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Anderson has joined Southwest Securities, FSB, the commercial banking subsidiary of SWS Group, Inc. , as Vice President of Commercial Lending at the bank&apos;s North Arlington office.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/164886448</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:20:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Knight Capital: Unbelievably Cheap for No Good Reason (at Seeking Alpha)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/pssa/rss/SIG=12v364t4j/*http%3A//seekingalpha.com/article/178281-knight-capital-unbelievably-cheap-for-no-good-reason?source=yahoo</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1784990486</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:19:14 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[$$] Knight Capital&apos;s Trading Volume Slumps (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/wsj/rss/SIG=12i23j4qv/*http%3A//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304574595731478736914.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoo_hs</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2847029723</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:04:58 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Knight Capital Still a Buy? 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