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  • CBOT Reaches Second-Highest Volume Day In Exchange History

    Date 25/02/2004

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that total exchange trading volume reached 3,309,608 contracts yesterday, the second highest volume day in exchange history.

  • Carnegie Starts Trading On Tallinn Stock Exchange

    Date 25/02/2004

    The Management Board of TSE approved the memberhip application of Carnegie Investment Bank AB, Finland Branch on 23.02.2004.

  • CalPERS Votes Proxy Against Disney’s Eisner - Audit Committee Vote Also Withheld

    Date 25/02/2004

    The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced today that it has decided to withhold voting for Michael D. Eisner for the position of Board Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, citing the company’s dismal performance for the last five year period and the System’s lack of confidence in the long-term strategic vision of the company.

  • Borsa Italiana: STAR Companies Present Their Y2003 Results

    Date 25/02/2004

    Companies listed on STAR, the stock market segment with high requirements, will meet tomorrow with analysts and investors at the 3rd STAR Company Results, an event organised by Borsa Italiana - the Italian Stock Exchange - to present their financial results and their future prospects.

  • ASX Half Year Results 2004 Audio Webcast

    Date 25/02/2004

    ASX's half year results (six months to 31 December 2003) will be released on Wednesday 25 February 2004. An audio webcast of the Analyst brief presented by Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Richard Humphry and Chief Financial Officer, John Hayes will be available on the site after 6.00pm (AEDT) on this day.

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

    Date 24/02/2004

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes effective after the close of business on Wednesday, February 25, 2004: It has been announced that the shareholders of Cara Operations Ltd. (TSX:CAO.A) have approved a plan of arrangement whereby the company will be taken private. As a result, Cara Operations Ltd. will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite, S&P/TSX Capped Composite, S&P/TSX SmallCap and S&P/TSX Capped Consumer Discretionary indices.

  • SEC: Extension Of Compliance Dates Regarding Internal Control Over Financial Reporting Requirements

    Date 24/02/2004

    The Commission has extended the compliance dates for amendments to its rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that were adopted on June 5, 2003, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The amendments require a company to include in annual reports a report by management on the company's internal control over financial reporting and the accompanying auditor's report.

  • SEC To Publish Regulation NMS For Public Comment

    Date 24/02/2004

    The Commission today voted to publish for public comment Regulation NMS, which would contain four interrelated proposals designed to modernize the regulatory structure of the U.S. equity markets. The substantive topics addressed by proposed Regulation NMS are (1) trade-throughs, (2) intermarket access, (3) sub-penny pricing, and (4) market data. In addition, Regulation NMS would update the existing Exchange Act rules governing the national market system, and consolidate them into a single regula

  • SEC Files Civil Fraud Case Against Fleet's Columbia Mutual Fund Adviser And Distributor For Multiple Undisclosed Market Timing Arrangements

    Date 24/02/2004

    The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud action today in federal court in Boston alleging that Columbia Management Advisors, Inc. and Columbia Funds Distributor Inc. allowed certain preferred mutual fund customers to engage in short-term and excessive trading, while at the same time representing publicly that it prohibited such trading. Columbia Management Advisors, Inc. is a registered investment adviser that manages Columbia mutual funds; Columbia Funds Distributor is a regis

  • R. J. O'Brien Launches New Foreign Exchange Managed Account Program

    Date 24/02/2004

    R. J. O'Brien Foreign Exchange, Inc. (RJO FX), an affiliate of R. J. O'Brien and Associates, Inc. (RJO), a Chicago-based Futures Commission Merchant, has launched a new multi-manager Foreign Exchange Managed Account Program effective January 2, 2004.