* There is no US government shareholding in Bank of New York Mellon, as wrongly suggested in an article on October 19 about Mexican laws barring foreign governments from owning a stake in domestic banks.
* The fund manager Aronson Johnson + Ortiz is based in Philadelphia, not Baltimore as wrongly stated in the Short View column on October 20.
* Bill Nelson, senator for Florida, is a member of the senate finance committee, not Ben Nelson, senator for Nebraska, as wrongly stated in an article on October 19.


