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CFTC Obtains Default Judgment Against Former Florida Resident Juvenal E. Machado And His Company, Invers Forex, LLC, For Off-Exchange Forex Scam - Court Orders Defendants To Pay More Than $4 Million In Customer Restitution And Penalty And Permanently Bars Them From The Commodities Industry

Date 08/05/2012

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Marcia G. Cook, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, entered an order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Juvenal Eduardo Machado (Machado) (aka Juvenal Eduardo Machado Bogadi, Edward Kaufman, and Eduardo Machado), whose last known address in the United States is Miami, Fla., and his company, Invers Forex, LLC. Neither defendant has ever been registered with the CFTC.

Volumes Soar On Dubai Mercantile Exchange As New Players Enter Market

Date 08/05/2012

• New record monthly trading volume: 123,162 contracts (a 9% increase over the previous month’s record volume and 15% more than the record set in February 2012)
• Daily trading volume record of 12,648 contracts (a 24.7% increase on the previous record single day which was set on February 15)
• Average daily volume for the month: 6,158 contracts (a 14.5% increase on the previous record ADV of 5,378 contracts)

SEC Charges Movie Producer And Ring Of Relatives And Business Partners With Insider Trading

Date 08/05/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a Hollywood movie producer along with his brother, cousin, and three others in his circle of friends and business partners for insider trading in the stock of a company for which he served on the board of directors.

Hellenic Exchanges Publishes Its Monthly Statistics Bulletin For April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Total turnover €0.49 billion (decreased by 56.3% compared to the previous month and decreased
by 70.3% compared to the same month of the previous year)

Address At The Event Marking The First Signatures To The T2S Framework Agreement - Peter Praet, Member Of The Executive Board Of The ECB, Frankfurt Am Main, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Ladies and gentlemen,

It is no exaggeration to say that today is a historic date for the T2S project. It marks the end of more than two years of negotiations on the T2S Framework Agreement, one of the most critical legal documents underlying the whole project.

Address At The Event Marking The First Signatures To The T2S Framework Agreement - Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Frankfurt Am Main, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am very pleased to welcome you to Frankfurt today on the occasion of the signing of the T2S Framework Agreement by a first group of central securities depositories, or CSDs.

José Manuel Durão Barroso President Of The European Commission Statement By President Barroso: "Seizing The Moment To Boost Growth: 9th May Message From The European Commission" Joint Press Conference With Vice-President Rehn Brussels, 8 May 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

Tomorrow is Europe Day and we celebrate the achievements of the European Union: 62 years of European integration.

Eurosystem Signs T2S Framework Agreement With First Central Securities Depositories

Date 08/05/2012

Today, the European Central Bank (ECB) hosted an event to mark the signing of the T2S Framework Agreement by the Eurosystem and a first group of nine European central securities depositories (CSDs):

• Bank of Greece Securities Settlement System – BOGS (Greece)

• Clearstream Banking AG (Germany)

• Depozitarul Central S.A. (Romania)

• Iberclear (Spain)

• LuxCSD S.A. (Luxembourg)

• Monte Titoli S.p.A. (Italy)

• National Bank of Belgium Securities Settlement System – NBB-SSS (Belgium)

• VP LUX S.á.r.l. (Luxembourg)

• VP Securities A/S (Denmark).

NASDAQ OMX Commodities And Nord Pool Spot Monthly Market Report April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Highlights physical April 2012:

POWER:

• Nord Pool Spot market share of Nordic consumption was 72.7% in April.
• The total Nordic preliminary consumption for April was 31.6 TWh compared to 34.8 TWh inMarch.
• Volumes traded in the day-ahead and intraday markets were 25.9 TWh in April compared to 28.3TWh in March 2012.
• The   average Elspot system price for April was 31.71 EUR/MWh compared to 29.20 EUR/MWh in March 2012.
• The value of turnover in the day-ahead and intraday markets for April was EUR 0.9 billion.

Creditex And Markit To Conduct First Credit Event Auction In Chinese Corporate Credit Market - Sino-Forest Corp. CDS On May 9

Date 08/05/2012

IntercontinentalExchange's Creditex subsidiary and Markit will conduct a Credit Event Auction to facilitate settlement of credit default swaps (CDS) trades on Sino-Forest Corp. on May 9, 2012.  This will be the first credit event auction conducted to settle CDS trades outside of North America, Europe and Japan.