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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.
In The Nearest Future, The Bank Of Russia Will Begin To Provide Collateral Credits Using The MICEX Trading System

Date 28/02/2007

The Bank of Russia and the MICEX Settlement House have signed an agreement of cooperation, under which the two organizations will interact in providing credits of the Bank of Russia to lending institutions. This will enable to organize, through the MICEX SH, the service of collateral crediting transactions concluded in accordance with the Statute of the Bank of Russia #236-P of 4 August 2003 “On the Order of Providing the Bank of Russia’s Credits to Lending Institutions, Covered by Collateral
ISE Announces Record Daily Trading Volume

Date 28/02/2007

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) announced that it set a new record daily trading volume of 5,531,875 equity and index options contracts on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. ISE is pleased to report that its highly reliable and scalable trading platform effectively handled almost one million more contracts than the previous record of 4,580,678 contracts, set on January 20, 2006.