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Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Report

Date 15/11/2005

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Hong Kong's SFC Chairman's Address To Conference on SEC Regulation

Date 15/11/2005

SFC Chairman, Mr Martin Wheatley, gave an opening address today at the Regulators Forum at a conference in Hong Kong on SEC Regulation Outside the United States.
Euronext Reports Good Revenues For Q3 2005: € 234.3 Million, In Progress Of +14.1% Compared To Q3, 2004

Date 15/11/2005

Euronext NV totaled revenues of €234.3m for the third quarter of 2005, a 14.1% increase from the €205.3m(2) achieved during the same period in 2004. Good activity across all business lines and particularly on the cash markets: trading activity was up 37.3% and listing with 16 IPOs was especially dynamic. The sales of software business realised a good performance, revenues increased by +22.8%.
Electrabel Removed From Euronext 100 Index And NextCAC70 Index - Rule Changes To Harmonise Euronext Indices

Date 15/11/2005

New composition of Euronext 100 Index and NextCAC70 Index Following the official result of the takeover bid by the French company Suez (Euronext 100/NextCAC70) for the Belgium company Electrabel (Euronext 100/NextCAC70), Electrabel will be removed from the Euronext 100 Index and NextCAC70 Index effective Friday 18 November 2005. In accordance with the rules of the Euronext 100 Index the removed company will not be replaced immediately, but at the next quarterly review (effec
Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Size And Style Indexes To Underlie Nine Exchange-Traded Funds - ETF Provider SSgA To License Full Dow Jones Wilshire Style Index Family

Date 15/11/2005

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and Wilshire Associates Incorporated, one of the world’s leading investment consulting, investment management and investment technology firms, today announced that five Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Size and Style indexes will serve as the basis of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) being launched by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), a Boston-based leader in institutional investing. SSgA also switched the underlying indexes of four existing ETFs to the

DnB NOR ASA Will Replace Electrabel SA In The S&P European Indices

Date 15/11/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro Indices, effective at the close of trading on Thursday 17th November 2005: DnB NOR ASA (Norway, SEDOL 4263304, GICS: Financials, GICS Code: 40101010) will replace Electrabel SA (Belgium, SEDOL 4294791) in the S&P Europe 350 and S&P Euro Plus indices, after the close of trading on Thursday 17th November 2005. Electrabel SA is being deleted from the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S
Derivatives/IDEM Market Of Borsa Italiana: New Daily Record

Date 15/11/2005

IDEM, the Italian Derivatives Market run by Borsa Italiana, reached today a new volume record of 332,710 contracts traded. The previous record was set on November 14th 2005, with 314,953 contracts traded.
CalPERS Selects Environmental Equity Managers - Firms Will Manage Up To $500 Million

Date 15/11/2005

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) selected six U.S. and international managers to invest up to $500 million in environmental public equity funds.
ASX Grain Futures Expands Contract Offering In New South Wales

Date 15/11/2005

The attached ASX Media Release details the inclusion of New South Wales as an acceptable delivery zone against ASX Grain Futures contracts. With the New South Wales Grain Marketing Act 1991 now expired, NSW growers have the ability to deliver against open positions in ASX Sorghum, ASX Feed Barley and ASX Canola. The expansion of the ASX product offering into NSW gives grain growers more flexibility and control over their marketing arrangements.
Accounting Standards: European Commission Endorses “IAS 39 Fair Value Option”

Date 15/11/2005

The European Commission has adopted a Regulation endorsing the amended International Accounting Standard (IAS) N° 39 on Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement, the “Fair Value Option”. This text was unanimously supported by Member States at the Accounting Regulatory Committee and by the European Parliament. Adoption is retroactive to 1st January 2005, so that companies will be able to apply the amended standard for their 2005 financial statements.