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To: Moominoid who wrote (14350)	2/3/2002 4:18:02 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes, i remember holding a few td.to when they took over Commonwealth, it was a big deal and the market liked it ... they don't offer direct access though, do they? ... this is very much a coming thing in the business, accounts for the majority of trades already i think ... do you know of any direct access operation in Australia at this point? ... SE Global has no broker alliance there, so far How enlightened of Aus to permit you to deal direct with US b/ds ... Canada doesn't do that, as citizens of the great white north we are classed with subjects of North Korea and Cuba and those who were under the taliban ... i kid you not, the securities regs in this country were clearly written by and/or for the ruling oligarchy ... in Hong Kong you can deal with whomever you like, none of the government's business [gee what a communist attitude eh] On US nationals appropriating the name of the continents all for themselves - actually other parts of the world did that for them in large part, the french with 'les americaines', the germans with 'Amerikanisher' [sp?] ... it was actually a german named Waldseemúller [sp?] who gave to the continents the name of Amerigo Vespucci who had never been there ..... but it's always been a pet peeve of anybody south of the Río Bravo, and more than a few north of the 49th parallel .... on the other hand, illogically, 'norteamericano' equates with 'estadounidense' and does not refer to canadians or mexicanos ... go figure ... i have an amusing story about being introduced at a meeting one time as a norteamericano and then somebody quickly correcting that wrong impression because i was resident in Canada, and this meeting was in México which is largely situated in North América -g- .... but no time to type it in ... cheahs myte