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Indian Commodity Exchange Launches Website In Gujarati - Will Educate And Empower Market Participants And Extend Financial Inclusion

Date 07/06/2011

Indian Commodity Exchange, today launched the Gujarati version of its website (http://gujarati.icexindia.com/), to provide details on the commodity market, news updates on business and economy. Real-time updates on scrip movements, announcements, market data, market operations and Investor guidance in the Gujarati language are the key features on this website and will be a valuable guide for the members, traders, brokers and other market participants.

Palestine Exchange (PEX) Investor Monthly Newsletter Issue #14, May 2011

Date 07/06/2011

Click here to download issue #14, May 2011, of the PEX investor monthly newsletter.

U.S.A. Federal Agencies Extend Comment Period On Risk Retention Proposed Rulemaking

Date 07/06/2011

Six federal agencies have approved and will submit a Federal Register notice that extends the comment period on the proposed rules to implement the credit risk retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The comment period was extended to August 1, 2011, to allow interested persons more time to analyze the issues and prepare their comments. Originally, comments were due by June 10, 2011.

HKEx Publishes Trading Statistics For May 2011 - On-Floor & Off-Floor Trading Statistics

Date 07/06/2011

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor

SEC Suspends Trading In 17 Companies In Proactive Effort To Combat Microcap Stock Fraud

Date 07/06/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today suspended trading in 17 microcap stocks because of questions about the adequacy and accuracy of publicly available information about the companies, which trade in the over-the-counter (OTC) market.

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - May 2011

Date 07/06/2011

Highlights

- Securities Market

• The average daily turnover for the first five months of 2011 was $74,395 million, an increase of 12 per cent when compared with $66,210 million for the same period last year. 
• The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first five months of 2011 was $12,307 million, an increase of 30 per cent when compared with $9,472 million for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first five months of 2011 was $5,657 million, an increase of 18 per cent when compared with $4,786 million for the same period last year. 
• Funds raised by initial public offerings for the first five months of 2011 was $122,497 million, an increase of 164 per cent when compared with $46,323 million for the same period last year.

David Cohen Joins SIFMA Municipal Securities Division

Date 07/06/2011

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today announced that David Cohen has joined SIFMA as managing director and associate general counsel.

Securities Commission Malaysia: Kosmo Technology Group MD Charged

Date 07/06/2011

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today charged Dato’ Norhamzah bin Nordin, the group managing director of Kosmo Technology Industrial Berhad (Kosmo Tech) for providing false information to Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. The charges against Dato’ Norhamzah followed the charging of Mohd Azham and Lim Hai Loon at the Sessions Court on 26th May 2011.

HKEx To Expand Synthetic Futures Trading In Its Stock Options Market From 13 June

Date 07/06/2011

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce synthetic futures series in five more stock option classes - Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), Bank of China (BOC), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), iShares FTSE A50 China Index ETF (A50 ETF) and PetroChina - from 13 June this year.

Start Of Primary Auctioning Of Emission Allowances - EUAs In Athens Exchange

Date 07/06/2011

The Athens Exchange in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change has undertaken the primary auction of the Emission Allowances (EUAs) of the period 2008-2012, within the European Union, in which the Greek Government will offer the annual total, for the year 2011, of 10 million EUAs from its new entrant's reserve.