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Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Canola Futures Prices Continue Downward Trend

Date 09/03/2005

Canola futures prices at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange continued their downward trend during the month of Janu-ary.The March 2005 contract closed the month at $252.20 per metric tonne,down $20.40 from December 31.The nearby contract has not traded this low since November 2000.Slow demand and the large supply of canola in Western Canada and large supplies of canola/ rapeseed and other oil crops worldwide have continued to be a bearish influence.On February 2nd,Statistics Canada reported Canadia
Tokyo Stock Exchange Monthly Quotations – February 2005

Date 09/03/2005

Monthly Quotations will be available on the 7th working day of the following month. * Some items are written in both Japanese and English (Japanese might be unreadable). Click here for full details.
Testimony Of Martin Doyle, President, OneChicago LLC Hearing On CFTC Reauthorization, March 9, 2005 Before The House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee On General Farm Commodities And Risk Management

Date 09/03/2005

Marty Doyle, President of OneChicago, testified before a House subcommittee today on the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA), which lifted the 20-year ban and authorized the trading of security futures.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes To U.S. Investable Weight Factors And Final Float Transition Schedule

Date 09/03/2005

Standard & Poor's today publishes revised investable weight factors for three companies in the S&P 500 and one company in the S&P SmallCap 600, and provides a detailed schedule of changes surrounding the first step in moving its U.S. indices to float adjustment.
Spencer Barasch, Head Of Enforcement For The SEC's Fort Worth Office, To Leave The Commission

Date 09/03/2005

The SEC announced today that Spencer C. Barasch will leave the Commission in April to become a partner in the Dallas office of the law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP. For the past seven years, as the senior enforcement official in the Commission's Fort Worth Office, Barasch has led the Commission's enforcement program in a four state area of the Southwest. Before that, he held various other positions in the Commission, including Assistant Director in the Commission's Southeast Office in Miami, Fla.

Securities Industry Association: Keep The ‘Self’ In Self-Regulation - SIA Offers Recommendations For Addressing Shortcomings Without Losing Key Benefits Of Self-Regulation

Date 09/03/2005

The Securities Industry Association today called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to focus its efforts at self-regulatory reform on preserving the key benefits of self-regulation, while addressing its shortcomings. In a comment letter filed today on the SEC’s SRO Governance and Transparency Proposal and SRO Concept Release, SIA made several specific recommendations for enhancing and improving self-regulation.
SEC Charges Two Friends Of Former ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal With Insider Trading

Date 09/03/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Zvi Fuks and Sabina Ben-Yehuda, two friends of the former CEO of ImClone Systems Inc., Samuel Waksal, with insider trading in ImClone securities in December 2001. The Commission charged that Ben-Yehuda and Fuks sold ImClone stock after receiving an illegal tip from Waksal just before the FDA denied approval of ImClone's cancer treatment drug.
SEC Charges Floor Clerk At NYSE With Alerting Trader To Large Orders In Return For Cash Payments

Date 09/03/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Frank J. Furino, a former clerk for a New York Stock Exchange floor broker, for his role in a fraudulent “trading ahead” scheme. Furino is charged with disclosing large, pending block orders from institutional customers to a day trader in return for cash payments between August 2000 and December 2001. The Commission alleges that the day trader traded ahead of the customer orders and profited on short-term price movements when the block order w
Results Of LME Shareholder Representative Elections Announced

Date 09/03/2005

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today confirmed the election results for shareholder representative directors to the board of LME Holdings Limited, effective from 1 April 2005.
Record Monthly Trading Volume For Euronext.liffe White Sugar Futures

Date 09/03/2005

Euronext.liffe’s White Sugar Futures contract set a new monthly volume record of 155,706 contracts in February 2005, breaking the previous record of 153,122 contracts set in September 2004.