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Top 20 Largest Consolidated Short Position Report - January 31, 2013

Date 05/02/2013

Please find below the Top 20 Largest Consolidated Short Position Report Highlights. The report is produced twice monthly, effective the 15th and the end of each month. The report below covers the 2-week period ending January 31, 2013.

Share Sales Increase Free Float On Warsaw Stock Exchange

Date 05/02/2013

• Thanks to recent transactions in shares of companies listed on the WSE, the free-float ratio[1] of the Warsaw Stock Exchange has increased by 1.5 percentage points to 47.5%.
• PKO BP has become the domestic company with the highest value of free-float shares on the WSE (PLN 29.7 billion).

TMX Group Consolidated Trading Statistics – January 2013 - Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha, Montreal Exchange, NGX

Date 05/02/2013

TMX Group Limited today announced January 2013 trading statistics for its diversified group of exchanges – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange (MX), Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), TMX Select and Alpha.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General For The Civil Division Stuart F. Delery Speaks At The Press Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against S&P

Date 05/02/2013

Good morning.   My name is Stuart Delery, and I head the Justice Department's Civil Division, which, along with the United States Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California, led the investigation that gave rise to today's filing.  

Platts: Continental European Day-Ahead Power Prices Rose 10% In January - Natural Gas Prices Fell 3% In Europe And Edged Higher In The U.K.

Date 05/02/2013

Day-ahead power prices in Continental Europe rose 10% in January, driven by cold winter temperatures and increased demand, according to Platts, a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information.

Acting Associate U.S. Attorney General Tony West Speaks At The Press Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against S&P

Date 05/02/2013

Thank you, Mr. Attorney General.   And thank you for your tremendous leadership, both on the case we are announcing today and on the Department’s efforts to fight financial fraud over the past four years.  

Thomson Reuters Launches Datascope Workflow License For Order Management Systems - Combines Technical Indicators, Pricing And Reference Data To Seamlessly Streamline Workflow Processes.

Date 05/02/2013

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of the DataScope Workflow License (DWL). The DataScope Workflow License combines a series of technical indicators with pricing and reference data, enabling the investment community to streamline and integrate their data management and performance strategies.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks At The Press Conference Announcing Lawsuit Against S&P

Date 05/02/2013

Good morning – and thank you all for being here.   Today, I am joined by Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Stuart Delery; United States Attorney Andre Birotté, Jr., for the Central District of California; and attorneys general from six states and the District of Columbia – in announcing the latest steps forward in our ongoing efforts to protect the American people from financial fraud, to hold accountable those who violate our laws and abuse the public trust, and to seek justice for all whose lives were devastated by the recent economic crisis.

Irish Stock Exchange’s GEM Market Approved By ECB For Eurosystem Monetary Policy

Date 05/02/2013

The Irish Stock Exchange’s Global Exchange Market (GEM) has been approved by the European Central Bank (ECB) as an acceptable non-regulated market for the Eurosystem’s monetary policy.

Department Of Justice Sues Standard & Poor’s For Fraud In Rating Mortgage-Backed Securities In The Years Leading Up To The Financial Crisis - Complaint Alleges That S&P Lied About Its Objectivity And Independence And Issued Inflated Ratings For Certain Structured Debt Securities

Date 05/02/2013

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services alleging that S&P engaged in a scheme to defraud investors in structured financial products known as Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). The lawsuit alleges that investors, many of them federally insured financial institutions, lost billions of dollars on CDOs for which S&P issued inflated ratings that misrepresented the securities’ true credit risks. The complaint also alleges that S&P falsely represented that its ratings were objective, independent, and uninfluenced by S&P’s relationships with investment banks when, in actuality, S&P’s desire for increased revenue and market share led it to favor the interests of these banks over investors.