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NYBOT Announces Change To Polarization Allowances For Its Sugar No. 11 Futures Contract

Date 24/09/2004

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that commencing with the October 2006 delivery month, the exchange is implementing an amendment to its sugar rule revising the polarization allowances or premiums for sugar deliverable under the Sugar No. 11 futures contract. The amendment will add a new, additional allowance of 0.1% of the notice price for each full 1/10th of a degree from 99.0 to 99.3 degrees polarization. Currently, no additional allowance is paid for polarization above
NASDAQ President And CEO Delivered Speech On "Institutional Trading In The Current Market Environment"

Date 24/09/2004

Click here to view a speech delivered yesterday by NASDAQ President and CEO Bob Greifeld on "Institutional Trading In The Current Market Environment".
MSCI Hedge Fund Indices Performance – August 2004

Date 24/09/2004

MSCI announced yesterday its August 2004 performance figures for the MSCI Hedge Fund Indices SM . Below is a summary of performance data for selected indices.
Growth Continues For Clearstream's Global Securities Financing Services

Date 24/09/2004

Clearstream announced at the 9th Global Securities Financing Summit that the growth of its business in this sector continued to rise. Clearstream's Tripartite Repo service experienced daily outstandings surpassing the EUR 81.36 billion in August 2004 and average outstandings in the same month are now 37.3% higher than the same period last year, with a peak of EUR 143 billion in June. Additionally, Clearstream's Tripartite services continue to be 'top rated' by Global Custodian Magazine's annu
Genting Berhad And Commerce Asset-Holding List Their Foreign Currency Bonds On Labuan International Financial Exchange

Date 24/09/2004

Genting Berhad and Commerce Asset-Holding Berhad (CAHB) have become the latest leading Malaysian groups to have primary listing of their foreign currency bonds on the Labuan International Financial Exchange (LFX).

Euronext: Buy Back Program

Date 24/09/2004

Pursuant to its buy back program, Euronext N.V. holds at as 15 September, 2004, 5.07% of its own shares which break down as follows:
Standard & Poor's Announces Investable Weight Factor Change For RCS MediaGroup SPA In The S&P/MIB Index

Date 23/09/2004

Standard & Poor’s will change the IWF (Investable Weight Factor) for RCS MediaGroup SPA (Italy, ISIN IT0003039010) a member of the S&P/MIB Index from 0.479 to 0.387 effective at the close of trading Tuesday, September 28, 2004. This is following the entrance of the new participants (Paflux SA, Merloni Invest SPA and Capitalia Gruppo Bancario) to the existing shareholders agreement (patto di sindicato).
Special Realignment Of Korea Corporate Governance Stock Price Index

Date 23/09/2004

Kookmin Bank(A060000) has to be excluded from the constituents of KOGI on September 23 because it was submitted to a disciplinary measure from the Financial Supervisory Commission. Replacement Korea Exchange Bank(A004940)
Share Quantities In BALTIX For Q4 2004

Date 23/09/2004

The BALTIX index is a capitalization-weighted chain-linked total return index that is to be launched on September 27, 2004. The index is calculated daily using the most recent official closing prices of all shares listed on the Main Lists of the Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius stock exchanges. The index constituents are subject to quarterly weight limits of 10% of the compound market capitalization and the weight-limits are applied during quarterly rebalancing by reducing the indexed share quantities.
SEC Charges Former Hawaiian Airlines CEO For Failing To Disclose Adverse Financial Information During Tender Offer - Ex-CEO, Controlling Shareholder Agree To Settle Charges, Pay $2.5 Million In Disgorgement

Date 23/09/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed charges against John W. Adams, the former Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., and AIP LLC, an entity managed by Adams that held a controlling interest in Hawaiian Airlines. Adams and AIP were charged for their role in Hawaiian's failure to disclose important negative financial information to shareholders in a tender offer from which Adams and AIP each benefited.