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Muhurat Trading Session At Bombay Stock Exchange In The Samvat Year 2068

Date 26/10/2011

BSE Ltd. (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange) welcomed the Samvat Year 2068 with much fanfare and panache. The Lakshmi Pooja and the Muhurat Trading Session on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 4.45 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. was graced by a lot of recognized personalities from broking fraternity, corporates and bollywood too. Actress Mahima Choudhary was at the Exchange for the ‘Opening Bell’.
FTSE Licenses NASDAQ OMX With The Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) Across Seven European Exchanges

Date 26/10/2011

FTSE Group (“FTSE”), the award winning global index provider, today announces that worldwide exchange NASDAQ OMX will be adopting the widely used global standard for company classification - Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB). The global classification system will be adopted across Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, aligning the exchanges with the classification system currently employed by NASDAQ OMX in the US.
MTS Launches Macro-Weighted Government Bond Indices - Innovative Weighting Method - Brings Investors A Set Of Diversified Benchmark Instruments, Reflecting More Accurately The Economic Situation Of Eurozone Countries

Date 26/10/2011

MTS, Europe's premier facilitator for the electronic fixed income market, announced today the launch of the EuroMTS Macro-Weighted AAA Government Bond Index range.
Tokyo Financial Exchange: Six-Month Euroyen LIBOR Futures

Date 26/10/2011

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) will launch a six month Euroyen LIBOR futures contract.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Request In Relation To Recent Issues Pertaining To Listed Companies

Date 26/10/2011

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. and Tokyo Stock Exchange Regulation hereby released the "Request in reaction to recent issues pertaining to listed companies".

RTS Group Weekly Trading Results

Date 26/10/2011

Weekly Trading Results: October 17 - 21, 2011 (pdf, 402 Кб)
NASDAQ OMX Adopts ICB Company Classification Standard Globally

Date 26/10/2011

NASDAQ OMX has decided to adopt the ICB (Industry Classification Benchmark) standard globally, effective as of February 1, 2012. The NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius will adopt ICB which is the current standard on the NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the US.
IMF Sees Varied Outlook For Mideast, With Oil-Importing Countries Facing Continued Economic Pressures

Date 26/10/2011

The economic outlook for countries across the Middle East and North Africa region varies markedly, with the oil-exporters seeing a mild pickup in growth in 2011 on the back of higher oil prices, and the oil-importers experiencing a dramatic slowdown, the IMF says in its latest assessment of the region. The IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia, released today, projects growth in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, at 3.9 percent in 2011, down from 4.4 percent in 2010.
SIX Swiss Exchange To Offer Co-Location Services For New X-Stream INET Trading Platform With Equinix

Date 26/10/2011

SIX Swiss Exchange will offer co-location services for its new equities trading platform X-stream INET together with Equinix, a provider of global data center services. Connection to the new platform, scheduled for launch in the first half of 2012, will be provided in Equinix’s Zurich International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, and will offer market participants significantly enhanced trading capacity and reduced latency.
TABB Says Proposed Margin Rules For OTC Interest-Rate Derivatives Will Severely Damage Swaps Market Liquidity - Proposed Rules Will Render Many Trade Structures Extinct And Represent $1.4 Trillion In New Capital Allocation Globally For Rates Swaps

Date 26/10/2011

Regulatory mandates requiring firms to post initial margin on over-the-counter derivatives (OTCD) are among the biggest changes that Dodd-Frank legislation is set to bring about. According to TABB Group estimates in new research, these new margin rules will cause OTC interest-rate derivatives market participants to shoulder at least $1.4 trillion in new capital charges globally within the next three to five years.