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CFTC Releases Annual Enforcement Results - CFTC Releases Statement On The Agency’s Division Of Enforcement; A Record 99 Enforcement Actions, 74 Percent More Than Last Year

Date 06/10/2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that its Division of Enforcement filed 99 enforcement actions in Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011), the highest yearly tally in the agency’s history and a 74 percent increase over the prior fiscal year. The CFTC charged individuals and companies in these cases for manipulating commodity prices, perpetrating Ponzi schemes and other fraud, supervision and accounting failures, trading abuses, registration deficiencies, and committing other violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and regulations. The Division of Enforcement also opened more than 450 investigations in FY 2011, another program high. These results are calculated based on the Federal Government’s fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2011.

TSX Block List Leaders - September 2011

Date 06/10/2011

Block trades are large trades with a volume of 10,000 shares or more and a value of $100,000 or more. The TSX Block List Leaders lists shows the top ten brokers chosen by their customers to execute these significant block trades on Toronto Stock Exchange. The leaders are measured by volume and value of blocks traded.

European Parliament - Semeta: Financial Transaction Tax For More Revenue And Changed Trading Practices - Could Raise €57 Billion Per Year

Date 06/10/2011

An EU financial transaction tax could raise €57 billion per year, Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Semeta told leading Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs on Thursday, a week after the Commission presented its proposals for such a tax. Mr Semeta shrugged off the reticence shown by some, telling MEPs that no tax proposal had ever received Member States' immediate full support and that company flight would not be the "major pattern" because tax regimes alone do not determine location.

Athens Exchange Monthly Statistical Bulletin September 2011

Date 06/10/2011

Click here to download the ATHEX monthly statistical bulletin for September 2011.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Testimony Before The Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs

Date 06/10/2011

Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Shelby, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on behalf of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “Council”).  

TSX Top 20 Largest - Consolidated Short Position Report – Highlights - September 30, 2011

Date 06/10/2011

Please find below the Top 20 Largest Consolidated Short Position Report Highlights. The report is produced twice monthly, effective the 15th and the end of each month. The report below covers the 2-week period ending September 30, 2011.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner To Host APEC Finance Ministers Meeting, November 9-10, 2011

Date 06/10/2011

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii to host the 2011 Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting of Finance Ministers on November 9-10, 2011. The Secretary will chair a meeting of regional finance ministers focused on policies to strengthen the global recovery and bring about strong, sustained and more balanced growth in order to boost job creation and incomes in the United States and throughout the APEC region. The APEC economies, comprising many of the most dynamic and fastest-growing economies in the world, account for 58 percent of U.S. goods exports. 

Program Trading Averaged 33.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Sept. 26-30

Date 06/10/2011

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms’ executed volume from NYSE’s orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Sept. 26-30.

IRESS Selects TMX Atrium As Its Exclusive Canadian Network Connectivity Provider For ION

Date 06/10/2011

IRESS, Canada's leading trading access vendor and supplier of sophisticated trading solutions, and TMX Datalinx, TMX Group's information services division, today announced that IRESS has chosen TMX Atrium™ as its Canadian network connectivity provider as part of the IRESS Optical Network (ION).

Instinet Market Structure Research: Trade And HFT Observations For August 2011

Date 06/10/2011

Highlights

• August showed marked increases in quote volume and volatility over that observed in July especially during US market hours.
• August was analyzed over two distinct periods relative to July. The first half of the month exhibited both elevated volatility and volume, but the second half showed increases in volatility only.
• Intraday volatility mostly increased proportionally to the previous month.
• Though HFT activity increased overall in August, a sizable relative decrease was observed in early hours trading. High volatility and depressed HFT activity at the beginning of the trading day appear to be correlated.