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  • BEL20® Monthly Selection List

    Date 14/11/2003

    Based upon the figures until the end of October 2003, Euronext Brussels communicates the new monthly selection list for the BEL20® index. The first three reserve candidates are Telindus Group, Solvus and Melexis. This list is valid for replacements that would occur from Monday 17 November up to and including Monday 15 December 2003 after trading hours. This list is also available on our website: http://www.stockexchange.be/pd/pdc/endca01.

  • USDA Names NYBOT's Subsidiary eCOPS, LLC, First Official "Provider" Of Electronic Warehouse Receipts For Coffee

    Date 13/11/2003

    The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated eCOPS, LLC, a subsidiary of the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) which uses an innovative electronic commodity operations processing system (eCOPSsm), as the first official "Provider" of Electronic Warehouse Receipts (EWR) for coffee under the United States Warehouse Act. The USDA action places the NYBOT eCOPS in the vanguard of the technological revolution that will automate the cumbersome, error-prone and costly manual back-off

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Acts Against Former Credit Suisse Financial Products Senior Managers

    Date 13/11/2003

    The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined a former chief executive officer (CEO) £150,000 for failing to detect or prevent attempts to mislead the Japanese tax authority in 1996-7. In addition, it has banned two individuals for their share of responsibility in attempts to mislead the Japanese tax or regulatory authorities in 1996-8.

  • Sydney Futures Exchange Electricity Futures Volumes Charging Ahead

    Date 13/11/2003

    Fourteen months after their initial listing, trading volumes of the d-cypha SFE Australian Electricity Futures contracts on the Sydney Futures Exchange (a wholly owned subsidiary of SFE Corporation) were at record levels in October, reinforcing the success of the d-cyphaTrade electricity futures contracts.

  • Statement By New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Regarding The Proposed Putnam Settlement

    Date 13/11/2003

    Today's agreement between the SEC and Putnam provides some preliminary measures to address the issues raised in the actions filed against Putnam.

  • Standard & Poor's To Take Over Smith Barney's Global Equity Indices - With Addition Of Benchmark Series, S&P Emerges As Leading Full-Service Index Provider

    Date 13/11/2003

    Standard & Poor's, the leading provider of independent investment research, indices and ratings, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Citigroup to transition over Smith Barney's global benchmark index business (formerly known as the SSB Global Equity Index System) to Standard & Poor's Index Services. The indices, now to be known as the S&P/Citigroup Global Equity Indices, add significant capabilities to Standard & Poor's position as the world's leading index provider, stren

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

    Date 13/11/2003

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index change effective after the close of business on Friday, November 14, 2003: The relative weight of ARC Energy Trust (TSX:AET.UN - GICS 10102020 Oil & Gas Exploration & Production) will increase by approximately 0.45% in the S&P/TSX Capped Income Trust Index and by 0.86% in the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Trust Index. The relative weight change reflects an adjustment to the float capitalization of the trust due to the issuan

  • SEC Charges Former CEO, CFO, And Controller Of Gateway, Inc. With Fraud - Gateway Agrees To Issuance Of A Cease-And-Desist Order

    Date 13/11/2003

    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today the filing of fraud charges against the former chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and controller of San Diego-based Gateway, Inc., for engaging in a fraudulent earnings manipulation scheme to meet Wall Street analysts' expectations, and for making false statements and concealing from the investing public important information about the success of Gateway's personal computer (PC) business, in the second and third quarters of 20

  • Putnam Agrees To Make Restitution And Implement Immediate, Significant Structural Reforms In Partial Resolution Of SEC Enforcement Action

    Date 13/11/2003

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Putnam Investment Management LLC (Putnam), a registered investment adviser located in Boston, Mass., agreed to the entry of an order in the Commission's administrative proceeding relating to alleged market-timing trades by certain of Putnam's employees. In the Order, Putnam has agreed to undertake significant and far-reaching corporate governance, compliance, and ethics reforms. Putnam has also agreed to a process for calculating and pa

  • Program Trading Averaged 41.3 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Nov. 3-7

    Date 13/11/2003

    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 Nov. 3-7.