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  • CFTC Designates HedgeStreet As A Contract Market And As A Registered Clearing Organization

    Date 20/02/2004

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) approved the application of HedgeStreet, Inc. (HedgeStreet) for designation as a contract market on February 18, 2004. The Commission concurrently approved HedgeStreet's application for registration as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO). HedgeStreet is a for-profit Delaware corporation, formed in 2000. HedgeStreet intends to provide its members with fully electronic, non-intermediated trading over the Internet in cash-settled, European

  • CBOT: Execs Burke, Durkin Receive ADL's Lifetime Achievement Award

    Date 20/02/2004

    Two of the Chicago Board of Trade's senior level officers--Executive Vice President & Chief of Staff Carol Burke and Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Bryan Durkin--received the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Lifetime Achievement Award at the ADL Chicago Region's Dinner Gala held in the Grand Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel on Wednesday, February 18, 2004.

  • American Stock Exchange Reports Increase In Short Interest

    Date 20/02/2004

    The American Stock Exchange (Amex) member and non-member organizations today reported short interest of 884,633,398 shares as of the February 13 settlement date, an increase of 37,648,410 from the 846,984,988 (adjusted) shares reported in mid-January. The February figure represents trades through February 10, 2004.

  • SEC: Securities Law Scholar To Answer Questions, Talk About New Book

    Date 19/02/2004

    Professor Joel Seligman, noted securities law scholar and author of the newly revised The Transformation of Wall Street, will talk about new material and answer questions in a live online program on Feb. 26, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. EST. The program - called a Fireside Chat - is sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission Society Historical Society. The Society is a non-profit organization, independent of the SEC, that preserves and shares the history and historic records of the SEC and the se

  • SEC Charges Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's Former President, Chief Executive Officer And Chief Operating Officer, With Fraud - Seeks Disgorgement Of All Ill-Gotten Gains, Including Compensation; Civil Money Penalties - A Permanent Bar From Acting As A Dir

    Date 19/02/2004

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has charged Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron Corp.'s former President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, with violating, and aiding and abetting violations of, the antifraud, lying to auditors, periodic reporting, books and records, and internal controls provisions of the federal securities laws. The charges, which amend the Commission's Complaint filed against Richard A. Causey, Enron's former Chief Accounting Officer,