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Global Financial Groups Build Investment Strategies For Brazil And Competition Will Raise, Says Expert During Seminar At BM&F

Date 09/10/2006

Global financial groups have already included Brazil as an investment opportunity and are preparing to act in local markets, directly or through affiliations with qualified partners. Brazilian brokerage houses will have to adopt a Business Plan and qualify themselves in order to face competition and the demands from new investors entering the domestic market. These were some of the themes discussed by Professor William Handorf, from George Washington University and director and chairman of the F
Marianne C. Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Securities Industry Automation Corporation, Announces Resignation To Assume New Role

Date 09/10/2006

Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) Chief Executive Officer Marianne C. Brown has submitted her resignation to the SIAC board of directors, effective October 20, in order to assume a senior management position with an undisclosed corporation. Upon her departure, Jerry Putnam, SIAC Chairman and President and co-Chief Operating Officer, NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) will assume the role of interim CEO and Thomas Demchak, Senior Vice President, will become Chief Operating Officer.
KCBT Raises Minimum Margins For Wheat Contract - Margins Increased For Hard Red Winter Wheat Futures Contract

Date 09/10/2006

The Kansas City Board of Trade has raised its minimum margins for wheat futures contracts. In addition, spread trades have been separated into two categories: intra-crop year spread and old crop/new crop spread.
NYSE Introduces The First Indexes Based On NYSE-Listed IPOs And Spin-Offs - Indexes Tracking Unique Growth Of New Listings On The NYSE

Date 09/10/2006

NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) announced the recent launch of the NYSE IPOX Composite (NYSE: IPO.ID) and NYSE IPOX U.S. Indexes (NYSE: IPY.ID), which provide investors with transparent and systematic exposure to recent initial public offerings (IPOs) and spin-offs listed on the NYSE. Based on a modified market capitalization weighted methodology measuring the average performance of domestic and international new issues, the NYSE IPO Indexes employ unbiased entrance and exit rules based on the ind
Regulation Of Commodity Markets - Speech By Hector Sants, Managing Director, Wholesale & Institutional Markets, UK's Financial Services Authority, LME Annual Metals Seminar, 9 October 2006

Date 09/10/2006

Introduction Good morning ladies and gentlemen. First may I say thank you to the London Metal Exchange for inviting me to speak at this conference. It is clearly timely for me to be here this year as the commodities markets have come closer to centre stage and the LME is considering its options for the future. What I want to do today is to make some remarks about the role the FSA and financial services regulation has to play in this market.

Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index

Date 09/10/2006

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index.
Share Changes For Boral Limited And Foster’s Group Limited In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 09/10/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes to the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006:
CBOT: Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Friday, October 6

Date 09/10/2006

A list of some of the Chicago Board of Trade's top daily volume and open interest records from the previous business day.
Experian Group Limited Share Amount In The S&P European Indices

Date 09/10/2006

As announced on 4 October 2006, Standard & Poor’s will add Experian Group Plc to the S&P Europe 350 and S&P United Kingdom indices, effective after the close of trading on Tuesday 10 October 2006: Experian Group Limited (United Kingdom, SEDOL: B19NLV4, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20201030) will be added to the index with 1,024,436,543 shares outstanding. The Investable Weight Factor will be 1.
ISE Announces Launch Of Second Market For Options

Date 09/10/2006

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE: ISE) today announced that trading in its Second Market for options will begin on October 16, 2006. ISE developed its Second Market to provide its members with a distinct platform that will leverage ISE's leading community of market makers and proven, competitive market structure to create additional liquidity in options that have typically experienced lower trading volumes.