[BabyPeanut]

Key Energy Nearly De-listed from NYSE History
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n less than 10 years, Key Energy Services was transformed from a company with fewer than 50 working rigs into the largest land-based well services company in the country. The management team assembled the largest fleet of oilfield service vehicles in the United States. Rounding out the plan to be a total service provider was the company's acquisition of Q Services, Inc. in Jul 2002, which gave the Company a Pressure Pumping division and strengthened its position in the Fishing and Rental Services market.

[Euric]

Big foreign companies delisting themselves from NYSE USA Today

Big foreign companies, mostly from Europe, are saying non, nein and nee to being listed on U.S. exchanges.
A surge of foreign companies, including Bayer, British Airways, BASF, Ducati and Royal Ahold, are bidding adieu to U.S. markets and their American depositary receipts.
Having a ticker symbol on U.S. exchanges used to carry cachet for foreign companies. But lackluster trading in many foreign listings and a feeling the costs of having a stock listed in the USA aren't worthwhile is sparking an exodus.
Already this year, 34 foreign companies have delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, and nine more have announced they plan to do so, says the exchange. That tops the 21 foreign companies that have joined the NYSE this year. Another 20 have said this year they plan to leave the Nasdaq or have done so already.
"There are companies lining up to exit U.S. capital markets," says James Angel, professor of finance at Georgetown University.

Others:
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CHEMICALS: BASF to leave NYSE
German chemicals group BASF hopes to save $6.85 million a year by delisting from the New York Stock Exchange to focus share trading on Frankfurt, London and Zurich from the beginning of September, the Financial Times reported on its Web site in August.

The firm joins a steady stream of foreign companies abandoning U.S. listings.

[MrBill]

You can thank the financial burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, The Patriot Act and the long arm of over zealous tort lawyers as well as public prosecutors like Eliot Spitzer for the exodus of foreign companies from US public listings as well as the trend towards private equity.

US law makers are right now trying to pass absurd laws to punish foreign companies that do business in or with Iran. They have no concept of regulatory or legal over-reach. They should concentrate on getting their own financial house in order instead of trying to interfer in others business.

This just makes America a less attractive place to do business or to invest. That in turn exacerbates global financial imbalances. It is a wholly self-inflicted wound.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'Y')ou can thank the financial burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, The Patriot Act and the long arm of over zealous tort lawyers as well as public prosecutors like Eliot Spitzer

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'Y')ou can thank the financial burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, The Patriot Act and the long arm of over zealous tort lawyers as well as public prosecutors like Eliot Spitzer for the exodus of foreign companies from US public listings as well as the trend towards private equity.
US law makers are right now trying to pass absurd laws to punish foreign companies that do business in or with Iran. They have no concept of regulatory or legal over-reach. They should concentrate on getting their own financial house in order instead of trying to interfer in others business.
This just makes America a less attractive place to do business or to invest. That in turn exacerbates global financial imbalances. It is a wholly self-inflicted wound.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'Y')ou can thank the financial burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, The Patriot Act and the long arm of over zealous tort lawyers as well as public prosecutors like Eliot Spitzer for the exodus of foreign companies from US public listings as well as the trend towards private equity.

US law makers are right now trying to pass absurd laws to punish foreign companies that do business in or with Iran. They have no concept of regulatory or legal over-reach. They should concentrate on getting their own financial house in order instead of trying to interfer in others business.

This just makes America a less attractive place to do business or to invest. That in turn exacerbates global financial imbalances. It is a wholly self-inflicted wound.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ferrelgiraffe', 'J')ust before ceasar augustus took power, the people hung all the senators and killed all the lawyers in Rome. They had an uprecidented 80 years of peace and enourmous growth after that.

[Euric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'Y')ou can thank the financial burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, The Patriot Act and the long arm of over zealous tort lawyers as well as public prosecutors like Eliot Spitzer for the exodus of foreign companies from US public listings as well as the trend towards private equity.
US law makers are right now trying to pass absurd laws to punish foreign companies that do business in or with Iran. They have no concept of regulatory or legal over-reach. They should concentrate on getting their own financial house in order instead of trying to interfer in others business.
This just makes America a less attractive place to do business or to invest. That in turn exacerbates global financial imbalances. It is a wholly self-inflicted wound.

[Euric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'U')S law makers are right now trying to pass absurd laws to punish foreign companies that do business in or with Iran.

[frankthetank]

Big foreign companies can lick my ass. Sorry, but its true.

[roccman]

The pigmen want to make as much money as is possible during the crash of the stock market. Fuckers!!

[greenworm]

I was thinking about this yesterday when I watched CFC take off to the moon, after lunch time it was obvious that the stock sales were computer generated, i.e. went into a little buy,buy,buy algorithm. The whole thing is a mirage. Pretty funny to watch.

[Plantagenet]

The market needs more curbs on panic selling, not less.

[evilgenius]

Do you think the curbs come back the day after we test a thousand on the downside?

[peaker_2005]

IMHO this is the surest sign they're preparing to crash the system yet. Either that or they're amazingly stupid.

[Tyler_JC]

Did anyone actually read the article?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The curbs applied only to some index arbitrage trades on stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index executed at the Big Board. Brokerages weren't barred from turning to rival exchanges to complete those trades.
Increased electronic trading has also made arbitrage strategies a smaller piece of daily equity trading, the NYSE said in the filing. Index arbitrage strategies accounted for about 4.6 percent of the total shares bought or sold at the NYSE, according to data on its Web site.

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'D')id anyone actually read the article?$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The curbs applied only to some index arbitrage trades on stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index executed at the Big Board. Brokerages weren't barred from turning to rival exchanges to complete those trades.
Increased electronic trading has also made arbitrage strategies a smaller piece of daily equity trading, the NYSE said in the filing. Index arbitrage strategies accounted for about 4.6 percent of the total shares bought or sold at the NYSE, according to data on its Web site.

[Novus]

I think a massive stock crash is being engineered by the powers that be. The rich bankers and controllers of the world want to wipe out the middle class in one hour and jet off to Dubai or some other rich playground before the sheeple realize their 401k's and IRA's and everything else they have worked their entire lives for has been wiped out.

[idomar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I') think a massive stock crash is being engineered by the powers that be. The rich bankers and controllers of the world want to wipe out the middle class in one hour and jet off to Dubai or some other rich playground before the sheeple realize their 401k's and IRA's and everything else they have worked their entire lives for has been wiped out.