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The NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) Exchange Traded Fund available To Japanese Investors - World's Most Actively Traded ETF Available From Japanese Brokers

Date 17/05/2004

NASDAQ Financial Products Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. (“NASDAQ;” OTCBB:NDAQ), today announced Japan's Financial Services Agency received a notification on May 14th for the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) to be sold as a security through brokers in Japan. This move reflects strong demand from leading distributors of investment products.
SWX Swiss Exchange: austriamicrosystems AG Opens At CHF 35

Date 17/05/2004

The shares of austriamicrosystems AG, an Austrian semiconductor manufacturer, were traded today for the first time in the SWX Swiss Exchange's main trading segment. The offering price was set this past weekend at CHF 35 and the stock opened at the same price in its debut on SWX, thus representing a total market capitalization for the company of CHF 385 million.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 17/05/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Wednesday May 19th, 2004:
SEC: Barry Rashkover, Northeast Regional Office Associate Regional Director And Co-Head Of Enforcement, To Leave Commission

Date 17/05/2004

Barry W. Rashkover, Associate Regional Director and Co-Head of Enforcement for the Commission's Northeast Regional Office, announced today that he will leave the Commission in June to become a partner in the law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. Rashkover, 43, has served as served as Co-Head of Enforcement of the SEC's Northeast Regional Office since June 2000. Before that, he held various other positions as part of the office's enforcement staff including Assistant Regional Director and S
S&P Equity Long/Short Index Goes Live - Newest Alternative Index Data Now Available

Date 17/05/2004

Standard & Poor’s, the independent financial research, ratings and indices leader, today announced the launch of the S&P Equity Long/Short Index. Performance, constituents and index methodology are available on www.sp-hedgefundindex.comand by the ticker symbol SPHGELS.

RTS Stock Exchange Order-Driven Market: Weekly Market Data May 5th – May 14th, 2004

Date 17/05/2004

For the week of May 5th – May 14th, 2004, the total trading volume of direct and indirect transactions (including REPO transactions) reached 12 400 million rubles. Internet trading accounted for 40%, slightly up from 37% the week before. 15 704 transactions were executed, 28% more than the week before.
RTS Stock Exchange Classic Market: Weekly Market Data May 11th – May 14th, 2004

Date 17/05/2004

For the week of May 11th – May 14th, 2004, the RTS Index lost 0.71points and closed at 596.87. The RTS Technical Index closed 0.27 points down from the previous week’s 657.19 point.
New York Mercantile Exchange Names New Senior Vice President

Date 17/05/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., has retained Sean Keating as its senior vice president of clearing services.
National Stock Exchange(SM) Part Of Coalition Issuing Statement On Regulation NMS

Date 17/05/2004

National Stock Exchange (NSX(SM)) today issued a joint statement of principles supporting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposal to bring competition and investor choice to the marketplace though national market system reform. NSX joins Ameritrade, Fidelity Investments, Instinet Group and Nasdaq in conveying a unified viewpoint on the future of the trade-through rule and the "opt out" exception proposed in the SEC's Regulation National Market System (NMS).
Lucent Settles SEC Enforcement Action Charging The Company With $1.1 Billion Accounting Fraud - Lucent Agrees To Pay $25 Million Penalty - SEC Charges 10 Individuals With Securities Fraud

Date 17/05/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Lucent Technologies Inc. with securities fraud, and violations of the reporting, books and records and internal control provisions of the federal securities laws. The SEC also charged nine current and former Lucent officers, executives and employees, and one former Winstar Communications Inc. officer with securities fraud and aiding and abetting Lucent's violations of the federal securities laws. The SEC's complaint alleges that Lucent fraudul