It was one of the first to offer trading beyond the traditional hours of Wall Street, a recognition of the growing global nature of the markets.
But after over five hours of wall-to-wall Europa League action, I'm too tired to think right now.
Whatever you choose to call it, the league and NBC, one of its television partners (ESPN and Univision are the others), will provide 10 hours of wall-to-wall soccer coverage that will begin in Harrison, N.J., with the East Coast rivalry game between visiting D.C. United and the Red Bulls, scheduled to kick off a little after 12 30 p.m. (all times Eastern).
Consequently, it is possible to run InterProScan 5 with tens of thousands of worker JVMs being controlled by a single Master JVM, allowing the analysis of entire genomes in just hours of wall-clock time.
After dipping in the first half hour of trading Wall Street got a lift from a report that February's wholesale inventories came in ahead of expectations, rising 0.6% on the heels of a 0.2% dip in January.
Within forty-eight hours, ten of Wall Street's biggest banks had agreed to the regulators' terms, which included a series of reforms designed to insure the independence of research analysts, a ban on issuing I.P.O. stocks to corporate executives, and fines totalling $1.4 billion.
"It's amateur hour on Wall Street.
The networks' electoral maps were flashing in three colors all through the early hours of their wall-to-wall election coverage, and it was that dramatic third color -- for states that remained too close to call -- that was getting all the famous faces at the election desks all worked up.
He is currently working on a new book, How to Earn $900,000 an Hour: The Rise of Wall Street Billionaires and the New Class War, (hopefully to be published in 2011).
The latest round of news media accounts on the tumultuous final hours of the wall have emphasized not some sense of historical inevitability driven by economics and geopolitics, but rather the capricious human side of the event.
