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CME Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 07/01/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has announced the following trading schedule for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday (all times are Central time): Friday, January 16 Commodity, foreign exchange, interest rate and GSCI products traded on Exchange trading floors close at 12:00 noon. (Commodity options close at 12:02 p.m.) Equity index products close at their regularly scheduled times (3:15 p.m.)
Chicago Stock Exchange December And 2003 Annual Volume Release

Date 07/01/2004

Total Monthly Volume December 2003 December 2002 Percent Change Total Share Volume 1,676,171,155 1,809,570,298 -
Channel Islands Stock Exchange Designation By UK Financial Services Authority

Date 07/01/2004

The Board of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX/Exchange) is pleased to announce that the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has designated the CISX as a Designated Investment Exchange (DIE), with effect from 1 February 2004.
CBOT®’s Mini-Sized Gold Futures Contract Sets Volume Record

Date 07/01/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that a new daily volume record was set for mini-sized Gold futures with 2,648 contracts traded on January 6, 2004, breaking the previous record of 2,344 contracts set on November 25, 2003.
CanDeal Launches On-Line Provincial Bond Trading Market - CanDeal Provincial Bond Market Is Officially Launched Following Six Weeks Of Live Testing With Leading Buy Side And Sell Side Participants

Date 07/01/2004

CanDeal, Canada's leading on-line institutional multi-dealer to client debt securities trading network, today announced it has launched its Provincial Bond Market.

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Focus On Canola Futures Prices Throughout 2003

Date 06/01/2004

The January canola futures contract at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) closed 2003 at $364.50 per metric tonne, ending a year that saw the nearby futures contract price swing over $100.00 per tonne. The nearby futures series closed as high as $433.30 in early January and as low as $328.00 in July. The high for the January contract was established early in the year when it settled at $396.50 on January 9, 2003, although it closed just shy of this level in late October, 2003. The low for th
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Feed Grain Volumes Post Gains From A Year Ago

Date 06/01/2004

Feed wheat futures contract volume rose 108.6% in December from the level recorded a year ago, with 4,231 contracts trading. Western barley trade increased by 1.9% from last December with volume reaching 10,977 futures contracts.
SWX Swiss Exchange Key Figures December 2003

Date 06/01/2004

Trading days: 19 SWX Products
SWX Swiss Exchange And virt-x: Key Figures Jan.-Dec. 2003

Date 06/01/2004

Trading days: 246
Statement By New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Regarding The Investment Company Institute's Mutual Fund Fee Report

Date 06/01/2004

The report released today by the Investment Company Institute is fundamentally flawed because it considered only the advisory fees charged by sub-advisors. Sub-advisors are external managers that are hired by mutual fund managers to give investment advice. The fees that they charge are the product of competitive bidding and arms-length negotiations. It is therefore not surprising that those fees are lower than those charged by most mutual funds and closer to the advisory fees paid by pension fun