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CBOT Chairman Statement On Minority Member Lawsuit Ruling

Date 20/09/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) Chairman Charles P. Carey issued the following statement in response to today's hearing regarding the Minority Member lawsuit in which Cook County Circuit Court Judge Patrick McGann approved the settlement agreement reached between the exchange and the minority members.
Borsa Italiana: Great Success Of The Rollover To The New S&P/MIB Derivatives - On Its First Day As The Reference Index For The Italian Market, Over 22,000 Lots Were Traded On The IDEM, Combining Futures, Minifutures And Options

Date 20/09/2004

The positions of the S&P/MIB futures were successfully rolled from the September to the December expiry last Friday.
Bolsa De Madrid Trades 54 New Warrants Issued By Bankinter

Date 20/09/2004

Bolsa de Madrid today began trading 54 new warrants issued by Bankinter. The underlying assets for the warrants are Spanish shares and indices.
Warsaw Stock Exchange Announces Quarterly Changes In Main Indices Portfolios

Date 17/09/2004

After close of business on September 17, 2004, WSE executed periodic changes in main indices’ portfolios.
The MICEX Holds An Auction To Distribute The Bank Of Russia’s Bonds

Date 17/09/2004

Today, the MICEX Government Securities Section has held an auction to distribute non-coupon bonds of the Bank of Russia with the volume of issue equal to 50 billlion rubles at par. 34,513 billlion rubles worth of bonds were distributed with the amount of revenues amounting to 34,495 billlion rubles. The stop-out price was 99,9472% of the nominal value, the yield to maturity at the stop-out price was 1,75% of yearly interest, the average weighted price amounted to 99,9488% and the average weighte

Thailand’s Finance Minister Reveals Plan To Turn MAI Into Funding Source For New Entrepreneurs

Date 17/09/2004

The Finance Minister said, after meeting with representatives from Thailand's capital market, that the adjustment of rules for companies planning to list on the SET and the Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) is aimed at upgrading the shares of SET-listed firms to become funding sources for bigger and stronger corporations. The Finance Minister thus sees the MAI as a market that new entrepreneurs can count on to be there as a source of funding and as a guarantee for their future.
Thailand Finance Minister Reassures Everyone That There’ll Be More Stock Surveillance Measures

Date 17/09/2004

The Finance Minister revealed, after a meeting with relevant organizations in the capital market, that he has demanded that the SET increase its measures on trading surveillance for some specific groups of stocks, such as those having undergone the debt restructuring process and those with rumors.
SWX Swiss Exchange Imposes Sanctions On Swiss Over Breach Of Ad Hoc-Publicity Rules

Date 17/09/2004

The Disciplinary Commission of the SWX Swiss Exchange has imposed a fine of CHF 10,000 on Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. (Swiss) and ordered that the sanction be published. Despite previous incidents in which information had been repeatedly leaked from the company, it is alleged that in 2003 Swiss took no precautions to enable it to inform the necessary bodies immediately in the event of new indiscretions.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Quarterly Rebalancing For The S&P ADR Indices

Date 17/09/2004

As part of the S&P Asia 50 IWF and share rebalancing, Standard & Poor’s will make changes in the IWFs and number of ADRs used for the purposes of calculating the S&P ADR Indices. The changes will be effective at the close of business on Friday, October 8, 2004.
Singapore Exchange Appoints Three New Board Members

Date 17/09/2004

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is pleased to appoint Mr Lee Hsien Yang, Ms Olivia Lum Ooi Lin and Mr Robert Owen to the SGX board