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London Stock Exchange Statement Re Approach From Macquarie Bank Limited

Date 09/12/2005

The Board of London Stock Exchange plc announces that it has received a proposal from Macquarie Bank Limited about making a cash offer to acquire London Stock Exchange for 580 pence per share.
ISE Weekly Listings

Date 09/12/2005

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) listed new options classes during the week ending December 9, 2005, as described below. Tuesday, December 6, 2005 BIN 3 - Citigroup Derivatives Markets Inc. Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) will trade on a January expiration cycle with exercise and position limits of 250,000. BIN 4 - Citadel Derivatives Group LLC SFBC International, Inc. (SFCC) will trade on a March expiratio
ICMA Names Nick Collier As New Head Of Regulatory Policy

Date 09/12/2005

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Collier as the new head of its regulatory policy team, effective February 1, 2006.
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market And Services: Recent Developments In The Internal Market For Financial Services And Financial Reporting - Association Of Corporate Treasurers In Belgium, Brussels, 8 December 2005

Date 09/12/2005

Ladies and Gentlemen: Good Evening, Thank you for the invitation. It is a pleasure to be with you for your Annual Cocktail. I don’t want to detain you from your festivities for too long. I will limit myself to the issues which are currently the hot topics on my agenda. In particular, I would like to present to you briefly our new financial services policy – the White Paper for the years 2006-2009 which was published just three days ago. Then, I will outline what we are doing in
CBOT $5 Mini-sized Dow Futures Open Interest Surges Past 100,000 Mark

Date 09/12/2005

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that open interest for the Exchange’s $5 mini-sized DowSM futures soared past the 100,000 mark to 101,662 contracts on December 8, 2005 and surpassed the old record of 98,734 contracts set on December 7, 2005. Open Interest in the contract grew 38.2 percent between November 2004 and November 2005.

CBOE And CFE Christmas And New Year's Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 09/12/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) announced the following trading schedule in observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays: Friday, December 23:
Addition Of International Power PLC (ADR) To The S&P ADR Indices

Date 09/12/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P ADR Indices effective after the close of trading on Monday, December 12, 2005: International Power PLC (ADR) (Great Britain, NYSE: IPR, CUSIP: 46018M104, Sedol: 2622145) will be added to the S&P ADR Index to correspond with its inclusion into the S&P Global 1200 Index. International Power PLC is a leading independent power generation company. The number of ADRs used for index calculation purposes will be 147,260,
TSX Venture Exchange Statistics - November, 2005

Date 08/12/2005

Click here to download TSX Venture Exchange's statistics for November 2005.
Three CBOE Seats Sell At New Record Prices Today; Sale Of $800,000 On Thursday, December 8 Sets All-Time Record

Date 08/12/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that three seats, or memberships, sold at all-time record prices today, beating records established earlier this week. The three seat sales today at $780,000, $795,000 and $800,000 all surpassed the previous record price of $777,000, which was set on Tuesday, December 6th. Today's sale was the 99th seat traded this year.
Tax Vote In House Praised By Securities Industry Association

Date 08/12/2005

Marc Lackritz, President of the Securities Industry Association (SIA), today made the following comments after the House passed the tax reconciliation bill, which includes a two-year extension of the capital gains and dividends tax rates first passed in 2003 and currently scheduled to expire in 2008.