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Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 13/12/2005

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, December 13, 2005: Erdene Gold Inc. (TSXVN:ERD) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to the TSX to trade under the same ticker symbol. BPI Industries Inc. (TSXVN:BPR) will be removed from the index. The company is being delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange but it will continue to be listed on AMEX under the name BPI Energy Inc. and
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 13/12/2005

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes as a result of the Quarterly S&P/TSX Composite Index Review. These changes will be effective after the close of business on Friday, December 16, 2005:
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P Japan SmallCap 250, S&P Japan MidCap100, And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 13/12/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250, S&P Japan MidCap100, and S&P Japan 500 indices effective after the close of trading Tuesday, December 20th 2005: Chiba Bank Ltd (Japan, SEDOL: 6190563, GICS: Financials, GICS Code: 40101015 ) a member of the S&P Japan MidCap 100 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 50,000,000 to 895,521,087 due to the public offering. Nissan Diesel Motor Co Ltd (Japan, SEDOL: 6642826, GICS: Ind
Speech By SEC Chairman: Remarks Before The Economic Club

Date 13/12/2005

Chairman Christopher Cox U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission New York, New York December 12, 2005 Thank you, Barbara. I'm delighted to be here this evening, because it's a great honor to address the Economic Club of New York. Over the years you've established yourselves as the foremost non-partisan forum for economic discussion in the country. You've provided the venue for speeches by Presidents and Prime Ministers, not to mention the occ
RTS Realtime Systems Group Hires John J. Dempsey To Strengthen Business Development

Date 13/12/2005

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading Independent Software Vendor, announces today that it has hired John J. Dempsey to further expand its business development efforts in new sales areas globally.

Quarterly Rebalancing For S&P/MIB Index

Date 13/12/2005

Standard & Poor’s as part of the quarterly rebalancing, will change the shares outstanding and the Investible Weight Factors for the S&P/MIB effective at the open of business Monday, December 19, 2005.
Peter Freeman Appointed As New Competition Commission Chairman

Date 13/12/2005

Peter Freeman has today been appointed as the new Chairman of the Competition Commission (CC).
NYSE Composite Index Sets New Closing High

Date 13/12/2005

The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index® (NYA) closed at a new high of 7825.00. The previous closing high for the NYA was 7790.99 on Dec. 12.
NYBOT Announces Hungarian Forint Futures Contract Actions

Date 13/12/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective with the March 2006 futures contracts, the Exchange is implementing amendments to its rules concerning the Last Trading Day for the euro-forint and the dollar-forint futures contracts. The amendments provide that the last trading day for these contracts will be the second business day prior to the third Wednesday of the expiry month. The change makes the last trading day for these contracts consistent with last trading day pr
November 2005 Performance Review Of The Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks - A Monthly Report From Dow Jones Indexes On The Performance Of The Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks

Date 13/12/2005

Five of the six hedge fund strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes posted gains in November. Convertible arbitrage was the only benchmark down for the month and is the only strategy in drawdown for 2005.