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NASD Charges H&R Block Financial Advisors With Fraud in Sale of Enron Bonds To Hundreds Of Customers - Bond Sales Just Before Enron Collapse Cost Customers Millions Of Dollars

Date 08/11/2004

NASD has charged H&R Block Financial Advisors, Inc., with fraud in the sale of millions of dollars worth of Enron Corporation bonds after Enron’s finances, and its bond ratings, had begun to collapse.
London Stock Exchange: Collins Stewart Joins Proquote As A Retail Service Provider

Date 08/11/2004

The London Stock Exchange today announced that Proquote, its market data and trading terminal business, has signed up Collins Stewart, one of the UK’s leading independent stockbroking firms, as a Retail Service Provider (RSP). Collins Stewart will provide equity trading and price quotation services to Proquote clients.
JSE Securities Exchange South Africa Weekly Statistics For The Week Ended 05.11.2004

Date 08/11/2004

Attached is the weekly report of certain trading statistics. It must be noted that the statistics relevant to foreign transactions only represent transactions executed through the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa.
ISE Allocates NDX And MNX Index Options

Date 08/11/2004

The International Securities Exchange (ISE) said that it has allocated options on Nasdaq-100 (NDX) and Mini Nasdaq-100 (MNX) indexes.
Inticom Listed On The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB)- IPO In The Prime Standard - First Price Determination On Xetra

Date 08/11/2004

Inticom Systems AG went public in the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB) on Monday. The announcement was made by Deutsche Börse AG, as operator of the FWB. Inticom’s shares were initially priced at €18.40. Lead manager of the issue was Concord Effekten.

Index Options On The NASDAQ-100 And Mini NASDAQ-100 To List On Multiple Markets

Date 08/11/2004

The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ® ; OTCBB:NDAQ), today announced that options on the NASDAQ-100 Index® (NDX) and Mini NASDAQ-100 Index (MNX) will be multi-listed and electronic for the first time beginning in February 2005. The American Stock Exchange (Amex), the Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE) and the International Securities Exchange (ISE) have secured licenses to list these options.
Deutsche Börse: Porsche Accepts The Futility Of Its Case - Porsche Withdraws Listing Application For Prime Standard - Quarterly Reporting An Accepted Standard In Investor Protection

Date 08/11/2004

Porsche AG withdrew its application for admission to the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB ) on Monday. The company will therefore remain in the General Standard of the official market of the FWB. Deutsche Börse emphasized that the Prime Standard would be an option for Porsche if the company were to meet the transparency standards. This corroborates Deutsche Börse’s practice of demanding the publication of quarterly reports in the Prime Standard, in which companies must fulfil
Deutsche Börse Lifts Quarterly Earnings Year-On-Year - Q3 EBIT Climbs To €109.8 Million - €347 Million Sales Revenue - Positive Business Development In Clearstream And Information Services - Sharp Increase In Earnings In Information Technology And Informa

Date 08/11/2004

Deutsche Börse AG continued to increase earnings year-on-year in the third quarter. At €109.8 million, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) were up on Q3/2003 (€109.1 million). Sales revenue totalled € 347.1 million (Q3/2003: €362.9 million) and the company generated a further €15.9 million from net interest income from the banking business in the third quarter. Looking at the year as a whole, the company’s sales revenue of €1,085.2 billion during the first nine months is up around 2 percen
Copenhagen Stock Exchange Increases Financial Results By 22 Per Cent On 2003

Date 08/11/2004

Today, the Copenhagen Stock Exchange published its Q3 interim report for 2004, which shows a consolidated profit after tax of DKK 54.5 million for the first nine months of the year, up from DKK 44.8 million in the same period in 2003. Operating profit for the first nine months of the year totalled DKK 73.7 million, which corresponds to a rise of just under 26 per cent.
Computershare Signs Swx Swiss Exchange

Date 08/11/2004

Computershare Markets Technology announced today an agreement with the SWX Swiss Exchange to supply Computershare’s X-stream central exchange trading platform to significantly enhance their trading capacity in quotedriven product segments.