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Osaka Securities Exchange: Trading Overview In February 2012

Date 01/03/2012

OSE announced a trading overview (preliminary estimates) in  February 2012.

HKEx's Second Phase New Trading Hours To Begin 5 March

Date 01/03/2012

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will implement the second phase of the new trading hours for its securities and derivatives markets¹ from 5 March (Monday) this year.  The implementation of the second phase of the new trading hours is aimed at aligning the opening of the Hong Kong securities market's afternoon trading session with that of the Mainland market, and further increasing the overall competitiveness of HKEx's markets in the region.

IOSCO Consults On Oil Price Reporting Agency Oversight

Date 01/03/2012

The Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation report, Functioning and Oversight of Oil Price Reporting Agencies, which examines the role played by Oil Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs) in the functioning of oil markets, their methods of operation and governance and potential options for future oversight.

Instinet Extends VWAP Cross To Europe, Hong Kong

Date 01/03/2012

Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced the expansion of its VWAP Cross to Europe and Hong Kong. The pre-market cross is already a major source of anonymous, low impact, block liquidity at the industry standard Volume Weighted Average Price in the US, Canada, Japan and Korea.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 2011 Performance Of ChiNext-Listed Companies Comes Out

Date 01/03/2012

The 2011 yearly performance of ChiNext companies has been released. Until Feb,29, 2011, 291 ChiNext companies had approved the annual report, performance express news and listing announcements, all of which includes the relevant finance data for 2011. Among these companies, 29 listed companies had made the disclosure on 2011 annual report, 4 newly-listed companies had disclosed 2011 relevant finance data in the listing announcements, and the rest all released the performance express-news. Generally speaking, ChiNext companies keep the continued growth in 2011 performance, with a batch of high-growth companies surfacing. But, on the other side, it shows that the small-medium sized enterprises were significantly affected owing to the complication of macro-economy situations, along with the slowing-down growth of the overall performance of ChiNext board and the further divided performance.

RP Data, Rismark And ASX Introduce World-First Daily Home Value Index

Date 01/03/2012

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in conjunction with national property data and analytics group RP Data and property research group Rismark International announce the launch of the RP Data-Rismark Daily Home Value index, available from today.

TFX Trading Volume In January 2012

Date 01/03/2012

The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 245,444 decreasing 65.5% in comparison to that of the prior year comparable month, and decreasing 23.4% in comparison to that of the prior month, and the average dailyvolume was 12,918 . 

ASX Welcomes Fidessa To The Australian Liquidity Centre - Fidessa's SaaS Services Now Co-Located In New ASX Data Centre

Date 01/03/2012

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the leading securities exchange in Australia, and Fidessa Group PLC, a provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions for the world’s financial community, announce that Fidessa will be co-locating its  Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions and global connectivity network for the financial marketplace at ASX’s new data and co-location centre - the ASX Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC). Fidessa will also be locating its back-up systems at ASX’s alternate data centre. 

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Price Of Crude Oil For February 2012 Contract

Date 01/03/2012

Final settlement price of Middle East Crude Oil for February 2012 contract is 57,520 yen.

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

Date 29/02/2012

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

The shareholders of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. (TSX:QUX) have accepted the $CDN15.00 cash per share offer from KGHM Polska Miedz SA. Quadra FNX Mining will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Global Mining, Global Base Metals and Equal Weight Global Base Metals, the S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials and the S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Indices effective after the close of Wednesday, March 7, 2012.