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Initial Margin Requirement For FORTS Market And Standard Sector Increased For The Holidays Season

Date 26/12/2011

By the decision of the MICEX-RTS Derivatives market committee, Joint-stock company "RTS Clearing Center" increases the size of initial margin for the FORTS derivatives market, Standard sector of the securities market, Moscow Energy Exchange and Saint-Petersburg Exchange for the period of January holidays.

RTS: About Last Price Traded (LAST) Showed In The Securities Market Trading System

Date 26/12/2011

Supplementary Conditions For Trading In MICEX Stock Exchange CJSC From 3 Through 6 January And On 9 January 2012

Date 26/12/2011

Please be advised that on December 23, 2011 the Directorate of MICEX SE CJSC decided to open markets of MICEX Stock Exchange CJSC on January 3, 2012 through January 6, 2012 and on January 9, 2012 (according to the Minutes No. 152).

T-Bills To Be Traded On Qatar Exchange

Date 26/12/2011

Qatar Exchange today announced full operational and regulatory readiness to launch the debt instruments market starting with the admission of the Qatari Government short term Treasury Bills to trade on the exchange starting Dec, 29,2011.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Revised The Independent Director Record Filing Procedures

Date 26/12/2011

Amman Stock Exchange Christmas Holiday

Date 25/12/2011

On the occasion of Christmas Holiday, there will be no trading at the Amman Stock Exchange on Sunday December 25, 2011.

Shanghai Stock Exchange Launches Classified Bond Management, Trading System

Date 24/12/2011

The "SSE Provisional Measures on Investor Suitability Management in Bond Market" is promulgated today (December 24, 2011) and will come into force on February 1, 2012. The release of the Measures is of great significance to protecting legal rights and interests of the investors in the bond market and boosting the steady and sound development of the bond market in the long run. Upon a recent interview, an official of the relevant department of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) elaborated on the significance of the release of the Measures, the main contents of the Measures and others in the interview.

BATS 1000 Index Rises 3.9% This Week

Date 23/12/2011

BATS Global Markets, a global stock market operator, reports the BATS 1000® Index (Ticker: BATSK) advanced 539.26 points, or 3.9%, this week to close at 14,474.94 as of 4 p.m. ET today. The S&P 500 Index was up 3.7% on the week.

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

Date 23/12/2011

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

The shareholders of Daylight Energy Ltd. (TSX: DAY) have approved the proposed acquisition of Daylight by Sinopec International Petroleum and Production Corporation (SIPC). Daylight shareholders will receive $CDN10.08 cash for each share held. Daylight will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend and Equity Income, the S&P/TSX Equity, Capped Equity and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Capped Energy and the S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight Indices after the close of Thursday, December 29, 2011.

SIFMA Statement On Volcker Rule Comment Period Extension

Date 23/12/2011

SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., executive vice president, public policy and advocacy, in response to an announcement by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that they will extend the deadline for comments on proposed regulations implementing the Volcker Rule.