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  • Maurren Maggi, From The BM&FBOVESPA Athletics Club, Makes Gold Medal History In Beijing

    Date 22/08/2008

    Maurren Maggi, a Brazilian athlete from the BM&FBOVESPA Athletics Club, won a gold medal in the long jump today, August 22, and became Brazil’s first women’s track-and-field athlete to win an individual gold medal in the Olympic Games. With a leap of 7.04m on her first jump, Maurren surpassed Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva who won silver with a jump of 7.03m. Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria took home the bronze medal, with a mark of 6.91m.

  • CME Group Announces New Members Of Its Board Of Directors And Special Dividend

    Date 22/08/2008

    CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) today announced the three new directors from NYMEX Holdings, Inc. who will serve on the company's board of directors effective immediately. The three new directors are: James Newsome, Class I with a term expiring in 2011 Robert Steele, Class II, with a term expiring in 2009 Dennis Suskind, Class III, with a term expiring in 2010 CME Group Inc. also declared a special dividend of $5.00 per share of its Class A and Class B common stock, a

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

    Date 22/08/2008

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders Duvernay Oil Corp. (TSX:DDV) have accepted the $CDN83.00 cash per share offer from Shell Canada Limited. Duvernay will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity and the S&P/TSX Capped Energy indices after the close of trading on Tuesday, August 26, 2008.

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

    Date 22/08/2008

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, August 22, 2008: Westward Explorations Ltd. (TSXVN:WWE) will be removed from the index. The company will be transferred to NEX to trade under the ticker symbol "WWE.H" and there is no change to the CUSIP number and no consolidation of capital.

  • SEC Enforcement Division Announces Preliminary Settlement With Merrill Lynch To Help Auction Rate Securities Investors

    Date 22/08/2008

    The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement today announced that a preliminary settlement in principle has been reached with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (Merrill Lynch) that would enable investors who purchased auction rate securities from the firm to receive a total of up to $7 billion to restore their losses and liquidity.