regarding extensions of credit to bank insiders.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Morgan Stanley Re-Discovers Itself The fully recovered financial-services firm no longer needs Discover. Investors, both firms will be worth keeping an eye on as key players in their respective industries.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Emil Lee	Rounding the Second Curve An interview with the hedge fund Second Curve Capital's virtuoso Tom Brown on the fund's methodologies and some of the companies in which the fund is interested.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Buz Livingston	Naughty: The ETF Industry Too much of a good thing is not always good. Close to 400 ETFs are available, and more are in the pipeline for 2007. The industry should follow Vanguard's lead and offer a limited number of low-cost ETFs.
BusinessWeek December 25, 2006 Mara Der Hovanesian	The "Foreclosure Factories" Vise The predatory tactics of some mortgage servicers are squeezing homeowners.
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