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CFTC Announces April 6, 2005 CPO And Commodity Pool Industry Roundtable

Date 24/03/2005

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold a roundtable on Commodity Pool Operators (CPOs) and the commodity pool industry on Wednesday, April 6, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. The roundtable is scheduled to be held in the first floor Hearing Room at the Commission’s Headquarters, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
CBOT Sets New Exchange-Wide Open Interest Record - Open Interest In Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures Rises To New All-time High

Date 24/03/2005

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that on Wednesday, March 23, Exchange-wide open interest rose to a new record of 13,809,450 contracts, exceeding the previous record of 13,735,552 contracts set on March 22.
UK’s Financial Services Authority: City Index Ltd Fined £35,000 For Misleading Financial Promotions

Date 23/03/2005

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined City Index Ltd £35,000 for producing misleading financial promotions for spread betting and contracts for differences (CFDs) between September and November 2003. The firm has also been fined for failures in its systems and controls that allowed the promotions to be distributed.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Deliverable Bonds And Conversion Factors Of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) As Of March 22, 2005

Date 23/03/2005

The deliverable bonds and conversion factors of JGB Futures (5-year & 10-year) can be accessed by clicking here and here.
Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 30 March 2005

Date 23/03/2005

TIFFE announced the temporary change of trading hours for all contracts on 30 March 2005, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am. Opening on that day Pre-open 8:30am - 8:45am (Normal days 8:45am - 9:00am) Open of morning session 8:45am (Normal days 9:00am)

Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Disciplinary Committee Warns J.P. Morgan And Lehman Brothers

Date 23/03/2005

J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd and Lehman Brothers International (Europe) have both breached the rules that state that a party who acquires 5% or more of the shares in a listed company must disclose the acquisition. Each of the two companies has acquired more than 5% of the shares in Song Network Holding AB without openly disclosing the acquisitions. Accordingly, Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Disciplinary Committee has decided to warn both companies.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Change To U.S. Index

Date 23/03/2005

Ditech Communications (NASD:DITC) will replace DuPont Photomasks (NASD:DPMI) in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on a date to be announced. S&P Global 1200 constituent Toppan Printing Co. is acquiring DuPont Photomasks in a deal that is still pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.
Share Changes For Isuzu Motors, Ltd. In The S&P Japan Smallcap 250 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 23/03/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 Indices effective after the close of trading, Wednesday March 31st, 2004:
Nymex Sets Record For Overnight Trading

Date 23/03/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that a record 70,630 contracts were traded on the NYMEX ACCESS® electronic trading platform last night, surpassing the previous record of 60,790 contracts set during an abbreviated two-hour special daytime session held on September 14, 2001, the first time the markets opened after the September 11 World Trade Center attack.
NYBOT Announces New Cocoa Margins

Date 23/03/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective with the opening of business on Thursday, March 24, 2005, the cocoa margin requirements are as follows: