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CBOT Board Sets Annual Meeting Date - Elects Not To Pursue Organized Sale

Date 22/02/2006

CBOT Holdings, Inc., parent company of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®), one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, announced today that its Board of Directors has set Tuesday, May 2, 2006 as the date for its Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The record date for the Annual Meeting will be March 22, 2006.

CBOE Announces Strategic Alliance With Hedgestreet Inc. - World's Largest Options Exchange And Innovative Online Trading Market Join Forces

Date 22/02/2006

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, and HedgeStreet Inc., the newly designated U.S. exchange for binary options and futures, announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance for the joint development of new products, sharing of technology services, and marketing and support of HedgeStreet's innovative binary options and futures products, known as Hedgelets.

BME Spanish Exchanges: Creation Of The Mercado Alternativo Bursátil - Trials On The New System Will Begin On 27th February

Date 22/02/2006

Antonio Giralt and Jesús González Nieto are appointed Chairman and Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the market, respectively. Antonio Gallego and Manuel Ardanza were appointed members of the Board

Axiss Australia a2a Newsletter Issue 128, 22 February 2006

Date 22/02/2006

a2a e-newsletter is a the fortnightly bulletin compiled by Axiss Australia. a2a provides a summary of key events in Australia's financial services industry and their implications for Australia's position as a global financial services centre. Axiss Australia is a division of Invest Australia, the national inward investment agency. Please click

American Stock Exchange Reports Increase In Short Interest

Date 22/02/2006

The American Stock Exchange (Amex) member and non-member organizations today reported short interest of 836,516,337 shares as of the February 15, 2006 settlement date, an increase of 76,280,147 from the 760,236,190 (adjusted) shares reported in mid-January. The February figure represents trades through February 10, 2006.

Actively Managed Canadian Equity Funds Continue To Lag Indices In 2005, Says S&P - Latest SPIVA Report For Canada Shows Actively Managed Canadian Small-Cap Funds Fare Better

Date 22/02/2006

Actively managed mutual funds in the Canadian and U.S. equity categories continued to lag their respective benchmarks (the S&P/TSX Composite Index and S&P 500 Index) in 2005, Standard & Poor's said today. According to the Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) for Canada, the S&P/TSX Composite Index outperformed 87.1% of actively managed Canadian equity funds in 2005, while the S&P 500 Index (measured in Canadian dollars) outperformed 57.8% of U.S. equity funds. Activel

Tokyo Stock Exchange Number Of Orders And Executions

Date 21/02/2006

Current Number of Orders and Executions Date

Tokyo Financial Exchange Trading Of Interest Rate Etc. Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 28 February 2006

Date 21/02/2006

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 28 February 2006, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am.

The Oscars 2006: Performance Of The Dow Jones Media Titans 30 vs. Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 vs. Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index

Date 21/02/2006

Hollywood is celebrating the 78th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony on March 5, 2005. The Dow Jones Media Titans Index tracks the industry and thus the financial impact of movies like the blockbusters.

SWIFT Awards The New SWIFTReady Label To Volanté Technologies

Date 21/02/2006

VOLANTÉ TECHNOLOGIES, INC., the leading provider of platform independent data management solutions to Financial Services Industry announced today that SWIFT has conferred upon it the SWIFTReady Messaging Library certification. Volanté’s products which run in J2EE and .NET environments are applicable to a wide variety of solutions used by the financial services industry including payments, corporate actions, market data and trade processing.