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OIC Announces Equity Options Seminar Lineup For Winter/Spring 2012 - Launches Pilot Seminar On Advanced Strategies

Date 12/01/2012

The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today its seminar schedule for the winter and spring season. Seminars focusing on basic, intermediate, volatility, and options on ETFs topics will be offered as well as a new seminar for experienced traders on advanced options strategies. The pilot seminar will cover vertical spreads, butterflies and condors and will be introduced in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York in February and March.

Introductory Statement To The Press Conference - Mario Draghi, President Of The ECB, Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President Of The European Central Bank, Frankfurt Am Main, 12 January 2012

Date 12/01/2012

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. Let me wish you all a Happy New Year. We will now report on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council.

BATS Announces First Primary Listings - Welcomes New iShares ETFs - Leading ETF Issuer To Launch Inaugural Listings On BATS Exchange - New ETFs Based On MSCI Indexes

Date 12/01/2012

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a global operator of stock and options markets, today announced that BlackRock, Inc.'s (NYSE: BLK) iShares®Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world's largest manager of ETFs, will list eight new ETFs on BATS Exchange,marking BATS’ first primary listings.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide And Equinix Collaborate To Deliver Cloud-Based Services For Global Enterprises - Building On The Success Of Its Successful Flexible Computing Platform In The UK, C&W Worldwide Expands Cloud Offering To Customers Globally - Global Enterprises Will Have Access To World Class Data Centre Services In Multiple Countries

Date 12/01/2012

Cable&Wireless Worldwide (LSE: CW.), a global provider of mission critical communications, is collaborating with Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, to become a one-stop shop for global enterprises that require best-of-breed data centre services.

NYSE Euronext Launches A New Website Dedicated To Europe's Regulatory Revolution In Financial Services

Date 12/01/2012

NYSE Euronext has today launched a new channel on its website dedicated to financial services regulatory policy in the European Union. The site kicks off with a review of the European Commission’s proposals on MiFID II and MiFIR.  Aimed at legislators, policy makers, opinion formers and the media, the webpage will provide a new source of information, comment and analysis from a major player in European capital markets. 

Green Exchange Holiday Hours For Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Date 12/01/2012

GreenX Contracts listed for trading on CME Globex^® and for submission for clearing through CME ClearPort^® will have revised trading hours for the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  Please see the information below for further details.

Dow Jones Indexes To License Dow Jones Credit Suisse 30-Year Inflation Breakeven Index For Proshares 30 Year Tips/Tsy Spread ETF And Proshares Short 30 Year TIPS/TSY Spread ETF- Along With Dow Jones Credit Suisse 10-Year Inflation Breakeven Index, New Index Family Seeks To Track Market Expectations For Long-Term Inflation- With Inflation At Historic Lows, Increasing Global Demand For Commodities, And Low Interest Rates, The Climate Seems Right For Inflation Index Products

Date 12/01/2012

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that ProShares^® has licensed the new Dow Jones Credit Suisse 30-Year Inflation Breakeven Index to serve as the basis for both the ProShares 30 Year TIPS/TSY Spread ETF and the ProShares Short 30 Year TIPS/TSY Spread ETF. 

UOKiK Approves Warsaw Stock Exchange's Acquisition Of POLPX - The President Of The Office Of Competition And Consumer Protection Has Approved Today The Acquisition Of The Polish Power Exchange By The WSE

Date 12/01/2012

The application concerning the take-over of control of the Polish Power Exchange (Towarowa Giełda Energii) by the Warsaw Stock Exchange was filed with the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) in October 2011. Under the applicable legislation, a transaction must be notified to the anti-monopoly office if it involves two enterprises whose aggregate turnover in the preceding year exceeded EUR 1 billion globally or EUR 50 million in Poland.

Powernext Gas: A Strong Activity Growth With 130 TWh Traded In 2011

Date 12/01/2012

After 3 years of activity, Powernext Gas has completed a 2011 exercise with a very strong volume increase on its Spot and Futures segments in a context more and more favorable to the development of the French gas market.

Warsaw Stock Exchange: European IPO Leader In 2011

Date 12/01/2012

• The WSE is the European leader by the number of IPOs and ranks third by the value of IPOs in all of 2011.
• Very high IPO activity on the NewConnect market.