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

Date 24/05/2012

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:

S&P Canadian Index Services announces that calculation of five equity-only indices, as listed below, will cease after the quarterly review of the S&P/TSX Composite Index in December, 2012:

• S&P/TSX Equity Index
• S&P/TSX Capped Equity Index
• S&P/TSX Equity 60 Index
• S&P/TSX Equity Completion Index
• S&P/TSX Equity SmallCap Index

NYSE Group Inc. Issues Short Interest Report

Date 24/05/2012

The NYSE Group, Inc. today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of May 15, 2012.

El Ezz Aldekhela Steel-Alexandria To Join Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 Index - Banque Centrale Populaire S.A. Added To Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index - Korea Exchange Bank Added To Dow Jones Emerging Markets Select Dividend Index - Shin Corporation Pcl Of Thailand Added To Dow Jones Emerging Markets Technology Titans 30 Index

Date 24/05/2012

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced Egypt’s Egyptian Company for Mobile Services will be removed from three of Dow Jones Indexes’ market gauges due to its acquisition by MT Telecom SCRL of France. India’s Patni Computer Systems Limited will be removed from the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Technology Titans 30 Index due to its acquisition by iGate Corporation of the United States.

NYSE MKT Issues Short Interest Report

Date 24/05/2012

NYSE MKT (formerly known as NYSE Amex) today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of May 15, 2012.

CFTC Charges Chicago-based Trader Bradley Schiller With $7.8 Million Commodity Fraud

Date 24/05/2012

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, chargingBradley Scott Schiller of Chicago, Ill., with solicitation fraud, misappropriating investors’ funds, and issuing false statements in connection with soliciting at least $7.8 million from at least six investors to trade commodity futures contracts in managed accounts.

NYSE Euronext Announces Bell Ringers For The NYSE Big StartUp Competition

Date 24/05/2012

NYSE Euronext (NYX), in collaboration with the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) and The StartUp America Partnership is pleased to announce that the 10 finalists from the Facebook contest of The NYSE Bell Ringing Competition have been invited to ring The Closing Bell® on May 30th at the NYSE.  This competition was part of the NYSE Big StartUpSM, a nationwide jobs-growth initiative designed to connect young companies and entrepreneurs with corporate America.

CFTC Staff To Host A Public Roundtable To Discuss The Proposed Volcker Rule

Date 24/05/2012

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that staff will hold a public roundtable on Thursday, May 31, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to discuss the proposed regulations to implement Section 619 (commonly known as the Volcker Rule) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 619 contains certain prohibitions and restrictions on the ability of banking entities to engage in proprietary trading and to have certain interests in, or relationships with, a hedge fund or private equity fund.

NASDAQ Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks As Of Settlement Date May 15, 2012

Date 24/05/2012

At the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2012, short interest in 2,235 NASDAQ Global Market^SM securities totaled 7,001,712,386 shares compared with 6,721,187,618 shares in 2,241 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 30, 2012. The mid-May short interest represents 3.94 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.17 days for the prior reporting period.

Program Trading Averaged 30.3 Percent Of NYSE Volume During May 14-18

Date 24/05/2012

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database.   The report includes trading on the NYSE for May 14-18.

ESMA Finds High Level Of Consistency In EU National Regulators’ Practices For The Approval Of Investment Prospectuses

Date 24/05/2012

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today “Prospectus Directive – Good Practices in the approval process“,  a peer review report on the application of regulatory good practices by national supervisory authorities - competent authorities (CA)  when approving investment prospectuses.