The Invest Tracker

Include the built environment in an Emissions Trading Scheme and provide incentives for building owners and developers to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Shares in UK retailers plummeted yesterday on mounting fears of weak festive trading, as the wider London stock market tumbled on increasing worries over economic growth prospects triggered by ongoing troubles in the US.

The securities of Western Plains Resources will be placed in pre-open at the request of the company until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading on Thursday, 20 December 2007 or when the announcement is released to the market.

WASHINGTON - Deficiencies in its computer system hamper the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s efforts to ferret out insider trading and other securities-law violations, congressional auditors found in a report issued Monday.

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks trading in the U.S. had the biggest decline in more than three weeks as commodity shares including BHP Billiton slipped along with copper and oil prices.

Vancouver, BC, December 17, 2007–(T-Net)–Absolute Software (TSX: ABT), a leading provider of Firmware-based, patented Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking announced today that its shareholders have approved a two-for-one subdivision of its outstanding common shares, to be effective as of the close of business on January 4, 2008 (the “Split Record Date”).

CHICAGO and LONDON , Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Townsend Analytics ( www.taltrade.com ), a leading provider of multi-broker, multi-asset, multi- region and multi-route electronic trading solutions for the global capital markets, has integrated equity algorithms from leading European broker Cheuvreux into Townsend’s flagship Execution Management System (EMS), RealTick(R).

Mail and document-management company Pitney Bowes Inc. said Monday that it recently purchased Encom Holdings Pty Ltd. and the software distribution unit of Acxiom France.

NetSuite Inc., one of the pioneers in the rapidly growing business of selling software as a Web-based service, is expected to launch as a public company this week in what will be the most notable public offering since the debut of VMware four months ago.

SEATTLE—-Unified communications software used by the U.S. Army in mission-critical tactical environments could help shave millions of dollars a year from the cost of trading operations for financial institutions reeling from the sub-prime meltdown.