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  • Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P Japan SmallCap 250, S&P/TOPIX 150 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

    Date 21/10/2004

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/TOPIX 150, S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 Indices effective after the close of trading, Thursday October 28th 2004: Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (Japan, SEDOL: 6598446, GICS: Consumer Discretionary, GICS Code: 25102010) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 157,534,245 to 2,647,578,136 due to the execution of exercise of preferred stock. Sumitomo Mitsui Financ

  • Speech By SEC Chairman: Remarks Before The Independent Directors Council

    Date 21/10/2004

    Speech by SEC Chairman: Remarks before the Independent Directors Council by Chairman William H. Donaldson U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Washington, D.C. October 21, 2004 Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking you, the Independent Directors Council, and the Investment Company Institute for giving me an opportunity to speak today. It is a pleasure to be with you. I want to salute ICI for

  • Share Changes In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

    Date 21/10/2004

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Tuesday October 26th, 2004: Boral Limited (Australia, SEDOL:6218670, GICS Code:15102010) a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index will increase its shares to 595,270,740. This change is due to a Dividend Reinvestment Plan. CSL Limited (Australia, SEDOL:6185495, GICS Code:35201010) a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index will increase its shares to 197,033,259. This change is due to a D

  • SEC: Thomas Newkirk, Associate Enforcement Director, To Leave The Commission

    Date 21/10/2004

    Thomas C. Newkirk announced today that he will leave the Commission in November to become a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP. For the past eleven years he has served as an Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. He joined the Commission in 1986 as Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement.

  • SEC Charges Qwest Communications International Inc. With Multi-Faceted Accounting And Financial Reporting Fraud - Qwest Agrees To Anti-Fraud Injunction, $250 Million Penalty, And Will Permanently Maintain Chief Compliance Officer Reporting To The Outside

    Date 21/10/2004

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Qwest Communications International Inc., one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, with securities fraud and other violations of the federal securities laws. The Commission’s complaint alleges that, between 1999 and 2002, Qwest fraudulently recognized over $3.8 billion in revenue and excluded $231 million in expenses as part of a multi-faceted fraudulent scheme to meet optimistic and unsupportable revenue and earnin