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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.

2012 Will Be A Year Of Disruption For US Hedge Funds Trading Equities, Says TABB - Large Funds Slashing Broker Tails - 50% Of Funds Want Greater Algorithmic Transparency - Rising Cost Of Compliance A Top Concern

Date 08/05/2012

After enduring 2011’s bruising markets, US hedge funds trading equities tell TABB Group that 2012 will be a year of disruption with market conditions, sell-side broker economics and regulation creating a triangle of change, already reshaping their trading environment.

Monte Titoli Signs ECB T2S Framework Agreement - Reaffirms Long-Standing Commitment To Participate In First Wave Of T2S - Supports T2S Objectives To Harmonise European Securities Settlement Infrastructure - Underpins Continuing Operation As Competitive, Neutral Settlement And Asset Servicing Provider

Date 08/05/2012

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE Group) today announces that Monte Titoli has signed the European Central Bank's (ECB) T2S Framework Agreement at a ceremony in Frankfurt. The signing ceremony was hosted by Mario Draghi, ECB President and Peter Praet, member of ECB Executive Board responsible for T2S.

TOM Insight April 2012

Date 08/05/2012

Click here to download TOM’s April ‘12 Insight, a document describing matching statistics on TOM MTF and savings made for the retail client by TOM Smart Execution.

Hellenic Exchanges 11th Annual General Meeting: Modification Of The Articles Of Association

Date 08/05/2012

Hellenic Exchanges informs investors, in accordance with §2 art. 19 of Law 3556/2007 and ahead of the Annual General Meeting of shareholders, which will take place on Wednesday May 23^rd 2012 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the company (110 Athinon Ave., ‘HERMES’ hall), that it intends to modify article 5 of its Articles of Association, as a result of the proposed reduction of the share capital by the mount of EUR5,229,485.04, which will take place through a EUR0.08 reduction in the stock par value (from EUR0.87 to EUR0.79) and distribution of that amount to shareholders.

Deutsche Börse To Hold Annual Investor Day On 1 June 2012 - Live Video Webcast Available

Date 08/05/2012

Deutsche Börse will hold its annual Investor Day for financial analysts and institutional investors on Friday, 1 June 2012 at its headquarters in Eschborn. A live video webcast will be available on www.deutsche-boerse.com/ir_e (no password or registration is required).

BM&FBOVESPA Announces Winner Of The Bidding Process For Use Of The New IBOVESPA ETF

Date 08/05/2012

Caixa Econômica Federal won the bidding process that BM&FBOVESPA held to license use of the BOVESPA Index for a new ETF based on IBOVESPA. The Exchange opened the proposals and announced the results of the process. Three institutions participated.

STOXX Launches STOXX+ Minimum Variance Indices In Collaboration With Axioma

Date 08/05/2012

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX+ Minimum Variance Index family. The new index family uses Harry M. Markowitz’s Nobel Prize winning Modern Portfolio Theory to create a hypothetical, risk-optimized portfolio, which is based on a variety of STOXX indices. Axioma, a leading provider of portfolio constructions tools and risk models, provides the fundamental factor model used to calculate the rebalancing portfolios.

FTSE Licences MSS Real Estate LLP To Launch FTSE UK Commercial Property Index Fund

Date 08/05/2012

FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider, announces the licensing of MSS Real Estate LLP (“MSS”) to create the FTSE UK Commercial Property Index Fund Limited, a new closed-ended investment company to be listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange which tracks the FTSE All UK Property Index, the headline index of the FTSE UK Commercial Property Index Series (“Index”).