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EEX Trading Results And New Admissions In July

Date 05/08/2008

Electricity trading volume on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in July 2008 totalled 144.2 TWh, compared with 97.5 TWh in July 2007.

NASDAQ OMX Announces July 2008 Market Performance Statistics For U.S. And Nordic Exchanges - Equity Trading Records Set On The NASDAQ Stock Market For The Second - Consecutive Month - NASDAQ's Lead In Matched Market Share Of All U.S.-Listed Equities Conti

Date 05/08/2008

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.(sm) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of July 2008.

ASX Monthly Activity Report - July 2008

Date 05/08/2008

July 2008 activity and value levels across many Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) markets were lower than the previous corresponding period, July 2007 (pcp), despite cash market trades setting a new monthly volume record.

Shanghai Stock Exchange President Zhang: Cultivate Eligible Investors - "Four Measures" On Cultivation Of Eligible Investors - SSE To Introduce Entry System, Blacklist System And Market Entry-bar System Of Investors

Date 05/08/2008

At the "International Symposium on Developing and Improving Investors Protection System on China's Securities Market", President Zhang Yujun of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) proposed that the cultivation of eligible investors be accelerated to deal with individual investors' excessive speculation and trading.

ROFEX: Strong Increase In Financial Futures Trading

Date 05/08/2008

Upon the conclusion of the financial year, ROFEX registered a significant growth in financial futures trading. The contract volume reached in the Financial Derivatives Division (DDF) between August 2007 and July 2008 was of 36,115,144 contracts, up 69% from the previous period.

S&P Releases Special Edition Bear Market SPIVA - Majority Of Active Funds Underperform Indices During Last Bear Market

Date 05/08/2008

Standard & Poor's Index Services, the world's leading index provider, released today the results of its first study on the performance of indices versus active Canadian funds in bear markets. The report, which focuses on the period August 2000 to December 2002, seeks to compare the performance of indices versus active mutual funds during a bear market. The findings are part of a special edition of Standard & Poor's Quarterly produced Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) f

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Measures For Preventing A Reoccurrence Of The Derivatives Trading System Malfunction

Date 05/08/2008

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) would like to offer its sincere apologies to investors and the many others involved in its markets for the inconvenience caused by the Derivatives Trading System malfunction that occurred on July 22, 2008.

Tokyo Grain Exchange: Change of Margins For Corn And Non-GMO Soybeans Contracts

Date 05/08/2008

Margin Requirements for August 2008 (2)

OES Marketgroup Europe Formed - OES Set To Launch Pan-European Routing And Linkage - Names Peter Keller Managing Director

Date 05/08/2008

OES MarketGroup, the leading independent provider of routing and linkage services to the securities industry, today announced the formation of OES MarketGroup Europe, designed to be the first truly independent pan-European financial service provider linking European securities exchanges and newly emerging liquidity pools.

Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) - First Regional Launch In Singapore By Securities & Investment Institute And Praesidium

Date 05/08/2008

Today, the Sharia’a finance and banking industry is one of the fastest growing markets in the world and is estimated to be worth more than US$1 trillion dollars in the next 2 years. Unaffected by the subprime crisis, projections suggest that this market will grow by 15% per year over the next decade and will account for 60% of the savings of the World’s 1.2 Billion Muslim community, in that same period.