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Securities And Exchange Commission Announces Additional Speaker And Panelists For March 19 Roundtable: Creating Interactive Data To Serve Investors - The Corporate Library CEO Richard Bennett To Address Event

Date 15/03/2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today panelists participating in the March 19 SEC roundtable on the use of interactive data by public companies and mutual funds to improve disclosure for individual investors. The Commission also announced that, following the panel discussion, Richard A. Bennett, CEO of The Corporate Library, will discuss the role that interactive data will play in supporting good governance at public companies.
CBOT Holdings Receives Unsolicited Proposal From ICE

Date 15/03/2007

CBOT Holdings, Inc., holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) (NYSE: BOT), one of the leading global derivatives exchanges, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal letter from Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE). The letter states that ICE proposes to merge with CBOT Holdings in a transaction in which holders of CBOT Holdings Class A common stock would receive 1.42 shares of ICE Class A common stock for each share of CBOT Holdings Class A common
SEC Settles With Former Raytheon Officers For Improper Disclosure And Accounting Practices - Former CFO, Controller, And Subsidiary CFO Agree To Pay Over $1.5 Million In Disgorgement And Penalties

Date 15/03/2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against three former financial officers of Raytheon Company and one of its subsidiaries. The SEC charged that they were each involved in or aware of certain improper accounting practices that operated as a fraud by failing to adequately and accurately disclose the deteriorating financial results and business of Raytheon's commercial aircraft manufacturing subsidiary. The SEC also charged
CBOT® Mini-Sized Dow Futures<SUP>SM</SUP>set Daily Volume Record As Total Surpasses 329,000 - Exchange Also Sets Volume Record Across Entire Equity Index Complex

Date 15/03/2007

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that trading of its $5 mini-sized Dow JonesSM futures contract set a record on Wednesday, as volume climbed to 329,848 contracts. The previous record, 321,616 contracts, was set on February 27, 2007.
Speech By SEC Chairman: Remarks To The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's First Annual Capital Markets Summit: Securing America's Competitiveness

Date 15/03/2007

It is a pleasure to join a star-studded lineup that includes Chairman Dodd, Chairman Frank, Chairman Olson, and Chairman Schapiro today. (It is beginning to appear that no one has been invited who is not a Chairman.)

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading Eleven New Options On Friday, March 16

Date 15/03/2007

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin to trade eleven new options on March 16, 2007.
Program Trading Averaged 31.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Mar. 5-9

Date 15/03/2007

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 Mar. 5-9.
Borsa Italiana New Board Director

Date 15/03/2007

The Board of Directors of Borsa Italiana, held today, coopted Nicola D’Anselmo as Member of the Board in place of resigning Riccardo Lupi and invited the CEO, Massimo Capuano, to continue the analysis regarding the stake owned by Borsa Italiana in MBE Holding, that owns 60,37% of MTS, updating the Board.
S&P/MIB Methodology

Date 15/03/2007

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Paul Saltzman, COO Of eSpeed, Inc., Appointed Secretary And Treasurer Of The Institute For Financial Markets

Date 15/03/2007

Paul Saltzman, Chief Operating Officer of eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD), a leading developer of electronic marketplaces and trading technology for the global capital markets, has been appointed Secretary and Treasurer for The Institute for Financial Markets (IFM) where he already sits on the board of trustees.