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  • CBOT Fed Watch - June 27, 2007

    Date 27/06/2007

    In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on June 28, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.

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

    Date 27/06/2007

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders of Tenke Mining Corp. (TSX:TNK) have approved the acquisition of the company by Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX:LUN). Tenke Mining will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials and Capped Diversified Metals & Mining

  • CalPERS Joins Diversity "Pipeline" Project

    Date 27/06/2007

    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, in its ongoing effort to promote and enhance diversity in the workplace and in its business operations, today announced it is becoming a founding member of the California Aspire Achieve Lead Pipeline Project (CaAAL Pipeline Project). The project is an innovative education and mentoring program that seeks to encourage and develop young people for careers in the legal profession, financial services, and information technology.

  • ISS Recommends CME Shareholders Vote 'FOR' Merger With CBOT

    Date 27/06/2007

    Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME)(NASDAQ: CME) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that CME shareholders vote "FOR" the merger of CBOT Holdings, Inc. with CME. In a separate report, ISS also recommended that CBOT shareholders vote "FOR" the merger. ISS is the leading independent U.S. proxy advisory firm and its voting analyses and recommendations are relied upon by hundreds of major institutional investment funds, mutual funds an

  • Banco Popolare – Societa Cooperativa Will Replace Banco Popolare Di Verona E Novara In The S&P European Indices

    Date 27/06/2007

    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 Friday 29 June, 2007:

  • IntercontinentalExchange Sets Date For Second Quarter 2007 Earnings Release And Conference Call

    Date 27/06/2007

    IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, will announce second quarter 2007 financial results on Thursday, July 26, 2007. An earnings press release will be issued prior to the earnings conference call, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET.

  • CBOT: Letter To Members Regarding Strategic Merger With The CME

    Date 27/06/2007

    Dear Members: We are pleased with today’s news that Institutional Shareholder Services, the leading independent proxy advisory firm, is supporting our strategic merger with the CME.  We also appreciate the feedback we continue to receive and the support that many of you continue to voice on behalf of the CME/CBOT combination. We want to further emphasize what we believe is one of the most important considerations in this historic combination:  integration and executi

  • NASD Fines Wells Fargo Securities $250,000 For Failing To Disclose Analyst's Employment With Covered Company In Research Report - NASD Also Suspends Former Director Of Research, Files Complaint Against Analyst

    Date 27/06/2007

    NASD announced today that it censured and fined Wells Fargo Securities, LLC of San Francisco $250,000 - and imposed a $40,000 fine and 60-day supervisory suspension against its former Director of Research, Douglas van Dorsten - for failing to disclose in a research report that the lead analyst on the report had accepted a job at Cadence Design Systems, a San Jose, CA company that was the subject of the report.

  • TSX Venture Exchange Seeks Leave To Appeal From BC Securities Commission Decision Regarding William John Nichols

    Date 27/06/2007

    TSX Venture Exchange today announced that it intends to apply to the BC Court of Appeal for leave to appeal from the decision of the BC Securities Commission regarding the suitability of William John Nichols. In late 2005, TSX Venture Exchange found Mr. Nichols unsuitable to provide investor relations services to TSX Venture listed issuers. The decision was based upon: (a) Mr. Nichols' failure to disclose 19 of 20 of his prior criminal convictions on his Personal Information Form filed

  • CFTC Names Walter Lukken Acting Chairman

    Date 27/06/2007

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that, in accordance with CFTC Rules, the members of the Commission have elected Commissioner Walter Lukken to serve as Acting Chairman. Lukken will exercise the executive and administrative functions of the Commission until a new Chairman has been appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.