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Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes To The S&P/HKEx GEM Index

Date 28/02/2007

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/HKEx GEM Index. The adjustments involve share and IWF changes and will become effective after the close of trading on Wednesday March 7, 2007. FAVA International Holdings Ltd. will increase its index shares from 426,400,000 to 601,400,000 and change IWF from 0.7404 to 0.7856 due to a placement of existing shares and issue of new stock. Century Sunshine Ecological Technology Holdings will increase its index shares from 2
DGCX Volumes Set A New High – 7634 Contracts Traded

Date 28/02/2007

DGCX set a new record yesterday for the highest number of contracts traded per day since inception. A total of 7634 contracts valued at $206.76 million were traded surpassing the previous record of 6954 contracts achieved on January 3, 2007. The gold futures traded on the Exchange clocked their highest-ever traded volume in a day at 6988 contracts. Precious metals closed lower on Tuesday marking a pause to the ongoing rally on concerns that China's demand for commodities may weaken and as US
Changes To SICOM's Initial And Maintenance Margins

Date 28/02/2007

Please be advised that the margin levels for RSS1, RSS3 and TSR20 have been changed with immediate effect. For more details, please refer to the following circular.
IntercontinentalExchange CEO Jeffrey C. Sprecher Joins Energy Security Leadership Council

Date 28/02/2007

Jeffrey C. Sprecher, founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), has joined the Energy Security Leadership Council (Council), a project of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE).
CBOT Sets All-Time Record For Daily Trading Volume As Total Tops 11 Million Contracts - Exchange’s Electronic Volume Sets Daily Record With 8.8 Million Contracts

Date 28/02/2007

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that it set an all-time record for trading volume Tuesday, as total Exchange volume surpassed 11 million contracts. The new CBOT volume record, 11,196,830 contracts, was 44 percent better than the previous all-time record, 7,791,833 contracts, set on November 28, 2006.

SEC Charges Former General Counsel Of McAfee, Inc. For Fraudulently Re-Pricing Option Grants

Date 28/02/2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Kent H. Roberts, the former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of McAfee, Inc., with securities fraud for wrongfully re-pricing McAfee stock option grants awarded to him and others in an effort to secretly increase the value of the grants. The Commission's complaint alleges that Roberts, secretly and without authorization, changed the grant date of a February 2000 grant made to him in order to take advantage of McAfee's then-declining
NYMEX Sets Daily Volume Record For Metals Futures On CME Globex®

Date 28/02/2007

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NMX), announced today that it set daily volume records for gold and silver futures contracts on the CME Globex electronic trading platform yesterday.
CME Sets New Total Daily Volume Record Of 13.7 Million Contracts - Electronic Trading, Equity Index Contracts And Electronic Eurodollar Futures Also Hit Record Highs

Date 28/02/2007

CME, the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange, announced multiple volume records were reached at the exchange yesterday, including total daily volume of 13,719,685 futures and options traded*, of which a record 10,926,638 contracts were traded electronically on CME Globex,(R) representing 80 percent of the total volume.
SEC Chairman Names Jonathan Burks As Director Of Office Of Legislative And Intergovernmental Affairs

Date 28/02/2007

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that Jonathan W. Burks will join the Commission as Director of the newly designated Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
System Problem Caused Lag In Timely Calculation Of Dow Jones Industrial Average For 70 Minutes Yesterday - Normal Operation Expected Today

Date 28/02/2007

Dow Jones Indexes today explained that a system problem beginning at 1:50 pm yesterday amid unusually heavy volume caused the 70-minute lag in correctly calculating the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the subsequent downward spike in the reported index value when the problem was corrected at 3:00 pm.