Recent content by mugpunta

Please refer to my stated distaste of plagiarism

Spoke to more people at Schneiders (their home base) over the w/e, and they all confirmed RAN failed to box the numbers on Friday. Have decided to use Ceefax instead.

I heard from a pal at Schneider Trading, that RAN failed to Squawk the Non-Farm Payrolls number. Bloomberg doesnt look so expensive now, does it?

Respecting someone's property, intellectual or otherwise, is hardly an attribute normally associated with being a mug (Apples10, you may wish to look up irony in a dictionary), rather it is an attribute of being a functioninal member of civil society

I've always considered plagiarism rather distasteful. I shall not be subscribing

I accept that RANSquawk may have received tacit approval from the vendors, but once this (or similar) service is seen to affect their bottom lines, I fear that the situation will change. Having spoken to some staff at the vendors, I know that they are taking a dim view.

As I understand it, RANSquawk are reading off Bloomberg Reuters etc and booming it out, so that locals don't have to pay for these feeds themselves. Intuitively this seems like a breach of copyrite, and I would not want to have my name attached as a recipient of this data, because if the news...