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Taiwan Stock Exchange Major Statistics And Economic Indicators

Date 22/05/2006

Click here to download Taiwan Stock Exchange major statistics and economic indicators for April 2006.

Statement By Euronext In Advance Of Annual General Meeting - Euronext: NYSE Currently Seen As Most Attractive Combination

Date 22/05/2006

The Supervisory Board of Euronext met this afternoon in preparation for the Annual General Meeting of shareholders tomorrow.

SGX Offers Open-Access Hub For Post-Trade Services

Date 22/05/2006

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is pleased to introduce an innovative open-access hub, SGX Prime, for brokers, depository agents and other market participants to engage in post-trade services. Scheduled for roll-out by end of 2006, SGX Prime serves as a centralised and flexible hub, offering a choice of connectivity options to SGX clearing and depository systems.

SEC Orders Crowell, Weedon To Comply With Anti-Money Laundering Law

Date 22/05/2006

In its first-ever enforcement action under the USA PATRIOT Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has sanctioned Los Angeles broker-dealer Crowell, Weedon & Co. for failing properly to document its customer identification program. The USA PATRIOT Act seeks to protect the U.S. financial system from money laundering and terrorist financing by, among other things, requiring broker-dealers to implement and document identity verification procedures for all new accounts.

OMX Signs Contract With Dubai Financial Market To Deliver New Trading System

Date 22/05/2006

OMX, a leading expert in the exchange industry, has signed a contract with Dubai Financial Market, DFM, in the United Arab Emirates, to provide a new trading system in order to enhance DFM’s IT infrastructure.

NYSE Group, Inc. Proposes Historic Business Combination With Euronext N.V. - NYSE Euronext Will Be A Truly Global Marketplace

Date 22/05/2006

“On behalf of the NYSE Group Board of Directors, I would like to thank the leadership of Euronext  for the time spent to discuss and consider this historic business combination, which will transform the global financial marketplace. This transaction will produce significant synergies, outstanding value and growth opportunities, as well as tremendous benefits to all of our stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, issuers and investors.”

NASDAQ Introduces New Data Product With Ability To Measure "Electronic Market Noise" - Market Analytix Designed To Give Investors Equal Access To Unique Market Insight

Date 22/05/2006

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced it has unveiled NASDAQ Market Velocity, a real time product that detects the level of market activity in NASDAQ stocks and alerts traders to events before they appear in price and volume information. Market Velocity is one of four products included in NASDAQ Market AnalytixTM (NASDAQ MAXTM), a package of real-time and near-real-time data products that provide a new level of transparency to trading activity in NASDAQ trading systems.

London Stock Exchange Group Return Of Capital

Date 22/05/2006

B SHARE ELECTIONS As announced on 17 February 2006, the Board of the London Stock Exchange Group plc is making a return of capital of approximately £510 million to shareholders by way of an issue of B shares via a Court approved scheme of arrangement. As part of the return of capital, shareholders were given three choices as to how to receive their Return: Initial B share dividend - a single dividend of 200 pence per B share; Initial redemption - i

London Stock Exchange Group Holding(s) In Company - NASDAQ Stock Market

Date 22/05/2006

London Stock Exchange Group plc received the following letter on 22 May 2006 from Nightingale Acquisition Limited a subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.

LME To Extend Plastics Shelf-Life And Introduce Additional Prompt Dates

Date 22/05/2006

On the anniversary of the launch of its plastics futures contracts, The London Metal Exchange (LME) is announcing a number of enhancements to the contracts. These include the extension of the material shelf-life and the introduction of additional prompt dates to supplement the current single monthly prompt date system.