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  • BOVESPA Stock Options Turn Over BRL 1.16 Billion In September

    Date 15/09/2008

    The exercise of stock options on BM&FBOVESPA added up to BRL 1,167,383,565.00 on September 15. Call options totaled BRL 330,049,838.00 while put options amounted to BRL 837,333,727.00. Check below the most active stock options: Petrobras PN at BRL 55.00 per share turned over BRL 200.62 million in put options; Petrobras PN at BRL 35.00 per share turned over BRL 128.89 million in put options; Vale R Doce PNA at BRL 34.00 pe

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

    Date 15/09/2008

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders of CHC Helicopter Corporation (TSX:FLY.A) have accepted the $CDN32.68 per share cash offer from First Reserve Corporation. CHC Helicopter will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity, Capped Equity, Equity Completion and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap and the S&P/TSX Capped Energy indices after the close of trading on

  • SEC Charges Bogus PIPE Promoters In $52 Million Ponzi Scheme

    Date 15/09/2008

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an Irvine, Calif., attorney and two other promoters for conducting a $52.7 million Ponzi scheme in which they sold investors bogus PIPE (private investment in public equity) investments, promised unrealistic profits, and misappropriated more than $20 million of investors' funds to function as their own personal piggy bank.

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

    Date 15/09/2008

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Monday, September 15, 2008: The shares of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. (TSXVN:TYK) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to TSX and will trade under the same ticker symbol.

  • Federal Banking Agencies Evaluating FASB's Accounting Proposals

    Date 15/09/2008

    The federal banking agencies are evaluating the amendments to generally accepted accounting principles proposed today by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

  • Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes To The S&P Global 100 Index

    Date 15/09/2008

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P Global 100 Index effective after the close of trading on September 19, 2008. Xstrata PLC (Great Britain, SEDOL: 3141100, GICS Code: 15104020) will replace Nortel Networks Corp (Canada, SEDOL: B1H4Y76, GICS Code: 45201020) in the S&P Global 100. As of September 8, 2008, Nortel Networks Corp had a float-adjusted market capitalization of US$2,839,842,576, ranking it the smallest company in the index, and falling well below th

  • FTSEurofirst Index Review - September 2008 (Updated Release)

    Date 15/09/2008

    FTSE Group, the global index provider, and Euronext, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, today announce the results of the FTSEurofirst Index Series annual review.

  • Home Builder's Former CEO To Pay More Than $7 Million For Stock Options Backdating

    Date 15/09/2008

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former chairman and CEO of Los Angeles-based home builder KB Home, Inc., for his participation in a multi-year scheme to backdate stock options to himself and other company officers and employees, depriving investors of accurate information about executive compensation at the company.

  • First Coverage Signs GSA Capital As 50th Buy-Side Firm - First Coverage Users Now Represent Over USD $2 Trillion AUM

    Date 15/09/2008

    First Coverage Inc., a leading provider of financial information management solutions, announced today that it has signed London and Hong Kong-based $2.7 billion hedge fund GSA Capital Partners LLP as its 50th investment management customer. Developed by the founders of First Call and Street Events, First Coverage now serves a client base that manages more than USD $2 trillion in assets and includes three of the top 10 institutions worldwide.

  • NSX Comment Letter On Proposed Order Approving Market Data Fee Proposal

    Date 15/09/2008

    NSX filed a comment letter on September 9, 2008, in response to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed order that would approve a proposal by NYSEArca to establish fees for certain market data that NYSEArca previously made available without charge.