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  • Securities Industry Association Testifies On Basel II Accord

    Date 23/06/2004

    Michael Alix, chair of the Securities Industry Association’s Risk Management Committee and senior managing director, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., testified before the House Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit about the benefits of the Consolidated Supervised Entities regime as proposed in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s new Capital Accord (or “Basel II”). The CSE f

  • SEC Adopts Changes To Short Sale Rules, Disclosures Regarding Advisory Contract Approval And Investment Company Governance Provisions

    Date 23/06/2004

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt changes to its rules regarding short selling; its requirements for disclosures by investment companies concerning board approval of advisory contracts; and its investment company exemptive rules, designed to improve fund governance practices.

  • S&P Announces Changes To S&P U.S. Indices

    Date 23/06/2004

    Standard & Poor’s will be making changes to the S&P 500, S&P 100, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices.

  • Nymex To List PJM Monthly Electricity Futures Through 2007

    Date 23/06/2004

    The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will list a fourth year of trading in the PJM monthly electricity futures contract, beginning tomorrow at 3:15 PM on NYMEX ClearPortsm for Friday's trading session.

  • NASDAQ Closing Cross Used To Calculate Russell Indexes - Russell Hosts NASDAQ Market Open Ceremony To Mark Occasion

    Date 23/06/2004

    The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ®) and Russell Investment Group today announced approximately 1,700 NASDAQ securities are now included in the NASDAQ Closing Cross, which will be used in the calculation of the entire family of Russell indexes during their annual reconstitution on June 25. The Russell indexes contain 98-percent of the market capitalization of all publicly-traded companies in the U.S. and assets indexed to Russell indexes have grown more than 186-percent over the past five yea