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NYSE Seat Sells for $1,000

Date 06/01/2005

A second regular seat sold on the New York Stock Exchange today, Jan. 6, 2005, for $1,000,000, down $15,000 from the previous regular seat sale today. Bid $975,000 Offer $1,150,000
NYSE Announces Officer Promotions

Date 06/01/2005

The New York Stock Exchange’s board of directors today approved 13 senior management promotions. The Exchange named three executive vice presidents, two senior vice presidents, seven vice presidents and a chief ethics officer. Promoted to executive vice president were: Anne Allen, Market Operations; Roger Burkhardt, Technology; and Robert Marchman, Market Surveillance. Promoted to senior vice president were Ronald Jordan, Market Data and Angela Posillico, Regulatory and Corpo
Nymex Decreases Margins On Some Natural Gas, Henry Hub Swap, And Natural Gas e-miNY<SUP>sm</sup> Futures Contracts

Date 06/01/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will decrease the margins on some of the NYMEX Division natural gas, Henry Hub swap, and natural gas e–miNYsm futures contracts at the close of business tomorrow.
Nymex Creates New Department, Names Head And Promotes Senior Vice President And Vice President

Date 06/01/2005

The board of directors of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., appointed Madeline Boyd as senior vice president of its newly formed external affairs department and promoted Joseph Raia to senior vice president of marketing and Richard Kerschner to associate general counsel and vice president of corporate governance.
NYBOT Sets All-Time Annual Trading Record In 2004 - Combined Annual Volume Up 28%; Highest Total In The Exchange’s 134-Year History

Date 06/01/2005

In a year of major milestones, the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) culminated a grand chapter in its 134-year history with a record-shattering performance in setting a new total annual volume record of 31,729,591 combined futures and options contracts – an astonishing 28% increase over the 24,832,158 contracts traded in the previous record year of 2003.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer: Broker Enters Guilty Plea In Ongoing Insurance Probe - Senior Vice President is the First Marsh Employee Convicted

Date 06/01/2005

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said today that a senior executive of Marsh, Inc. has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation of fraud and bid rigging in the insurance industry.
KOFEX Weekly Bulletin No. 218 – December 31, 2004

Date 06/01/2005

Please click here to view the KOFEX Weekly Bulletin No. 218 – December 31, 2004.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange Allocates Individual Order Books Based On Performance As Of July - More Competition Between Lead Brokers Raises Quality For Private Investors - Opportunity For New Performance-Oriented Lead Brokers - Goal Also To Attract Internati

Date 06/01/2005

Deutsche Börse wants to promote competition between lead brokers (Skontroführer) at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, in order to further improve the quality of retail trading. The centerpiece of the plan is the allocation of individual order books (Skontren) to currently active lead brokers for stocks traded on the official and regulated markets, based on their contribution to overall order book turnover and performance, starting July 01, 2005. Furthermore, the allocation of order books in
Euronext: The City Code On Takeovers and Mergers; Rule 8 Announcement

Date 06/01/2005

Euronext N.V. ("Euronext") confirms, for the purposes of Rule 8 of The City Code on Takeovers and Mergers ("Rule 8"), that any offer for the London Stock Exchange plc, if made, is likely to be solely in cash.
Euroclear SA/NV Is Launched As Corporate Restructuring Is Completed

Date 06/01/2005

Following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals and consents, the Board of Euroclear plc is pleased to confirm the completion of the Euroclear group's corporate restructuring. In this context, Euroclear SA/NV, the new holding company of the group's national and international central securities depositories (CSDs), commenced activities with effect from 1 January 2005. The new company, incorporated in Belgium and with branch offices in Amsterdam, London and Paris, owns the group's shared s