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  • MCX Revamps COMDEX - India’s First Real-Time Composite Commodity Futures Index

    Date 08/08/2007

    The Index Maintenance Committee, comprising senior officials from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Credit Analysis & Research Ltd and MCX, today announced changes in the composition and weightage of India’s first real-time composite commodity futures index - MCX-COMDEX. The index is calculated and displayed on a real-time basis on MCX Trader Work Stations and at various other display centers.

  • Eurex To Launch Trading In Austrian Equity Options - Trading In The 11 Options Starts On 10 September

    Date 08/08/2007

    The international derivatives exchange Eurex is expanding its European equity option offering, introducing eleven options on Austrian equities on 10 September: Boehler-Uddeholm, Betandwin, Erste Bank, Immoeast, ÖMV, Raiffeisenbank, RHI, Telekom Austria, Verbundgesellschaft, Voestalpine and Wienerberger. With the exception of Immoeast, all of the underlying shares are listed in the Austrian blue chip index ATX. The new options will complement the ten single stock futures on selected Austr

  • Axiss Australia a2a Newsletter Issue 164, 8 August 2007

    Date 08/08/2007

    a2a e-newsletter is a the fortnightly bulletin compiled by Axiss Australia. a2a provides a summary of key events in Australia's financial services industry and their implications for Australia's position as a global financial services centre.

  • NZX: Bridgecorp – Clarification Of Media Inaccuracies

    Date 08/08/2007

    In response to inaccuracies in recent media reporting, NZX would like to clarify the following in respect of Bridgecorp. Bridgecorp first approached the then NZSE for listing in February 1999. The profile was accompanied by the most recent financial statements to 31 March 1998. In June 1999 this listing application was declined. Bridgecorp made a second application for listing in February 2000. A report was prepared in March 2000 to assist the listing sub-committee of NZSE

  • Calculation Of Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section Stock Price Index In Relation To Stock Of BULL-DOG SAUCE CO. LTD.

    Date 08/08/2007

    Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) announced today that it will exclude 6,299,859 shares of BULL-DOG SAUCE CO. LTD. (Second Section, SICC Code 2804, hereinafter the “Company”) in calculating Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section Stock Price Index after the close of trading on August 30, 2007 upon the announcement by the Company on August 7, 2007.

  • Share Change For TNT NV In The S&P European Indices

    Date 07/08/2007

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro indices, effective after the close of trading on Thursday 09 August 2007: TNT NV (Netherlands, SEDOL: 5481558, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20301010), a member of the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro indices, shares will change to 391,820,000, following the repurchase and cancellation of shares, and the IWF will remain 1.

  • BOX Receives Regulatory Approval To Accept Orders In Pennies For All Options Series

    Date 07/08/2007

    BOX, the first options exchange to trade in pennies, received SEC approval on August 2, 2007 for the launch of its Auto Auction Order ("AAO") which will allow all Public Customer acccounts to send orders to BOX in pennies even if the option series is not part of the Penny Pilot. When a limit order denominated in pennies for a non-penny series is received by BOX, the order will be rounded to the nearest valid trading tick (rounded down if a buy order and up if a sell order) and bo

  • First Bancorp Settles SEC Financial Fraud Charges Involving "Non-Conforming" Mortgages - Bank Holding Company To Pay $8.5 Million Civil Penalty

    Date 07/08/2007

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed financial fraud charges against First BanCorp, alleging that former senior management of the NYSE-listed, Puerto Rico-based bank holding company concealed the true nature of more than $4 billion worth of transactions involving "non-conforming" residential mortgages. Non-conforming mortgages have income verification and credit history standards that are generally more flexible than those required for sale or exchange under Fannie Mae and Freddie

  • SEC To Convene Summit To Combat Investment Fraud Against Senior Citizens - Commission’s Seniors Summit To Be Held Sept. 10

    Date 07/08/2007

    Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that the agency will hold its second annual Seniors Summit on Sept. 10, 2007, at the SEC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. The event will further examine how regulators, community organizations, and others can increasingly coordinate efforts to protect older Americans from abusive sales practices and investment fraud.

  • AMF: Enforcement Committee Decision Concerning Marionnaud Parfumeries, KPMG SA, Cofirec, And Messrs Marcel And Gérald Frydman, Yves Gouhir And Gérard Caro

    Date 07/08/2007

    Marionnaud, which at the material time was managed by Marcel Frydman, its chairman and chief executive, and by Gérald Frydman, managing director, chief financial officer and the person named in the registration documents as being responsible for disclosure, delayed the publication of the company's results on three occasions until 30 June 2004. On 17 December 2004, Marionnaud finally announced "error corrections" in the amount of €93 million at 30 June 2004. The AMF General Secretary decide