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US television networks ABC and CBS find broadcasting more beneficial than narrowcasting via cable channels when mass-marketing national brands. Operating profits doubled in the 1st qtr 1993. NBC, third in the audience ratings, announced that it was not for sale after two years of rumour. The US Federal Communications Commission ruled that only networks could establish entertainment programmes and would have the right to profit from production, syndication and the home-video market.
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The Clinton election may induce the end of criminal activities in finance. There is no imminent change in the laws on mergers and acquisitions and the tax code still favours debt financing. Wall Street criminals such as Mr Milken and Skadden Arps employees have been arrested. The Clinton administration is expected to strengthen the SEC's enforcement division, to insist on more detailed disclosure to investing public and safeguard poposed banking deregulation.
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The value of trading of the US National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Systems (Nasdaq) is twice that of ANASD's Automated Quotations system. It challenged the Dow and overtook the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the London International Stock Exchange in 1992. The financial futures markets look at Nasdaq's 100 instead of the Dow. Nasdaq's 4,000 issues comprise a majority of foreign companies and many maturing firms.
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