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Invitation To Meet BOVESPA In New York

Date 06/10/2005

BOVESPA will promote two important events in New York. Brazil Day and BEST – to be held on November 14 and 16, respectively – aim at enhancing the awareness about the Brazilian capital market and attracting international investors.
Hemtex AB Listed On Stockholm Stock Exchange

Date 06/10/2005

As of today, the home textile chain group Hemtex AB is traded on Stockholm Stock Exchange´s O List.
Former KPMG Partner Pays $100,000 To Settle SEC Litigation Relating To Xerox Audits

Date 06/10/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Joseph T. Boyle, a former partner with KPMG LLP, agreed to settle the SEC's charges against him in connection with his role as the relationship partner on the audits of Xerox Corp. from 1999 through 2000. Boyle consented to the entry of a final judgment in the SEC's civil litigation against him pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The final judgment, which is subject to approval by the Honorable Denise L.
EEX: Record Turnover On The Electricity Spot Market

Date 06/10/2005

The EEX pursues its positive, undiminished trading trend and announces a record turnover of electricity trading on the EEX Spot Market. With a daily volume of 321.939 MWh on 3 October 2005, a new benchmark was established. It corresponds to appox. 24 % of the average German daily electricity consumption of around 1.350.000 MWh. The second and third highest trade volumes were reached on 5 October 2005 with 279.857 MWh and on 4 October 2005 with 267.738 MWh.
Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend As Basis Of Exchange-Traded Fund To Launch In Europe - New ETF Reflects Growing Trend In Dividend Investing In Europe And The U.S.

Date 06/10/2005

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index will serve as the basis of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) expected to launch Friday on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by Indexchange, the German investment company that specializes in ETFs. The index, which tracks the top 100 highest dividend-paying U.S. companies, is the first U.S. dividend-weighted index to serve as an underlying for investment products in Europe.

Copenhagen Stock Exchange Implements Committee’s Revised Recommendations For Corporate Governance Into Disclosure Requirements

Date 06/10/2005

The Copenhagen Stock Exchange has decided to implement the Committee’s revised Recommendations for corporate governance into the disclosure requirements for listed companies, obliging the companies, in accordance with the “comply-or-explain” principle, to include in their future annual reports a statement on how they address the Recommendations.
CME E-mini S&P 500 Options More Than Double Previous Volume Record; Technology Enhancements For Equity Options To Launch On Oct. 9

Date 06/10/2005

CME, the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange, set a new volume record on Wednesday, October 5, for options on CME E-mini(R) S&P 500(R) futures with 107,985 contracts traded, more than double the previous record of 45,903 contracts set on Sept. 15, 2005. Open interest also reached a new level at 334,123 positions.
CBOT Celebrates One-Year Anniversary Of Listing Full-Size Gold And Silver Contracts – CBOT’s Precious Metals Complex Continues To Experience Steady Growth Since Adding Electronically Traded Gold And Silver Contracts

Date 06/10/2005

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) marks today as the one-year anniversary of adding full-size Gold (100 oz.) and Silver (5,000 oz.) futures contracts, which trade exclusively on the CBOT’s premier electronic trading platform, to the Exchange’s Precious Metals Complex. According to industry sources, within one year, the CBOT’s Gold Complex (100 oz. Gold and 33.2 oz. mini-sized Gold contracts) captured a monthly market share of 7.5 percent of all exchange-traded precious metals on U.S.-based futu
CBOE Volume In S&P 500 Index Options Reaches New Milestone: Trading Surpasses 50 Million Contracts For First Time Ever

Date 06/10/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that volume in options on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (SPX) reached a new milestone today as total year-to-date volume surpassed 50 million contracts traded at CBOE. This is the first time ever that volume in SPX options has topped the 50 million contracts benchmark and has now passed the 49.4 million contracts record yearly volume set last year.
CBOE Announces OEX Weeklys: Short Term Options Based On S&P 100 Index Will Launch Friday, October 28, 2005

Date 06/10/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced it will launch WeeklysSM options on the Standard & Poor's 100 Index (OEX) in addition to Weeklys based on the S&P 500 Index (SPX), on Friday, October 28, 2005. Weeklys options were created by CBOE to provide investors with an efficient means to trade options specifically around certain news or events-- such as economic data announcements. CBOE's one-week options will be listed on a Friday and expire the following Friday, as opposed to traditio