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Speech By SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson: Remarks From Directors College At Stanford University Law School, June 20, 2004

Date 23/06/2004

Speech by SEC Chairman: Remarks from Directors College at Stanford University Law School by William H. Donaldson Chairman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Stanford, CA June 20, 2004 Thanks Joe, and thanks for inviting me to join you to help you kick off this year's Directors College. This is my second appearance before this esteemed group. I had the pleasure of attending over a year ago, a few
Speech By Mr Frits Bolkestein, Member Of The European Commission, In Charge Of The Internal Market, Taxation And Customs - Financial Services Action Plan – Lessons Learned And Ideas For The Future - Closing Remarks At The Conference On European Financial

Date 23/06/2004

Closing remarks at the conference on European Financial Integration : Progress and ProspectsPalais d’Egmont, Brussels, 23rd June 2004 Ministers, distinguished guests, Ladies, Gentlemen, I am pleased to see that so many of you have lasted the pace. I hope that this is testimony to a stimulating day and a half of discussions. The conference had two principal objectives: First, that it should draw the lessons from the FSAP experience so that
Speech by John Tiner - European Financial Integration: Progress And Prospects - European Commission Conference, Brussels

Date 23/06/2004

European Financial Integration: progress and prospects European Commission Conference, Brussels 22 June 2004 1. The completion of the legislative phase of the Financial Services Action Plan represents a significant achievement towards the completion of the single market in financial services in the European Union. Thi
Share Changes In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 23/06/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Monday 28th June, 2004: Insurance Australia Group Limited (Australia, SEDOL: 6271026, GICS Code: 40301040) a member of the S&P/ASX 50 Index will decrease its shares by 94,086,144 to 1,558,640,000. This change is due to an off market buy-back. There is no change to the IWF.
Securities Industry Association: SEC Short-Sale Pilot Is ‘Thoughtful, Prudent’ Approach To Phasing In Reforms To Benefit Investors

Date 23/06/2004

Today’s decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a pilot program in which a group of stocks would be free of existing short-sale trading restrictions is a “thoughtful, prudent” approach to phasing in reforms to protect investors, the Securities Industry Association today said.

Securities Industry Association Testifies On Basel II Accord

Date 23/06/2004

Michael Alix, chair of the Securities Industry Association’s Risk Management Committee and senior managing director, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., testified before the House Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit about the benefits of the Consolidated Supervised Entities regime as proposed in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s new Capital Accord (or “Basel II”). The CSE f
SEC Adopts Changes To Short Sale Rules, Disclosures Regarding Advisory Contract Approval And Investment Company Governance Provisions

Date 23/06/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt changes to its rules regarding short selling; its requirements for disclosures by investment companies concerning board approval of advisory contracts; and its investment company exemptive rules, designed to improve fund governance practices.
S&P Announces Changes To S&P U.S. Indices

Date 23/06/2004

Standard & Poor’s will be making changes to the S&P 500, S&P 100, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices.
Nymex To List PJM Monthly Electricity Futures Through 2007

Date 23/06/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will list a fourth year of trading in the PJM monthly electricity futures contract, beginning tomorrow at 3:15 PM on NYMEX ClearPortsm for Friday's trading session.
NASDAQ Closing Cross Used To Calculate Russell Indexes - Russell Hosts NASDAQ Market Open Ceremony To Mark Occasion

Date 23/06/2004

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ®) and Russell Investment Group today announced approximately 1,700 NASDAQ securities are now included in the NASDAQ Closing Cross, which will be used in the calculation of the entire family of Russell indexes during their annual reconstitution on June 25. The Russell indexes contain 98-percent of the market capitalization of all publicly-traded companies in the U.S. and assets indexed to Russell indexes have grown more than 186-percent over the past five yea