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Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 19/03/2003

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Wednesday, March 19, 2003: Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (TSXVN:KGI) will be removed from the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index. The shares of the company will be delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange at that time. The company will graduate to the TSX to trade under the symbol "KGI" effective at the opening of trading on Thursday, March 20, 2003.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Composite Index

Date 19/03/2003

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Friday, March 21, 2003 the relative weights of the companies in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices will be adjusted. The relative weight change reflects the quarterly update to the float shares of various companies. Changes to the indices are in accordance with S&P/TSX Composite Index Maintenance Policies. Also effective on the same date will be the revisions resulting from the Annual Review of the TS
Securities And Exchange Commission: Household International Agrees to Cease-and-Desist Order for False and Misleading Statements About Restructuring Policies Concerning Delinquent Loans

Date 19/03/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission has entered an Order Instituting Public Cease-and-Desist Proceedings, Making Findings, and Imposing Cease-and-Desist Order Pursuant to Section 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 finding that Household International Inc. violated the antifraud and reporting provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Household consented to the entry of the Order without admitting or denying the fin
SEC Commissioners To Attend PCAOB Roundtable On Proposal For Registering Foreign Accounting Firms

Date 19/03/2003

Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission plan to attend a March 31 roundtable meeting organized by the new Public Company Oversight Accounting Board to examine issues relating to registration and oversight of foreign public accounting firms.
SEC Charges HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy With $1.4 Billion Accounting Fraud - Trading In HealthSouth Securities Is Suspended - Commission Action Seeks Injunction, Money Penalties, Officer And Director Bar

Date 19/03/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged HealthSouth Corp., the nation's largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic and rehabilitative healthcare services, and its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Richard M. Scrushy with a massive accounting fraud. The Commission's complaint, filed in federal district court in Birmingham, Ala., alleges that since 1999, at the insistence of Scrushy, HealthSouth systematically overstated its earnings by at least $1.4 billion in order to mee

Robert F. Corvino Appointed CBOT Vice Chairman

Date 19/03/2003

The Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) yesterday appointed Robert F. Corvino as Exchange Vice Chairman to fill the position vacated by Charles P. Carey, who was elected CBOT® Chairman on March 12, 2003. Mr. Corvino was reelected on March 12 to a one-year term as a full member director.
Quarterly Review Euronext 100 index & Next 150 index

Date 19/03/2003

As a result of the quarterly review of 28 February 2003 the following changes for the Euronext 100 index and Next 150 index will be effective as of Tuesday 1 April 2003.
OneChicago Coordination With Regulators, Underlying Markets

Date 19/03/2003

Given the current geopolitical situation, OneChicago has received a number of inquiries regarding our procedures for coordinating special trading hours with other U.S. exchanges and regulatory agencies in the event of a disruption in the U.S. capital markets.
First European Corporate Bond ETF In XTF Segment - Deutsche Börse European Market Leader In Trading Of ETFs

Date 19/03/2003

The first European exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on European corporate bonds has been trading in Deutsche Börse's XTF segment since Wednesday. The iBoxx € Liquid Corporates ETF (ISIN: DE0002511243) is issued by iShares PLC, a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors (BGI). The ETF tracks the iBoxx € Liquid Corporates Index, which comprises 40 investment grade corporate bonds. The index provider iBoxx is a joint venture of seven investment banks and Deutsche Börse.
Eight Elected to Board Of Nymex And NYMEX Holdings

Date 19/03/2003

The shareholders of NYMEX Holdings, Inc., yesterday elected the following individuals to its board of directors, as well as that of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.: Stephen Ardizzone, John McNamara, David Greenberg, Jesse Harte, Joel Faber, Scott Hess, John Conheeney, and E. Bulkeley Griswold.