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Tokyo Stock Exchange Announces Outline Of Style Indices (Value And Growth Indices)

Date 28/07/2008

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has announced details on the specifications of the style indices (value and growth indices) that the exchange intends to launch in autumn as announced on February 29, 2008.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Announces Intent To Expand TOPIX Series With The Introduction Of "Composite Index Series"

Date 28/07/2008

The Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) today has announced its intention to launch a composite index series including the "TOPIX Composite 1500" later this year in an effort to enhance index usability. The TSE will begin calculating indices that adopt domestic classified stocks, foreign stocks with exclusive listings on the TSE, and domestic preferred subscription certificates into the index universe.
Tehran Stock Exchange IPOed First Cement Company This Year

Date 27/07/2008

On 27 July 2008, thirteen percent of equity shares of kordestan cement Co (Equivalent of 21,060,000 shares of company) first time after listing, was offered by Omid Investment Co (5%) and Ghadir Sanat and Sarmeye Tose Co (8%) on Tehran Stock Exchange at the price of $ .85 per share with the total value of $12.2 million.
SEC Emergency Action Freezes Assets Of Unknown Purchasers In Insider Trading Scheme

Date 25/07/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed an emergency action to freeze the assets of one or more unknown purchasers of the call options for the common stock of DRS Technologies, Inc. and American Power Conversion Corp., alleging that they reaped more than $3 million in profits by engaging in illegal insider trading through an account with UBS AG prior to public announcements related to acquisitions of those companies.
NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Record For Total Natural Gas Futures Contracts, Natural Gas Futures On CME Globex®

Date 25/07/2008

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), set daily volume records yesterday for total natural gas futures contracts traded via electronic and open outcry trading and natural gas futures contracts traded on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.

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

Date 25/07/2008

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, July 25, 2008: The shares of Noveko International Inc. (TSXVN:EKO) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on TSX under the same ticker symbol.
Adding Ajman Bank To DFM General Index And To Banking Index

Date 25/07/2008

Dubai Financial Market announced the addition of Ajman bank to DFM general index, DFMGI, and to the banking index. Total outstanding shares for the bank are one billion shares, out of which 750 million shares are free float that represent the bank in the mentioned indexes. Accordingly, the market capitalization for Ajman bank, represents 1.2% of DFMGI total market capitalization.
Visit Of Senator Jean Arthuis To The Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Date 25/07/2008

On 25 July 2008, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange welcomed Senator Jean Arthuis, member of the French senate and former Minister of Economy and Finance from August 1995 to June 1997. Senator Arthuis was accompanied by Mr Charles Waline, head of the Secretariat of the Finance Committee of the senate. Senator Arthuis visited Luxembourg in his capacity as Chairman of the French Committee of Finance, Budgetary Control and Economic Accounts of the Nation. He was welcomed by the executive com
ICE Futures Canada: Negotiated Option Strategy Transactions

Date 25/07/2008

ICE Futures Canada is pleased to announce the introduction of a new transaction type called a Negotiated Option Strategy. This new transaction permits all market participants, through Eligible Counterparties, to negotiate, on a bilateral basis, options strategies on Exchange traded options (canola, feed wheat and western barley). These new off-exchange transactions are the response by the Exchange to requests from market participants seeking an effective way to negotiate and trade options str
SIFMA Supports SEC Efforts To Improve Investor Confidence in Credit Ratings - Suggests Ways to Improve Proposed Rules

Date 25/07/2008

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Credit Rating Agency Task Force, in a comment letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on parts one and two of the SEC’s proposed rules for credit rating agencies, broadly supports the SEC’s efforts to address the issues relating to credit ratings of structured finance products, as well as improve the ratings