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  • Standard & Poor's: Long-Term Rating On Spain Lowered To 'AA-' On Economic Growth And Banking Sector Risks; Outlook Negative

    Date 14/10/2011

    • Despite signs of resilience in economic performance during 2011, we see heightened risks to Spain's growth prospects due to high unemployment, tighter financial conditions, the still high level of private sector debt, and the likely economic slowdown in Spain's main trading partners.
    • The financial profile of the Spanish banking system will, in our opinion, weaken further, with the stock of problematic assets rising further, as highlighted by the recent revision in our Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment on Spain to Group 4 from Group 3. 
    • As a consequence, we are lowering our long-term sovereign credit ratings on Spain to 'AA-' from 'AA'.
    • The outlook on the long-term rating is negative.

  • ASIC Grants Class Waiver Relief To ASX 24 Market Participants

    Date 14/10/2011

    ASIC has today issued class waiver relief to allow market participants of the ASX 24 Market to insert a limitation of liability (LOL) clause in their client agreements with trustees, subject to certain conditions. 

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

    Date 13/10/2011

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, October 14, 2011:

    • The Toronto Stock Exchange has announced today in the Daily Bulletin that the shares of Exploration Orbite V.S.P.A. Inc. (TSXVN:ORT.A) will graduate to trade on TSX at the open of trading on Monday, October 17, 2011. The new name of the company will be Orbite Aluminae Inc. The ticker symbol will be "ORT" and the CUSIP number will be 68558C 10 6. According to index methodology, Orbite Aluminae will remain a constituent of the S&P/TSX Venture 30 Index until the next index review after the end of January, 2012. The company will be removed from the S&P/TSX Venture Composite and Venture Select Indices after the close of trading on Friday, October 14, 2011.

  • SEC Sanctions Direct Edge Electronic Exchanges And Orders Remedial Measures To Strengthen Systems And Controls

    Date 13/10/2011

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned two electronic stock exchanges and a broker-dealer owned by Direct Edge Holdings LLC for violations of U.S. securities laws arising out of weak internal controls that resulted in millions of dollars in trading losses and a systems outage.

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX SmallCap Index

    Date 13/10/2011

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index after the close of trading on Thursday, October 20, 2011:

    The shareholders of Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (TSX:ZL) have accepted the $CDN3.98 cash per share offer from Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ:MSCC). Zarlink will be removed from the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Equity SmallCap Indices after the close of Thursday, October 20, 2011.

  • Direct Edge Statement Regarding SEC Proceeding

    Date 13/10/2011

    Direct Edge Holdings (Direct Edge) today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) censure of the EDGA Exchange, Inc. and EDGX Exchange, Inc. in conjunction with the settlement of an administrative proceeding to resolve issues in connection with two separate systems incidents.

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

    Date 13/10/2011

    Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday, October 13, 2011:

    • Macarthur Minerals Limited (TSXVN:MMS) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on TSX under the same ticker symbol.

  • U.S. Department Of The Treasury: Remarks By Assistant Secretary Mary J. Miller At The CFA Institute

    Date 13/10/2011

    Thank you very much for the invitation to join you this afternoon.  It is great to be with a group of fellow CFAs at a fixed-income management conference. The CFA Charter and fixed-income markets have both been important parts of my career, so I feel that I’m back on familiar ground here.

  • September 2011 FIF Market Share And Market Dynamics Reports – Executive Summary

    Date 13/10/2011

    U.S. Equities Market Share

    • Share volumes traded across Tape A, B, and Creduced 27% monthly but increased 24% annually to 178 billion shares.
    • In September 2011, off-exchange trading accounted for 34% of the shares traded in NMS Equity Securities.
    • Share volumes in NYSE-listed securities reduced 27% monthly but increased 22% annually to 38 billion shares.
    • NASDAQ-listed securities traded over exchange reduced 24% monthly but increased 9% annually to 44 billion shares.

  • SEC And FSA Hold Strategic Dialogue Meeting

    Date 13/10/2011

    Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro and senior SEC staff met today with the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants and its managing director of the conduct business unit Martin Wheatley as part of the regular, ongoing SEC-FSA Strategic Dialogue to discuss regulatory approaches to current issues.