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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.
NYBOT's New York Clearing Corporation Selects JPMorgan Treasury Services As Its CLS Provider

Date 24/02/2004

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) clearing house, the New York Clearing Corporation® (NYCC®), has selected JPMorgan Treasury Services (TS), a unit of JPMorgan Chase Bank and a leader in global payment, trade and treasury services management, to be its Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) service provider, a Payment vs. Payment settlement system which helps to remove risk.
New York Attorney General Spitzer Files Civil Charges Against Fleetboston Subsidiaries In Market Timing Case

Date 24/02/2004

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced civil charges against Columbia Management Advisors, Inc. and Columbia Funds Distributor Inc. - both subsidiaries of FleetBoston Financial Corporation - for engaging in a massive mutual fund timing scheme.
NASDAQ Commends The SEC For Market Structure Reforms

Date 24/02/2004

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ ®; OTCBB: NDAQ), today voiced its support for the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) market structure proposals. Although company senior officials are in the process of reviewing the newly proposed rules, NASDAQ is encouraged by the reforms set forth by Chairman Donaldson and the Commission, which signal a historic development within U.S. market structure.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange - Focus: Implementation Of IAS Regulation In Denmark

Date 24/02/2004

On 3 February 2004, the Danish Parliament passed a bill on amendments to the Danish Financial Statements Act, thereby incorporating the transitional provisions of the IAS Regulation into Danish legislation.