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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's Office: Remand Motion Filed In Former New York Stock Exchange Chairman And CEO Grasso Case

Date 20/07/2004

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office today filed a remand motion in the case against former New York Stock Exchange Chairman and CEO Richard A. Grasso.
Morgan Stanley Becomes Equity Investor In Boston Options Exchange - BOX Continues To Build Volume And Reach Milestones

Date 20/07/2004

Morgan Stanley has joined the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) as an equity partner, making it the sixth broker dealer to invest in BOX. Morgan Stanley now joins Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Interactive Brokers, JPMorgan and UBS in the member firm investment group.
Instinet Establishes Independent Research Partnership; Unconflicted Research To Be Offered Exclusively By Instinet

Date 20/07/2004

Instinet, LLC, the Unconflicted Institutional Broker, today announced the creation of Instinet Research Partners, a network of independent research firms that use primary research techniques to provide institutional investors with objective analysis and insight on various companies and sectors. Unlike traditional bundled research offerings, the independent research provided via this partnership will be offered exclusively by Instinet, an electronic agency brokerage free of the conflicts of inter
Euronext: Société Foncière Lyonnaise Removed From Next 150 Index

Date 20/07/2004

New composition of Next 150 Index Following the official result of the takeover bid by the Spanish company Inmobiliaria Colonial for the French company Société Foncière Lyonnaise (Next 150), Société Foncière Lyonnaise will be removed from the Next 150 Index effective Friday 23 July 2004. In accordance with the rules of the Next 150 Index the removed company will not be replaced immediately, but at the next quarterly review (effective 1 October 2004). As of Friday 23 July 2004
Copenhagen Stock Exchange Focus: Electronics May Bring Increased Dynamism To General Meetings

Date 20/07/2004

Companies have now been given the option to decide that its shareholders shall be allowed to participate online in the company’s general meetings, including be given the opportunity to vote online without being physically present at the venue of the general meeting.

Committee of European Securities Regulators Publishes The Public Statement From The Sixth Meeting Of The CESR Market Participants Consultative Panel

Date 20/07/2004

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Committee Of European Securities Regulators Extends Deadline For Consultation On Some Mandates Under MiFiD Included In Its Consultative Paper Published On 17 June 2004

Date 20/07/2004

Following the requests expressed by a number of market participants during the public hearing held in Paris on 8 and 9 July, CESR has decided to extend to the 4th of October 2004 the deadline to comment the draft CESR technical advice on mandates concerning best-execution - mandate under Article 21 of MiFiD - and market transparency - section III.B of the consultative paper - , on which CESR will have to finalise its technical advice by April 2005
Baltic Stock Exchanges Monthly Statistics - June 2004

Date 20/07/2004

Baltic List To Be Expanded As a next step towards the creation of a joint Baltic market, the current Baltic List consisting of 15 largest listed companies of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian stock exchanges will be expanded to comprise all main list companies of the three exchanges as of 1 July 2004. The securities will continue to be legally listed on their current home exchanges, but marketed jointly under the Baltic List. The introduction of joint Baltic mar
TSX Venture Statistics – June 2004 Background Commentary

Date 19/07/2004

Graduates There were 9 graduates to the Toronto Stock Exchange in June 2004, bringing the total number of YTD graduates to 30. These graduates represent 30.6% of the senior market's new listings this year compared to 45.8% for the same period last year. So far in 2004, 11 TSX Venture companies have been acquired/merged with TSX listed companies.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 19/07/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Monday, July 19, 2004: First Goldwater Resources Inc. (TSXVN:FGW) will change its name to Baja Mining Corp. The new ticker symbol will be “BAJ.” There is no consolidation of capital.