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  • MSCI Barra Announces Methodology Enhancements To The MSCI GCC Countries Indices And Transition Plan

    Date 07/11/2007

    MSCI Barra announced today, following a consultation with market participants, enhancements to the methodology of the MSCI Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) Countries Indices. The enhancements create a framework similar to that under the MSCI Global Investable Market Indices Methodology which aims to provide exhaustive representation and non-overlapping size segmentation of the investable universe. The enhanced MSCI GCC Countries Indices Methodology accounts for the specific structure of the GC

  • NYMEX To Change Margins For Heating Oil, Related Futures Contracts

    Date 07/11/2007

    The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. announced today that it will change margins for the heating oil, New York Harbor heating oil calendar swap, heating oil financial, and NYMEX miNYTM heating oil futures contracts, beginning at the close of business tomorrow.

  • Manor Care (HCR) In The S&P 500

    Date 07/11/2007

    The Carlyle Group’s (a private equity firm) acquisition of HCR is expected to be completed after the close of trading on Thursday, November 8, not November 7 as previously announced. As a result, S&P MidCap 400 constituent Pepco Holdings Inc. (POM) will replace Manor Care in the S&P 500, S&P SmallCap 600 constituent Energen Corp. (EGN) will replace Pepco in the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P REIT Composite constituent DiamondRock Hospitality Co. (DRH) will replace Energen in the S&P SmallCap 600 after t

  • NYMEX To Change Margins For Crude Oil, Related Futures Contracts

    Date 07/11/2007

    The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for its crude oil and related futures contracts, beginning at the close of business tomorrow.

  • BOX’s Average Price Improvement Remains At Near-Record Level, ‘Make or Take’ Is Expanded

    Date 07/11/2007

    In the month of October, price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via the Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) price improvement auction (‘PIP’*) averaged $3.92 per contract, just slightly shy of the all-time record set last August. An average of 64,403 contracts per day received price improvement during the month. This represented savings to investors of $5.8 million. With this amount, BOX has reached $153 million in savings to investors since inception.