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FINANCIAL SECTORNYSE, NASD Unveil Plan To Unite Policing DutiesThe New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers unveiled a long-awaited plan to combine their brokerage-firm policing duties, handing a victory to Wall Street critics who had argued that the current regulatory apparatus is rife with unnecessary duplication. The NASD and the Big Board’s parent, NYSE Group Inc., said in a statement yesterday morning that they have signed a letter of intent to form a new self-regulatory organization, or SRO, “that will be the private-sector regulator for all securities brokers and dealers doing business with the public in the United States.” The new regulator will be carved out from the NASD and NYSE Regulation, which now act as the two big cops on the Wall Street beat, under oversight from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which still needs to approve the plan.— Dow Jones NewswiresApple Shares Rise After Holiday ForecastSAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose to a record after analysts said faster Macintosh computers and low-priced iPod players will spur holiday sales, and that a new music phone may buoy revenue next year. Mac and iPod shipments may reach record highs this quarter, said a UBS AG analyst, Benjamin Reitzes, who yesterday raised his profit estimate for the period to 80 cents a share from 78 cents. Analysts on average expect 77 cents. He foresees Mac sales of 1.8 million units and iPod sales of 16.6 million.— Bloomberg NewsTECHNOLOGYGoogle Strikes Content-Sharing DealGoogle Inc. said yesterday that it has struck a content-sharing deal with two organizations to partly settle a dispute in Belgium over news articles available through the Internet search engine. But Google still faces a bid by Belgian newspapers — spearheaded by copyright protection society Copiepresse — to get the company to pull the news content unless it paid the newspapers or received their permission. A judge for the Brussels-based Court of First Instance said she would deliver her verdict in early January.— Associated Press

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