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  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading Nineteen New Options On Wednesday, February 7

    Date 06/02/2007

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin to trade nineteen new options on February 7, 2007. All but one of the following options were allocated to Citadel Derivatives Trading Group LLC: Technitrol, Inc (option/stock symbol: TNL) will trade on the January expiration cycle with initial expiration months of February, March, April and July. Position and exercise limits have been set at 75,000 contracts. Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. (option/stock sy

  • TSX Block List Leaders<SUP>TM</SUP> For January 2007

    Date 06/02/2007

    Here are the TSX Block List LeadersTM for January 2007. Block trades are large trades with a volume of 10,000 shares or more and a value of $100,000 or more. The TSX Block List Leaders list shows the top ten brokers chosen by their customers to execute these significant block trades on Toronto Stock Exchange. The leaders are measured by volume and value of blocks traded.

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

    Date 06/02/2007

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) has completed the acquisition of Western Areas Limited (JSE:WARJ). The relative weight of Gold Fields Limited will increase in the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index to reflect the issuance of shares as part of the transaction, which will be effective after the close of Tuesday, February 13, 2007.

  • GL TRADE Reports Turnover Of €185m For 2006

    Date 06/02/2007

    GL TRADE, the global provider of integrated, multi-market software solutions for financial institutions, generated turnover of €185m in 2006, a 3% increase on the previous year.

  • Reinsurer RenaissanceRe Settles Securities Fraud Charges For Sham Reinsurance Transaction - Company To Pay $15 Million Penalty And Retain Independent Consultant

    Date 06/02/2007

    The Securities and Exchange Commission filed settled securities fraud charges against RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (RenRe), a property catastrophe reinsurance company, for creating a sham reinsurance transaction that had no economic substance and no purpose other than to smooth and defer over $26 million of earnings from 2001 to 2002 and 2003. In effect, the transaction enabled RenRe to create a "cookie jar" into which it put excess revenue in one good year, to be pulled out in a future year to i