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LME Completes Tender Process For Steel Price Compilers

Date 21/12/2005

The LME is now beginning the short-listing of price compilers who could work with the Exchange to develop and publish LME steel reference prices for at least six benchmark steel products. The decision on the chosen compiler(s) will be announced in the second quarter of 2006 and is part of the process through which the LME will develop price risk management tools for the steel industry.

Lawrence A. West, Associate Director Of Enforcement, To Leave Securities And Exchange Commission

Date 21/12/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Lawrence A. West, Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement, will leave the Commission. He will become a partner in the law firm Latham & Watkins, resident in the firm’s Washington office.

Helsinki Stock Exchange: Warning Issued To TJ Group Plc For Incomplete Disclosure Of Divestiture

Date 21/12/2005

The Disciplinary Committee of Helsinki Stock Exchange has issued TJ Group Plc with a warn-ing and a disciplinary fine for breaching the disclosure requirements applicable to listed com-panies. The Disciplinary Committee considered that the company had not disclosed sufficient information on a significant divestiture without undue delay in its stock exchange release is-sued on October 7, 2005.

Gregor Pozniak: Further Addition To ICMA’s Regulatory Policy Team

Date 21/12/2005

Futures And Options On RTS Stock Exchange Technical Infrastructure Transferred From St. Petersburg To Moscow

Date 21/12/2005

RTS Group has completed the process of moving FORTS market technical infrastructure from St. Petersburg Stock Exchange to RTS Group.

FTSE Global Markets – Issue 11

Date 21/12/2005

The new issue of FTSE Global Markets magazine is now available from www.ftse.com.

Copenhagen Stock Exchange No. 594 - Focus: When Share Transactions Went High-Tech

Date 21/12/2005

In Focus no. 105 issued by the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Nikolaj Hesselholt Munck M.Sc. (Economics) analyses the development in the costs of trading on the European stock markets – costs that have declined pari passu with the introduction of electronic trading systems for share transactions.

BrokerOne, The Largest Australian Futures Broker Renews And Extends Its UBIX Licence

Date 21/12/2005

GL TRADE, global provider of front-to-back office software solutions for international financial institutions, announces that Australian broker, BrokerOne Pty Limited, has chosen to renew and extend its UBIX licence for managing their complex and quickly growing trading activity.

Borsa Italiana's S&P/MIB Index Reaches New All-Time High

Date 21/12/2005

Today, S&P/MIB index reached a new all-time high (since its introduction in June 2003) with 35,803 points.

BM&F: New Board Of Governors Is elected

Date 21/12/2005

The General Meeting of Members, which took place on Thursday, December 8, elected the following members of the Board of Governors: Manoel Felix Cintra Neto (Banco Indusval Multistock), Renato Diniz Junqueira (Banco Intercap), Joaquim da Silva Ferreira (Futura), and the deputies Arnaldo David Cezar Coelho (Liquidez) and Luiz Fernando Figueiredo (Mauá Investimentos), representing the BM&F members; Álvaro Augusto Vidigal (Socopa), Nelson Bizzachi Spinelli (Spinelli), Sérgio Machado Doria (Intra) an