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KCBT Raises Minimum Margins For Wheat Contract - Margins Increased For Hard Red Winter Wheat Futures Contract

Date 09/10/2006

The Kansas City Board of Trade has raised its minimum margins for wheat futures contracts. In addition, spread trades have been separated into two categories: intra-crop year spread and old crop/new crop spread.
NYSE Introduces The First Indexes Based On NYSE-Listed IPOs And Spin-Offs - Indexes Tracking Unique Growth Of New Listings On The NYSE

Date 09/10/2006

NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) announced the recent launch of the NYSE IPOX Composite (NYSE: IPO.ID) and NYSE IPOX U.S. Indexes (NYSE: IPY.ID), which provide investors with transparent and systematic exposure to recent initial public offerings (IPOs) and spin-offs listed on the NYSE. Based on a modified market capitalization weighted methodology measuring the average performance of domestic and international new issues, the NYSE IPO Indexes employ unbiased entrance and exit rules based on the ind
Regulation Of Commodity Markets - Speech By Hector Sants, Managing Director, Wholesale & Institutional Markets, UK's Financial Services Authority, LME Annual Metals Seminar, 9 October 2006

Date 09/10/2006

Introduction Good morning ladies and gentlemen. First may I say thank you to the London Metal Exchange for inviting me to speak at this conference. It is clearly timely for me to be here this year as the commodities markets have come closer to centre stage and the LME is considering its options for the future. What I want to do today is to make some remarks about the role the FSA and financial services regulation has to play in this market.
Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index

Date 09/10/2006

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index.
Share Changes For Boral Limited And Foster’s Group Limited In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 09/10/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes to the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006:

CBOT: Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Friday, October 6

Date 09/10/2006

A list of some of the Chicago Board of Trade's top daily volume and open interest records from the previous business day.
Experian Group Limited Share Amount In The S&P European Indices

Date 09/10/2006

As announced on 4 October 2006, Standard & Poor’s will add Experian Group Plc to the S&P Europe 350 and S&P United Kingdom indices, effective after the close of trading on Tuesday 10 October 2006: Experian Group Limited (United Kingdom, SEDOL: B19NLV4, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20201030) will be added to the index with 1,024,436,543 shares outstanding. The Investable Weight Factor will be 1.
ISE Announces Launch Of Second Market For Options

Date 09/10/2006

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE: ISE) today announced that trading in its Second Market for options will begin on October 16, 2006. ISE developed its Second Market to provide its members with a distinct platform that will leverage ISE's leading community of market makers and proven, competitive market structure to create additional liquidity in options that have typically experienced lower trading volumes.
HKEx Publishes Trading Statistics For September 2006

Date 09/10/2006

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor Main Board + Trading Only Stocks Turnover (in HK$ Mil.)
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner For Internal Market and Services - Building An EU Integrated Market In A Globalised World - World Congress Of Financial Executives, Berlin, 9 October 2006

Date 09/10/2006

Introduction Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to speak at your World Congress of Financial Executives and to share with you my views on the European Financial Services Integration in an ever more globalised word. After this morning's very dense agenda, I have the privilege to be the last barrier between you and lunch. You can trust me, I will treat it as an obstacle impeding the single market in financial services: it will take a little time but I will succ