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

Date 28/10/2010

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The unitholders of Yellow Pages Income Fund (TSX:YLO.UN) have approved the conversion of the company to a corporate structure through a Plan of Arrangement. The units will be exchanged on a 1-for-1 basis for Yellow Media Inc. (TSX:YLO). As a result of the conversion, Yellow Pages Income Fund will be removed from the S&P/TSX Income Trust Index. Yellow Media Inc. will be added to the S&P/TSX Equity, C
Statement By SIFMA CEO Tim Ryan On Speech By Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner

Date 28/10/2010

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today released the following introductory remarks welcoming Michel Barnier, Commissioner for EU Internal Market and Services, to a speech before SIFMA members.
General Motors To Repurchase Treasury Preferred Stock: Cumulative Return To Taxpayers Reaches $9.5 Billion

Date 28/10/2010

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that it has accepted an offer by General Motors (GM) to repurchase its $2.1 billion of Series A preferred stock issued under the Trouble Asset Relief Program, conditioned on the closing of the proposed initial public offering of GM's common stock. With this repurchase, taxpayers will have received a total of $9.5 billion from GM through repayments, interest, and dividends, since the company emerged from bankruptcy in July 2009. Treasury's tot
SIFMA Issues Quarterly Government Securities Issuance And Rates Forecas

Date 28/10/2010

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today issued its quarterly government securities issuance and rates forecast for the fourth quarter of 2010.
ELX Futures Exceeds 100,000 Contracts Of Open Interest And Sets New Volume Record In Eurodollar Futures

Date 28/10/2010

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX) announced today that it has reached a new milestone in open interest (OI) and set a new volume record in its Eurodollar Futures contract, which was launched in June 2010.

Program Trading Averaged 25.3 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Oct. 18-22

Date 28/10/2010

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Oct. 18-22.
SEC Charges Massachusetts-Based Forex Traders And Their Firm With Fraud

Date 28/10/2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two foreign currency traders and their Boston-based company with operating a fraudulent scheme in which they sent investors misleading account statements while stealing their funds and incurring major trading losses.
Dow Jones Indexes Launches U.S. Venture Capital Index

Date 28/10/2010

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider and a CME Group company, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones U.S. Venture Capital Index, designed to measure changes in the market value of venture capital-financed companies in the United States. The new index has been licensed to Chicago Alternative Investment Partners, LLC to serve as a basis for financial products.
CME Group Inc. Reports Solid Third-Quarter 2010 Financial Results

Date 28/10/2010

CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME) today reported that third-quarter total revenues increased 13 percent to $733 million and operating income increased 10 percent to $443 million from the year-ago period. Third-quarter net income was $244 million, up 21 percent from third quarter last year, and diluted earnings per share were $3.66, up 20 percent.
RTS Collateral Requirement Raised For Public Holidays

Date 28/10/2010

RTS Clearing Center increases the basic size of collateral on FORTS and RTS Standard for the upcoming public holidays.