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  • Adjustment To ICEX Share Indices Due To Pre-emptive Right Issues

    Date 09/07/2004

    ICEX has in the past not adjusted its share indices when companies have decided to issue new shares with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders. Such issues have been rare and not adjusting the indices has therefore been of no practical importance. After considering the matter carefully ICEX has decided to make a change in this practice consistent with the practice in many other countries.

  • UK’s Financial Services Authority Investigation Into Trading In Marks & Spencer Plc Shares And Derivatives

    Date 08/07/2004

    On 28 May 2004, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that it was reviewing trading in the securities of Marks & Spencer Group and related derivative instruments prior to the announcement, on May 27 2004, of a possible offer for the company by Revival Acquisitions.

  • TSX Venture Statistics – June 2004

    Date 08/07/2004

    Yearly value traded is up almost 206% from same period in 2003

  • The Stock Exchange Of Thailand Board Approves Establishing Investor Protection Fund And Supports The New “Federation Of Capital Market Associations”

    Date 08/07/2004

    Executive Vice President of The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Mrs. Patareeya Benjapolchai announced that the SET Board of Governors has approved, in principle, to set up an Investor Protection Fund (IPF) to secure investors’ assets deposited at securities firms. The SET will provide the IPF’s initial start-up funds of THB 300 million. Securities firms that are SET members will then each be requested to pay an additional amount on a monthly basis in proportion to their trading value. This move

  • Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes To S&P SmallCap 600 Index

    Date 08/07/2004

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index after the close of trading Thursday, July 15, 2004: S&P SmallCap 600 components Belden Inc. (NYSE:BWC) and Cable Design Technologies (NYSE:CDT) are merging in a transaction anticipated to close on or about that date, pending shareholder approval. The merged company, Belden CDT Inc. (NYSE:BDC), will replace Cable Design Technologies, while FindWhat.com (NASD:FWHT) will replace Belden, in the S&P SmallCap 6