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American Stock Exchange Reports Increase In Short Interest

Date 22/02/2006

The American Stock Exchange (Amex) member and non-member organizations today reported short interest of 836,516,337 shares as of the February 15, 2006 settlement date, an increase of 76,280,147 from the 760,236,190 (adjusted) shares reported in mid-January. The February figure represents trades through February 10, 2006.
Actively Managed Canadian Equity Funds Continue To Lag Indices In 2005, Says S&P - Latest SPIVA Report For Canada Shows Actively Managed Canadian Small-Cap Funds Fare Better

Date 22/02/2006

Actively managed mutual funds in the Canadian and U.S. equity categories continued to lag their respective benchmarks (the S&P/TSX Composite Index and S&P 500 Index) in 2005, Standard & Poor's said today. According to the Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) for Canada, the S&P/TSX Composite Index outperformed 87.1% of actively managed Canadian equity funds in 2005, while the S&P 500 Index (measured in Canadian dollars) outperformed 57.8% of U.S. equity funds. Activel
Tokyo Stock Exchange Number Of Orders And Executions

Date 21/02/2006

Current Number of Orders and Executions Date
Tokyo Financial Exchange Trading Of Interest Rate Etc. Financial Futures Contracts Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 28 February 2006

Date 21/02/2006

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 28 February 2006, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am.
The Oscars 2006: Performance Of The Dow Jones Media Titans 30 vs. Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 vs. Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index

Date 21/02/2006

Hollywood is celebrating the 78th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony on March 5, 2005. The Dow Jones Media Titans Index tracks the industry and thus the financial impact of movies like the blockbusters.

SWIFT Awards The New SWIFTReady Label To Volanté Technologies

Date 21/02/2006

VOLANTÉ TECHNOLOGIES, INC., the leading provider of platform independent data management solutions to Financial Services Industry announced today that SWIFT has conferred upon it the SWIFTReady Messaging Library certification. Volanté’s products which run in J2EE and .NET environments are applicable to a wide variety of solutions used by the financial services industry including payments, corporate actions, market data and trade processing.
STOXX, Ltd. Changes The Composition Of The European Benchmark Indexes First Regular Quarterly Review To Be Effective On March 20, 2006

Date 21/02/2006

STOXX, Ltd. today announced changes in the composition of the Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 Index, the Dow Jones STOXX Total Market Index, the Dow Jones STOXX 600 Index and its sector indexes, the Dow Jones EU Enlarged Total Market Index and the Dow Jones STOXX Football Index.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 21/02/2006

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes effective after the close of business on Wednesday, February 22, 2006: Dofasco Inc. (TSX:DFS) will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX 60 and 60 Capped, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the Provisional S&P/TSX Composite and the S&P/TSX Capped Materials Indices. Glamis Gold Ltd. (TSX:GLG) will replace Dofasco Inc. in the S&P/TSX 60 and 60 Capped Indices. Fording
SGX, FTSE Group And Yasaar Research Launch First Asian Shariah-Compliant Index

Date 21/02/2006

Singapore Exchange (SGX) in partnership with FTSE Group (FTSE), and Yasaar Research (Yasaar) today launched the FTSE SGX Asia Shariah 100 Index.
SGX Inks Listing MOU With Wuxi Municipal People's Government

Date 21/02/2006

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Wuxi Municipal People's Government (WMPG) of Jiangsu Province in China to promote listings of Wuxi companies on SGX.