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The Borsa Italiana Group To Observe Two Minutes Of Silence Today, July 14 At 12 Am CET To Commemorate The Victims Of The London Terrorist Attacks

Date 14/07/2005

Borsa Italiana, Cassa di Compensazione e Garanzia, Monte Titoli as well as Borsa Italiana Group subsidiaries will observe two minutes of silence today Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 12 am CET to commemorate the victims of the London terrorist attacks.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to the S&P Global 100 Index

Date 14/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P Global 100 Index effective after the close of trading on Tuesday, July 19, 2005. Upon completion of the unification Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport & Trading plc, the company (Royal Dutch Shell) will be represented by two separate securities in the Global 100 index: Royal Dutch Shell A Shares (United Kingdom, sedol = B03MLX2) and Royal Dutch Shell B Shares (United Kingdom, sedol = B03MM40). This change
Standard & Poor’s Changes The S&P/MIB Index Methodology

Date 14/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s announces the following amendments to the S&P/MIB methodology effective immediately. The changes will minimize small intra-quarter changes to attenuate the costs of trading and increase the S&P/MIB’s usability.
Royal Dutch Shell A Shares Will Replace Royal Dutch Petroleum Company And Royal Dutch Shell B Shares Will Replace Shell Transport & Trading Company In The S&P European Indices

Date 14/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Europe Plus, S&P Euro and S&P United Kingdom Indices effective at the close of trading Tuesday, July 19, 2005: Royal Dutch Shell A shares (United Kingdom, SEDOL B03MLX2, GICS: Energy, GICS Code: 10102010) will replace Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands, SEDOL 5202704) in the S&P Europe 350 index and will be added to the S&P United Kingdom index, after the close of trading on Tuesday, July 19, 20
Program Trading Averaged 55.8 Percent Of NYSE Volume During July 5-8

Date 14/07/2005

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for July 5-8.

NYSE Says SEC Proposal Will Make Bond Market More Transparent To Investing Public

Date 14/07/2005

Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed allowing NYSE members and member organizations to trade certain unregistered debt securities on the Exchange’s Automated Bond System® (ABS®). Under the proposal, an exemption from the provisions of section 12(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the NYSE could add a substantial number of existing bonds to ABS, making the benefits of real-time quote and price transparency available to the bond investing public.
Nymex Revises Date Of e-miNY Futures Contracts Migration

Date 14/07/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it will postpone the migration of its NYMEX miNYsm crude oil and natural gas futures contracts to NYMEX ClearPort® from the CME® Globex® electronic trading platform to August 22.
NYBOT Announces New Margin Requirements

Date 14/07/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective with the opening of business on Friday, July 15, 2005, the margin requirements are as detailed by clicking Click here.
New Non-Price Indices From FTSE Group And GWA

Date 14/07/2005

FTSE Group (FTSE), the global index provider, and Global Wealth Allocation Limited (GWA), the global research and financial advisory firm, announced today that they are working together to create seven new ‘non-price’ strategy indices for the global equity market. The new indices will cover all stocks in the FTSE All-Share Index and the FTSE All-World Developed Index. They will be available in the autumn.
KOSPI 200 Option’s Market Reaches Maturity - Market Integrity Has Greatly Improved

Date 14/07/2005

Since the listing on July 7, 1997, the trading volume of KOSPI 200 Options continued to increase before the trend turned around and began to decline in 2003. This downward trend continued in 2005, indicating that the market has reached a stage of maturity The KOSPI 200 Options market has experienced phenomenal growth since its opening and has remained No. 1 in the world as a single contract in terms of trading volume, with a 28% share of the global derivatives trading volume.