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Statement By SEC Chairman Christopher Cox: Opening Statement At The Commission Open Meeting

Date 14/06/2007

Good morning. This is a meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission conducted under the Government in the Sunshine Act on June 13, 2007. Today, we consider three recommendations from the Division of Market Regulation related to short selling.
KCBT Exchange And Electronic Volume Set New Single-Day Records, 11-Year Price High

Date 14/06/2007

The Kansas City Board of Trade set a new single-day volume record for the exchange as a whole and for electronic trading on Wednesday. The KCBT also put in new contract highs across the board, with prices at an 11-year high as the KCBT March 2008 contract traded up to $6.20 a bushel.
SEC Charges Securities Attorneys In Penny Stock Scam

Date 14/06/2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed suit against the principals of a micro-cap technology company as well as two securities lawyers for their role in an illegal "pump and dump" scheme. The Commission alleges that Arizona attorney David B. Stocker and Texas attorney Phillip W. Offill, Jr. assisted Michigan-based AVL Global, Inc., in a scheme to dump millions of shares of AVL Global stock into the marketplace without any public disclosure of the company's failing operations. In the
Program Trading Averaged 32.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During June 4-8

Date 14/06/2007

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 June 4-8.
CBOT Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Wednesday, June 13

Date 14/06/2007

Daily: Wheat - Futures and Options Electronic Volume Record New Record: 99,382 Jun 13, 2007 Old Record: 94,117 Apr 19, 2007 Daily: Wheat - Futures Electronic Volume Record New Record: 99,207 Jun 13, 2007 Old Record: 93,617 Apr 19, 2007 Daily: 30 Year Interest Rate Swaps - Futures Total Volume Record New Record: 558 Jun 13, 2007 Old Record: 529 Jun 6, 2007 Daily: 3

Financial Journalists Successful At Taking SWX Trader Examination

Date 14/06/2007

For the second time now since 2004 (see http://www.swx.com/media_releases/2004/media 2004 1025 _ en.pdf)the SWX Swiss Exchange has offered interested financial journalists the cost-free opportunity to participate in the training course for the SWX trader examination as well as to take the actual test. Once again the offer provoked great interest - in the past several weeks, one female journalist and six male journalists
NYSE Regulation, Inc. Announces Disciplinary Actions Against Five Firms, 21 Individuals

Date 14/06/2007

This is NYSE Regulation, Inc.'s Disciplinary Actions announcement for June 2007.
CBOT Holdings Board Determines Revised ICE Proposal Not Superior, Reaffirms Recommendation Of CME Merger Agreement

Date 14/06/2007

CBOT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BOT) today announced that its Board of Directors and special committees have carefully reviewed the revised proposal from IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE) and concluded that it is not superior to the revised CME merger agreement announced earlier today.
CME And CBOT Revise Merger Agreement To Provide Increased Value To CBOT Shareholders - Agreement Delivers One-Time Cash Dividend To All CBOT Shareholders And Guarantee For Holders Of CBOE Exercise Rights

Date 14/06/2007

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE/Nasdaq: CME) and CBOT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BOT) today announced that they have revised the terms of their merger agreement to provide additional value to all CBOT Holdings shareholders and a guarantee for holders of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) exercise right privileges (ERP). The revised agreement has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
NYBOT Sets Second Exchange-Wide And Electronic Volume Records This Week - Electronically Traded Cotton Futures Also Achieve New High

Date 14/06/2007

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, announced that for the second time this week, its New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) subsidiary set exchange-wide and electronic volume records. NYBOT also established a new record in electronically traded Cotton No. 2SM futures.