Thain reassured members during the conference that he was not abandoning the floortradingsystem.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was mulling rule changes that threatened to put its 212-year-old floortradingsystem at a severe disadvantage to electronic rivals.
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There are some fully electronic trading firms looking to hedge their bets on the demise of the floor-trading system.