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The FUTOP Clearing Centre To Introduce Swedish Derivatives

Date 02/10/2003

On Monday 6 October 2003, the FUTOP Clearing Centre is going to introduce standardised futures and options contracts on individual Swedish shares and the OMX Index.
SEC: Kimberly Rodgers Selected As Academic Scholar In Office Of Economic Analysis

Date 02/10/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Economic Analysis today announced the appointment of Kimberly J. Rodgers as a visiting academic scholar for a one-year term. Professor Rodgers is currently a faculty member in the finance department of the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University.
SEC Division Of Corporation Finance Selects Mary Greenawalt As Academic Accounting Fellow

Date 02/10/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance recently selected Mary Brady Greenawalt as the academic accounting fellow for a one-year term beginning August 2003. Professor Greenawalt holds the First Union National Bank Chair in accounting at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C. She teaches financial accounting, auditing, and managerial accounting. Previously at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., for twelve years, she has also been an accounting professor at Guilf
RTS Stock Exchange Order-Driven Market: September Market Data

Date 02/10/2003

For the period of September 1st – September 30th, 2003, total trading volume of direct and indirect transactions (including REPO transactions) totaled 18 997 million rubles, compared with 14 090 million in August. Internet trading accounted for 35% of total trading volume in rubles. 25 161 transactions were closed, up from 23 322 transactions in August 2003.
RTS Stock Exchange Classic Market: September Market Data

Date 02/10/2003

In September 2003 the total trading volume on Classic Market equaled 502 million US dollars, 49% up on 336 million dollars in August. Shares traded on the Classic market 4 595 times, compared with 3 404 times in August.

RTS Stock Exchange Bonds: September Market Data

Date 02/10/2003

For the month of September the total trading volume on RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, increased from 34 478 to 38 352 thousand rubles. Moscow City Bonds accounted for 57%of total turnover; “Obibank” bonds – for 28% of total volume, “Tatmetall” bonds – for 8% of total volume, and “IRKUT” – for 7% of the total volume. In September fixed-income securities traded 16 times.
Program Trading Averaged 40.2 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Sept. 22-Sept. 26, 2003

Date 02/10/2003

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Sept. 22-26, 2003.
NYSE Webcasts Post-Board Press Briefing

Date 02/10/2003

NYSE Interim Chairman and CEO John S. Reed, Executive Vice Chairman, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Robert G. Britz and Executive Vice Chairman, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Catherine R. Kinney brief the media following the Exchange's October 2 board meeting.
New York Attorney General and Securities and Exchange Commission Bring Criminal and Civil Actions Against Hedge Fund Executive - Trader Pleads Guilty To A Felony In NYAG's Action; Agrees To Lifetime Bar From Association With An Investment Adviser Or Mutua

Date 02/10/2003

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced criminal and civil actions against Steven B. Markovitz, formerly an executive and senior trader with the prominent hedge fund firm Millennium Partners, L.P.In the New York Attorney General's criminal action, Markovitz pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court to a violation of New York's Martin Act, General Business Law Section 3.52-c(6). The count is a felony, punishable by a maximum of fo
New Market For Polish Government Bonds To Be Launched

Date 02/10/2003

MTS S.p.A. and Centralna Tabela Ofert (CeTO) announced today that they have signed a letter of intent for the implementation of a domestic Polish government bond market, based on the MTS system. CeTO is the designated Polish electronic Treasury securities market owned by the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the Polish Primary Dealers, the brokerage houses and the Ministry of Finance.