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  • Dalian Commodity Exchange: Accelerating The Development And Improvement Of Farm Produce Futures Market And Better Serving Agriculture, Farmers And Rural Areas

    Date 06/02/2013

    The Central No.1 document just issued this year proposed “strengthening the construction of farm produce futures market, properly increasing new varieties of bulk farm produce futures and building farm produce pricing and trading center with certain influence at home and abroad.” About this proposal the relevant director at DCE said futures market, as an important part of modern market system, plays a bigger role in guiding production, stabilizing markets, and hedging against risks, and farm produce futures markets have good prospects. He also said DCE will actively follow the requirements of the Central No.1 document of the Central Committee of CPC, and accelerate and improve farm produce futures markets and better serve agriculture, farmers and rural areas from the three aspects——innovating and enriching the varieties of farm produce futures, improving the rules on the contracts of launched agricultural product varieties and continuing to deepening and innovating industrial services.

  • Shanghai Stock Exchange 10-Year China Treasury Note (Futures Deliverables) Index To Be Launched

    Date 06/02/2013

    Designed to serve as a new investable benchmark for bond investors as well as to promote innovation of China bond market, CSI today announced the upcoming launch of SSE 10-Year China Treasury Note (Futures Deliverables) Index on Mar 7th 2013. The base date of the former index is December 31st, 2008. The base index is 100.

  • CalPERS Statement On California Attorney General's Lawsuit Against Standard & Poor's

    Date 06/02/2013

    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today (5 February) issued the following statement about state and federal lawsuits against Standard & Poor’s for fraudulent investment ratings:

    “We welcome the AG’s efforts to hold S&P accountable for their rating methodologies that resulted in significant losses to California's public pension funds and other investors,” said Robert Glazier, CalPERS Deputy Executive Officer. “CalPERS is a victim of S&P's wrongdoing, and a recovery from S&P will benefit the millions of public employees that rely on us for their retirement security. CalPERS is glad to have the federal and state governments on our side in these efforts to hold the ratings agencies accountable."

  • NASDAQ OMX January 2013 Volumes

    Date 06/02/2013

    The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today reported monthly volumes for January 2013 on its investor relations website. A data sheet showing the monthly volumes for can be found at: http://ir.nasdaqomx.com/monthly-reporting/

  • Number Of Certified Financial Planner Professionals Approaches 150,000 Worldwide With Number Of Thai CFP Professionals Increased By 27% Overall In 2012

    Date 06/02/2013

    Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), owner of the international CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER certification program, reported that the global number of CFP professionals grew by more than 8,000 last year (for an annual growth rate of 5.7 percent), from 139,818 at year-end 2011 to 147,822 at year-end 2012.