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15 Broker-Dealer Firms Settle SEC Charges Involving Violative Practices In The Auction Rate Securities Market - Firms Ordered To Cease And Desist And To Pay Over $13 Million In Penalties

Date 31/05/2006

Today the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the institution of proceedings against 15 broker-dealer firms for engaging in violative practices in the $200 billion plus auction rate securities market. Auction rate securities are municipal bonds, corporate bonds or preferred stocks with interest rates or dividend yields that are periodically re-set through Dutch auctions. Simultaneously with the institution of the proceedings, the firms, which neither admit nor deny the findings in the o
TSE And Tata Consultancy Services Cooperate In Delivering Corporate Action Data

Date 30/05/2006

TSE will start distribution of corporate action data from TSE's Tokyo Market Information service directly to end users of NCS Corporate Action (NCS), a product of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). TCS is the leading information technology service organization based in India and delivering services around the world.
Share Change For Macquarie Goodman Group Ltd In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 30/05/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Friday, June 2, 2006: Macquarie Goodman Group Ltd (Australia, SEDOL: B03FYZ4, GICS Code: 40401010), a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index, will increase its shares to 1,496,931,409. This change is the result of a distribution reinvestment plan.
SGX Strengthens Corporate Governance Structure

Date 30/05/2006

Changes have been made to the Securities and Futures (Corporate Governance of Approved Exchanges, Designated Clearing Houses and Approved Holding Companies) Regulations 2005 (“SFR 2005”) and the Singapore Code of Corporate Governance 2005 (“the Code”), which deal largely with the independence requirements of the Board of Directors.
Securities Industry Congratulates Newly Appointed U.S.A. Treasury Secretary Paulson

Date 30/05/2006

Marc Lackritz, President of the Securities Industry Association (SIA), today congratulated Goldman Sachs’ Chairman Henry Paulson, who was nominated this morning by President Bush to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow.

SEC Brings Settled Charges Against Tribune Company For Reporting Inflated Circulation Figures And Misstating Circulation Revenues

Date 30/05/2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged publisher Tribune Company with reporting falsified circulation figures from at least January 2002 to March 2004 for two of its newspapers in New York, Newsday and the Spanish-language Hoy. The Commission issued an order finding that Tribune failed to uncover Newsday and Hoy's inflated circulation figures because it lacked sufficient internal controls to detect the schemes at those papers.
S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index Expands Pricing Coverage - Eight Dealers Now Providing Pricing Information To Canada’s First Independent Fixed-Income Index

Date 30/05/2006

Standard & Poor’s, the world’s leading index provider, today announced that Desjardins Securities Inc. will begin contributing bond pricing for the calculation of the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index beginning June 2, 2006.
Professor Yair E Orgler To Step Down As Chairman Tel Aviv Stock Exchange - Saul Bronfeld To Be New Chairman

Date 30/05/2006

Professor Yair E Orgler steps down as chairman of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange at the end of May 2006, after serving the maximum period allowed by the Israel Securities Law.
New York Mercantile Exchange To Change Margins For Platinum, Aluminum Futures Contracts

Date 30/05/2006

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for its platinum and aluminum futures contracts, beginning at the close of business tomorrow.
NASD Hearing Panel Bars Municipal Securities Broker For Fraudulent Sales Practices - Founder Of California Firm Ordered To Repurchase Bonds, Pay Restitution To Customers

Date 30/05/2006

An NASD Hearing Panel has barred Marshall J. Field of Woodland Hills, CA, from the securities industry for fraudulent sales of municipal securities and for making unauthorized transactions in customer accounts.