The suggestion came in a meeting Mr. Reed and two senior exchange officials had yesterday with top executives of the specialist firms.
The Bulletin Board Transition template looks at bulletin board stocks that have announced they will go to a senior exchange such as Nasdaq Small Cap.
We sell right before the transition, because when that happens, there are always a lot of guys out there shorting the stock on the senior exchange.
ANZ senior foreign exchange manager Sam Tuck said China's December retails sales and industrial production numbers would also be released.
"I never see anyone buying the euro because they are excited by the prospects for euro growth," said Lara Rhame, senior foreign exchange economist at Brown Brothers Harriman.
"The numbers show that the U.S. economy is doing very well," said Peter Frank, senior foreign exchange strategist at ABN Amro, "and inflationary pressures are slowly building".
Actually, Zack confesses, he just needs the photo so that he can trade it to a high-school senior in exchange for booze.
"The Fed is expected to raise late this year, and then move more quickly," said Antje Praefcke, a senior foreign exchange strategist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, who predicts the euro will fall to $1.20 by the end of the year.
Daniel Hui, a senior foreign exchange strategist at HSBC, said in a research note that the recent movement in the daily fixing of the renminbi "indicates something has changed — the question is why, and if it will last".
Jeremy P. Fand, senior foreign exchange strategist at Fleet Global Markets in Boston, said that before yesterday "people still had hope that confidence in the United States would come off some with the volatility in the American stock market".
Referring to the dollar's move against the euro, Jeremy P. Fand, senior foreign exchange strategist at Fleet Global Markets, said, "It was unbelievably big but should not be perceived as something that will repeat itself anytime soon".
