The Securities and Exchange Commission is back under fire after the agency's own watchdog alleged suspicious trading activity and possible insider trading by two staff attorneys.

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"To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities, " the FOMC says, adding it will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.

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One measure of how effectively the incoming president and his crisis-management team have taken charge was their refusal to accept the Grand National Party's plan to place a new watchdog agency for supervising banks, securities firms and insurance companies under the Ministry of Finance.

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Collage is now in use at the National Association of Securities Dealers, the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Defense Contracts Management Agency.

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But more than half of this "independent" agency's staff will come directly from the ministry, with the remainder from the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, an arm of the MOF.

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And the present chairman, John Shad, an investment banker, has shown little desire to push up the agency's budget or to move it into new areas such as overseeing the unregulated government securities markets.

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