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Tokyo Financial Exchange: Termination Of Daily Update Of Exchange FX Margin Contracts Open Interest Data

Date 01/05/2012

TFX will stop updating for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts Daily Open Interest Data from 7th  May onwards.  Final update will be the data of the 4th May trades.

Tokyo Financial Exchange: Trading Volume in April 2012

Date 01/05/2012

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 312,394 decreasing 15.3%  in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and decreasing  16.6% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was  15,620 .

Tokyo Grain Exchange Monthly Trading Report - April 2012

Date 01/05/2012

Please click here to download the TGE Monthly Trading Report for April.

Maple And TMX Group Announce Agreements To Acquire CDS And Alpha And Extension Of Offer To TMX Group Shareholders - Extend Offer To May 31, 2012 And Outside Date To July 31, 2012

Date 01/05/2012

Maple Group Acquisition Corporation ("Maple"), a corporation whose investors comprise 13 of Canada's leading financial institutions and pension funds, and TMX Group Inc. (“TMX Group”) (TSX:X) today announced that Maple has reached agreements for the acquisition by Maple of The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (“CDS”) and of Alpha Trading Systems Inc. and Alpha Trading Limited Partnership (collectively, “Alpha”). Maple and TMX Group have also agreed to extend the outside date for completing the Maple offer to July 31, 2012 and, consistent with that, have announced an extension of the Maple offer initially to May 31, 2012.

SEC Charges Mother, Daughter, And Their Attorney In Illegal Penny Stock Scheme

Date 30/04/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a mother and daughter along with their attorney in a scheme to unlawfully acquire and sell billions of shares of penny stock in unregistered transactions.

Graco Shareowners Back CalPERS Proposal For Majority Vote In Board Elections

Date 30/04/2012

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced today that Graco shareowners strongly supported a proposal by the pension fund that advises the company to adopt a majority vote standard for board candidates in uncontested elections.  Approximately 83 percent of Graco shareowners voted for the good governance measure.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 30/04/2012

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:

• The shares of Merc International Minerals Inc. (TSXVN:MRK) will trade under the new name Nighthawk Gold Corp. in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of Monday, April 30, 2012. The new ticker symbol will be "NHK" and the new CUSIP number will be 65412D 10 6. There is no consolidation of capital.

Platts Data Selected As Basis For CME’s U.S. Midwest Aluminum Swap Futures

Date 30/04/2012

Platts’ aluminum price assessments have been selected as the sole settlement basis for CME Group’s newly launched Aluminum MW U.S. Transaction Premium Platts (25MT) Swap Futurescontract. Platts is a leading global energy, metals and petrochemicals information provider and a top publisher of global benchmark reference prices.

BM&FBOVESPA Closed On Tuesday May, 1st - Labor Day

Date 30/04/2012

On Tuesday (May, 1st) is public holiday in Brazil and there will be no trading on BM&FBOVESPA.

BOX Granted SRO Approval From U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission

Date 30/04/2012

BOX Options Exchange announces it has received SEC approval of its application for registration as a national securities exchange and thus, act as its own selfregulatory organization (SRO). BOX expects to start using its own exchange license in mid-May. Being an SRO eliminates the need for BOX to rely on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., which has been conducting the regulatory oversight of its options market.