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CME Group To Offer Treasury And Interest Rate Swap Spreads - Exchange Continues To Extend CME Globex Functionality Across All Products

Date 19/06/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced plans to offer U.S. Treasury and Interest Rate Swap predefined, implied intercommodity spreads. The new spreads, a first for fixed-income futures, will trade on the CME Globex® electronic trading platform and will become available in the fourth quarter of 2008.

SEC Charges Two Former Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud

Date 19/06/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former Bear Stearns Asset Management (BSAM) portfolio managers for fraudulently misleading investors about the financial state of the firm's two largest hedge funds and their exposure to subprime mortgage-backed securities before the collapse of the funds in June 2007.

KCBT Wheat Daily Price Limit For Trade Date June 20, 2008 At 60 Cents

Date 19/06/2008

Price limits for KCBT hard red winter wheat futures are at 60 cents for trade date June 20, 2008 (effective with the June 19 evening session).

NYMEX Announces Trading And Processing Schedule For Independence Day Holiday

Date 19/06/2008

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), today announced a complete trading and processing schedule for the Independence Day holiday.

Program Trading Averaged 21.7 Percent Of NYSE Volume During June 9-13

Date 19/06/2008

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for June 9-13.

CBOE, CBSX And CFE Trading Schedule For Fourth Of July Holiday

Date 19/06/2008

CHICAGO, June 18, 2008 - The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) today announced the following trading schedule in observance of the Independence Day holiday(all times are Chicago time):

CME Group To List Options On E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 Index Futures - Exchange Launches Online Equity Research Center

Date 19/06/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today that options on the E-mini® S&P SmallCap 600® equity index futures are scheduled to begin trading July 27.

TMX Group Introduces Two New Order Types To Facilitate Traders Executing Pre-Arranged Trades And To Meet Best Price Obligations

Date 19/06/2008

Market participants will soon find it easier to manage their obligations to fill better-priced visible orders at Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange when executing a designated trade at a prearranged price on TSX/TSXV with the following order types:

Trade At The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd. – Employees' Sanctions

Date 19/06/2008

Further to our previous announcement this morning, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange employees have not activated the trading system, therefore today, 19 June 2008, there will be no trading at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Northern Trust Lists The NETS™ ISEQ 20™ Index Fund (Ireland) On NYSE Arca

Date 19/06/2008

NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the launch of Northern Trust’s Northern Exchange Traded Shares™ (NETS ™) ISEQ 20™ Index Fund on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol IQE.  This will be the first ETF available to U.S. investors tracking the Irish market. ETFs and ETNs listed on NYSE Arca--an industry leader in ETF and