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London Stock Exchange: Minmet Plc Publicly Censured

Date 04/12/2008

Minmet plc (“Minmet” or the “Company”), has today been publicly censured for breaches of the AIM Rules between October 2006 and January 2008 (“the Relevant Period”).
UK's Financial Services Authority Consults On Liquidity Rules For Banks, Building Societies And Investment Firms

Date 04/12/2008

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published a consultation paper (CP) which proposes a far-reaching overhaul of the liquidity requirements for banks, building societies and investment firms.
Admission To Trading Of Luxembourg’s Largest Sovereign Bond Issue

Date 04/12/2008

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange commenced secondary trading on 4 December 2008 of a bond issue of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for an amount of EUR 2,000,000,000.
Interim Assistant US Treasury Secretary For Financial Stability Neel Kashkari Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On Financial Services And General Government

Date 04/12/2008

Chairman Durbin, Members of the Subcommittee, good morning and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. I would like to provide an update on the Treasury Department's actions to work through the financial crisis and restore the flow of credit to the economy. We have taken multiple actions with the following three critical objectives: one, to provide stability to financial markets; two, to support the housing market by preventing avoidable forec
Speech By Chairman Bernanke On Housing, Mortgage Markets, And foreclosures

Date 04/12/2008

The U.S. financial system has been in turmoil during the past 16 months. Credit conditions have tightened and asset values have declined, contributing substantially, in turn, to the weakening of economic activity. As the participants in this conference are keenly aware, I am sure, housing and housing finance played a central role in precipitating the current crisis. As the crisis has persisted, however, the relationships between housing and other parts of the economy have become more complex.

Equiduct OrangeVBBO Sheds Light On Market Fragmentation

Date 04/12/2008

Equiduct, the pan-European platform, today announces the launch of a major marketing initiative for the OrangeVBBO, a European real-time consolidated tape for liquid equities. The OrangeVBBO consolidates all the relevant market data (including currently the London Stock Exchange, Chi-X, Turquoise, BATS, Nasdaq OMX, Xetra and NYSE Euronext markets) into a single virtual book. Thus it presents not only an unbiased price benchmark for Exchange and MTF traded liquid stocks, but also the true best
CFTC Facilitates The Filing Of Public Comments

Date 04/12/2008

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has created a new web page on CFTC.gov to facilitate the filing of public comments. This new page continues the CFTC’s efforts to make CFTC.gov more user-friendly and improve its service to the public.
ULLINK Provides Certified DMA To SmartPool

Date 04/12/2008

ULLINK, global supplier of end-to-end connectivity and trading solutions, today became a fully-certified provider of Direct Market Access (DMA) connectivity technology to SmartPool, the multi-lateral trading facility set up by NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC, and JPMorgan. SmartPool is dedicated to trading large blocks of stocks in 14 different European markets and ULLINK’s gateway will support the full scope of functionality provided by the alternat
CME Group Receives Regulatory Approval For Changes To Wheat Contract - Seasonal Storage Fees, Additional Delivery Points To Improve Convergence

Date 04/12/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given regulatory approval for changes to its world benchmark Soft Red Winter Wheat futures contract. The changes, which include seasonal storage fees and additional delivery points, are designed to improve convergence between wheat futures and cash prices at contract expiration.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 04/12/2008

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, December 2, 2008: