Maybe it's the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday next week. Maybe a lot of prosecutors and regulators buckled down yesterday and cleared their desks. Maybe it's just the confluence of the stars in the heavens. Whatever the cause, we sure as hell got a lot of industry news today and, as such, we're pre-empting the usually brilliant (and at times mesmerizing) commentary from our publisher Bill Singer, Esq., and offering you links to our companion online publication the Securities Industry Commentator (which, truth be told, is often brilliant in its own right and has often risen to mesmerizing heights).