FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

News Centre

News

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Deliverable Bonds And Conversion Factors Of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) As Of June 10, 2005

Date 10/06/2005

The deliverable bonds and conversion factors of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) can be accessed by clicking here and here.
The Spanish Exchanges Launch The IBEX Medium Cap® And IBEX Small Cap® Indices

Date 10/06/2005

The indices, which will be replicable and investable, will be calculated as of July 1st. BME will host the first Medium and Small Capitalisation Companies Forum The Spanish Stock Exchanges, integrated into the BME Group, will launch two new investable indices - IBEX MEDIUM CAP® and IBEX SMALL CAP® - which will track the performance of medium and small capitalisation companies. The calculation and real time dissemination of the new indices will start as from July, 1st.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Composite Index

Date 10/06/2005

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Friday, June 17, 2005 the relative weights of the companies in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices will be adjusted. The relative weight changes reflect the quarterly updates to the float shares of constituent companies. Changes to the indices are in accordance with S&P/TSX Composite Index Maintenance Policies.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Semi-Annual Reconstitution Poor’s/Barra Growth And Value Indices

Date 10/06/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make its semi-annual changes to the S&P 500/Barra Growth, S&P 500/Barra Value, S&P MidCap 400/Barra Growth, S&P MidCap 400/Barra Value, S&P SmallCap 600/Barra Growth and S&P SmallCap 600/Barra Value indices after the close of trading on Friday, June 17, 2005. On September 16, 2005, the S&P/Barra Growth and Value indices and their S&P parent indices will transition in their entirety to a full float market capitalization-weighted structure. The S&P/Barra Growth and Value ind
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 10/06/2005

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes as a result of the Quarterly S&P/TSX Composite Index Review. These changes will be effective after the close of business on Friday, June 17, 2005

SET Overhauls Its Research & Information Efforts, Feeding More Research Into The Market, Improving The Quality Of The Fundamental Data, And Setting A Strategy To Raise The SET’s Profiles In International Markets

Date 10/06/2005

Senior Vice President of the SET Mr. Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, Ph.D., who oversees the Research & Information Division, announced that the division will play a key role in supporting and encouraging related parties both within and outside of the SET, including investors, to utilize analytical information based upon facts in making their investment decisions.
Securities Industry Association Forms Senior Advisory Council To Guide Industry’s International Efforts - CSFB’s Richard Thornburgh To Chair Group

Date 10/06/2005

The Securities Industry Association has formed an International Advisory Council to provide SIA’s board and International Committee with guidance on the World Trade Organization Financial Services Negotiations, The U.S.-E.U. Financial Markets Dialogue and other issues affecting the international capital markets. Key to the Council’s mission of eliminating barriers that impede U.S. financial services companies’ access to investment opportunities abroad will be opening an ongoing dialogue with go
SEC Charges A Second Former Gen Re Executive For Aiding In AIG Securities Fraud

Date 10/06/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has charged a second senior executive of General Re Corporation, Richard Napier, for his role in aiding and abetting a securities fraud committed by American International Group, Inc. In an amended complaint filed today in federal court in Manhattan, the Commission added Napier as a defendant in the action it instituted on June 6, 2005, against John Houldsworth, a former Gen Re executive and former CEO of a Gen Re subsidiary, Cologne
Quarterly Share Rebalancing In The S&P ADR Index - Amended

Date 10/06/2005

Quarterly Share Rebalancing In The S&P ADR Index - Amended Below is the complete list of changes to be made to the S&P ADR Index at the close of business on June 10, 2005: Millea Holdings, Inc. (ADR) (Japan, NASDAQ: MLEA, CUSIP: 606816106, Sedol: 2747327) IWF will change to 0.91 from 1. Had this and all other announced changes occurred on June 9, 2005, the index weight of Millea Holdings, Inc. would have changed to 0.418% from 0.443%. Mitchells & Butlers PLC (ADR) (Great Brit
Quarterly Share Rebalancing In The S&P ADR Index - Amended

Date 10/06/2005

In addition to those changes announced on June 7, 2005, the following change will be effective after the close of trading on Friday, June 10, 2005: