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Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services - Aspects Of The Financial Turmoil - Chartered Insurance Institute President's Dinner, London, 4 March 2008

Date 06/03/2008

Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin by thanking Lord Hunt for giving me the opportunity to address you tonight. These are challenging times in the financial markets in which you work. We are now six months in to the turmoil. I want this evening to touch on a number of aspects and to reflect on some of the planned follow-up actions.

Nymex And LCH.Clearnet Announce Historic Clearing Alliance

Date 06/03/2008

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX), and LCH.Clearnet Ltd today announced that they have signed a Heads of Terms to introduce a broad range of global energy products.  This historic alliance will deliver improved capital and operational efficiencies through wider execution capabilities, broader credit intermediation and margining benefits for customers and market participants.

Euroclear Welcomes Jan Colaes As Managing Director, Project Delivery Services

Date 06/03/2008

Euroclear announces that Jan Colaes will become Managing Director and head of the newly created Project Delivery Services (PDS) division, effective immediately. He will also become a member of the Euroclear Group Management Team.

SWX Swiss Exchange: Settlement In Sanction Proceeding Against BKW FMB Energie AG

Date 06/03/2008

BKW FMB Energie AG (BKW), which is listed in the main segment of SWX Swiss Exchange AG (SWX), disclosed in its IFRS consolidated financial statements for 2005 a correction based on a legally binding SWX sanction decision regarding the recognition and presentation of electricity contracts in a manner that contravened the requirements of that sanction decision as well as the relevant provisions of IAS 8p49 in that the correction was disclosed as being attributable to a change in accounting pol

Athens Stock Exchange

Date 06/03/2008

Due to the ongoing industrial action at the Bank of Greece no trading has taken place at the Athens Stock Exchange since Monday 3 March. Prices being used in Standard & Poor's indices are the closing prices from this day.

HKEx Revised Policy On Suspensions Following Issuers' Publication Of Announcements With Price Sensitive Information To Take Effect Next Monday

Date 06/03/2008

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) reminds investors today (Thursday) that its wholly owned subsidiary, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, will implement the revised policy on suspensions following listed issuers' publication of announcements with price sensitive information next Monday, 10 March 2008.

Wiener Börse Monthly Statistics - February 2008

Date 06/03/2008

Click here to download Wiener Börse's monthly statistics for February 2008.

HKEx Exchange Participants Statistics - On-Floor and Off-Floor Trading Statistics

Date 06/03/2008

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor Main Board + Trading Only Stocks  

Electronic Equity Trading Across London Stock Exchange And Borsa Italiana Up 46 Per Cent

Date 06/03/2008

A total of 21.2 million electronic equity trades were carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana during February 2008, an increase of 46 per cent on February last year. The total value traded was £259.5 billion (€344.4 billion), up 16 per cent on February last year. The average daily number of electronic equity trades increased 39 per cent to 1.0 million, while the average daily value traded grew 10 per cent to £12.4 billion (€16.4 billion).

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - February 2008

Date 06/03/2008

Highlights - Securities Market On 25 February 2008, the securities market turnover was $63.4 billion, the lowest turnover for the year.  However, the average daily turnover for the first two months of 2008 reached $103.0 billion, compared with $54.5 billion in th