Johannesburg — BY REGULATING labour brokers, the government might become a labour broker itself, the Freedom Front Plus’s parliamentary spokesman on labour, Anton Alberts, said yesterday.

WASHINGTON—-The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced today that it has permanently barred Kirkland, WA, broker Rhonda Lee Breard from the securities industry for defrauding at least 38 clients of at least $8 million through a scheme that involved converting client funds to her personal use while sending falsified account statements to her customers.

The yen retreated as weak economic data boosted the Japanese currency’s funding credentials and profit repatriation flows from Japanese companies dried up