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Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange Weekly Market Views - November 1, 2009

Date 01/11/2009

Security Traders Association Supports Liquidity Provision And As Well As Pools With Fair Access And Full Disclosure - Regulations Need To Be Driven By Due Process

Date 30/10/2009

The STA affirms its support of the importance of liquidity providers regardless of the market capitalization of any particular stock. The US securities markets provide for the health and growth of the overall economy as well as the engine for raising capital. Absent the provision of liquidity, our securities markets would not exist. Historically, liquidity has been provided in exchange listed securities by specialists and market makers and in OTC securities by market makers. Both take risk t

Report On U.S. Portfolio Holdings Of Foregn Securities At End-Year 2008

Date 30/10/2009

The findings from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2008 were released today and posted on the Treasury web site at (http://www.treas.gov/tic/fpis.html).

BM&FBOVESPA Participates In The Sustainable Stock Exchange Event At The UN - Conference Will Debate Sustainable Investment Opportunities And Corporate Responsibility

Date 30/10/2009

The Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – BM&FBOVESPA will participate in the Sustainable Stock Exchange conference at the United Nations headquarters, in New York. The event, organized in conjunction by the UN Global Pact, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), will take place on November 2, 2009. The conference will bring together some of the most important representatives of the international

Dow Jones Indexes And UBS Announce 2010 Weights Of Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index

Date 30/10/2009

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2010. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Supervisory Committee following consultation with the Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.

“Not” - Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Before The Agricultural Advisory Committee, Washington, DC, October 29, 2009

Date 30/10/2009

There was a catch phrase back in the 1990s with the word "not" that you may recall. Someone would make a declarative statement, pause for a beat, and then negate the statement by saying "not." We saw it on Saturday Night Live and in the movie Wayne’s World. “That's a really sweet tie ... Not.” Well, I want to pause here for a minute and say what this meeting is not.

CFTC Releases Latest Quarterly Data On Commodity Index Investment

Date 30/10/2009

Swap dealers and index traders that receive a “special call” (under CFTC Rule 18.05) must file monthly reports with the CFTC's Division of Market Oversight within 5 business days after the end of the month. Selected quarterly data from those reports is published below. Those data show the national values and the equivalent number of futures contracts for all U.S. markets with more than $0.5 billion of reported net notional value of index investment at the end of any one quarter.

SEC Fee Rate Advisory #3 For Fiscal Year 2010

Date 30/10/2009

The continuing resolution funding the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal year 2010 since Oct. 1, 2009, is being extended through Dec. 18, 2009. During this period, fees paid under Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 13(e) and 14(g) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 will remain at the current rate of $55.80 per million dollars, while fees paid under Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 will remain at the current rate of $25.70 per million dollars.

Federal Court Freezes Assets Of Moroccan Resident Richmond Hamilton, Jr., And The Chicago Commodity Pool He Manages In A $1 Million Pool Anti-Fraud Case Brought By The CFTC - Court Appoints A Receiver To Indentify Assets And Funds Owed Customers

Date 30/10/2009

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it obtained an emergency court order freezing assets held by defendants Raleigh Capital Management, Inc. (RCM), of Chicago, Ill., and its sole principal, Richmond Hamilton, Jr., who resides in Morocco. The court’s order also prohibits the destruction of records and appoints a receiver to identify assets, customers and amounts owed customers.

SEC Charges Former CFO And Six Relatives And Friends In California-Based Insider Trading Ring

Date 30/10/2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former chief financial officer of a San Francisco private investment firm and six of his relatives and friends with insider trading, alleging that their scheme collectively reaped more than $8 million in illicit profits from unlawful trades in the securities of Tempur-pedic International, Inc. and Acxiom Corporation.