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NYMEX To Change Margins For Petroleum Products Futures Contracts On NYMEX ClearPort®

Date 11/10/2006

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for some of its petroleum products futures contracts on NYMEX ClearPort®, beginning at the close of business tomorrow.
Share And Name Changes For The Australian Gas Light Company In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 11/10/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes to the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, as a result of an asset swap with Alinta Limited. The Australian Gas Light Company (SEDOL: 6064969, GICS Code: 55103010), a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index, will change its name to AGL Energy, and change its ticker code to AGK. Its shares will also decrease to 377,675,003, reflecting the cancellation of shares attributed to Alinta Limited. There wil
Real-Time Quotes Added To NYSE OpenBook® Products - Free Value-Added Feature Greatly Enhances Depth And Quality Of NYSE-Listed Market Data

Date 11/10/2006

NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today announced that it has further augmented the popular NYSE OpenBook® and OpenBook Real-Time® products with the addition of real-time NYSE quotation information. Supporting the increased speed and efficiency of the NYSE Hybrid Market®, the Exchange’s real-time quotes contain the best bid and offer available for any NYSE-listed security, reflecting not only the limit orders in OpenBook but also trading crowd and specialists’ proprietary interest.
CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) Sets New Single Day Record In Trading Of VIX Futures - Daily Volume Tops 10,000 Contracts For The First Time, Exchange Open Interest Continues To Hit New Highs

Date 11/10/2006

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) announced today that trading volume in VX futures, based on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), reached a new all-time high on Tuesday, October 10, as 10,673 contracts traded -- the first time that volume has topped the 10,000-contract mark in a single day. Yesterday's total surpassed the previous high of 9,148 contracts set on May 3, 2006.
CBOT Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Tuesday, October 10

Date 11/10/2006

A list of some of the Chicago Board of Trade's top daily volume and open interest records from the previous business day.

Keynote: UK's Leading Role In The Adoption Of International Initiatives - Speech By John Tiner, Chief Executive, UK’s Financial Services Authority, BBA 10th Annual Supervision Conference, London, 11th October 2006

Date 11/10/2006

Introduction Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to have been invited to give a keynote speech at the BBA's tenth annual supervision conference, especially in such distinguished company. I am flattered to have been asked to speak on the subject of 'the UK's leading role in the adoption of international initiatives'. I will concentrate on the FSA's role, though recognising how important it is that we work in partnership with HM Tr
Tokyo Commodity Exchange Regulations On Aluminum Warehouse Reciepts Modified

Date 11/10/2006

The aluminum contract unit will be changed from 10,000 kg to 5,000 kg per contract, effective on October 27th, 2006 (applicable from the October 2007 contract onward).
TOCOM Changes Contract Unit For Silver And Aluminum

Date 11/10/2006

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange will halve the contract units of silver, in the precious metals market, and aluminum from their current sizes (the same modification will apply to the delivery unit of silver), effective on October 27th, 2006 (applicable from the October 2007 contract). In accordance with these changes, positions limits will also be modified.
NYSE Regulation, Inc. Announces Disciplinary Actions Against Six Firms, Nine Individuals

Date 11/10/2006

This is NYSE Regulation, Inc.'s Disciplinary Actions announcement for October 2006. Here is the link to the October detail page: http://www.nyse.com/DiscAxn/discAxn_10_2006.html Link to the sortable Index page: http://www.nyse.com/DiscAxn/discAxnIndex.html
Instinet Launches Wizard Arrival Price Algorithm - New Algo Employs More Sophisticated Approach To Arrival Price Strategy, Providing Traders With An Intelligent Trading Schedule Based On Northfield Information Services’ Risk Model

Date 11/10/2006

Instinet, a global agency broker, today launched Wizard, a new arrival price algorithm that sets its trading schedule by balancing a stock’s historical and option-implied volatility risk with the estimated market impact and the trader’s short-term alpha estimate. Wizard relies on the well-known U.S. Shortterm Equity Risk Model from Northfield Information Services, one of Wall Street’s most respected providers of risk forecasting models.