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

Date 31/05/2011

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes:

• It is expected that the shareholders of Massey Energy Company (NYSE:MEE) will accept the cash and share offer from Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:ANR). Shareholders of both companies meet on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, to approve the transaction. Assuming shareholder approvals are received, Massey Energy shareholders will receive $US10.00 cash and 1.025 shares of Alpha Natural Resources for each share held. Massey Energy will be removed from the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index after the close of Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Following the acquisition of Massey Energy, the relative weight of Alpha Natural Resources will increase in the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index to reflect the issuance of shares as part of the transaction, also after the close on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.

ESMA: Publication Of The Regulation On Supervision Of Credit Rating Agencies

Date 31/05/2011

The CRA regulation establishing ESMA's responsibility for the supervision and registartion of credit rating agencies in the European Union is published today in the official journal.

NYSE Technologies Named "Best Data Provider" By Inside Market Data

Date 31/05/2011

NYSE Technologies, the global commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), announced today that it has been named the "Best Data Provider" among global securities exchanges by Inside Market Data.

FINRA Charges David Lerner & Associates With Soliciting Investors To Purchase REITs Without Fully Investigating Suitability; Lerner Marketed REITs On Its Website With Misleading Returns

Date 31/05/2011

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has filed a complaint against David Lerner & Associates, Inc. (DLA), of Syosset, NY, charging the firm with soliciting investors to purchase shares in Apple REIT Ten, a non-traded $2 billion Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), without conducting a reasonable investigation to determine whether it was suitable for investors, and with providing misleading information on its website regarding Apple REIT Ten distributions. DLA has sold and continues to sell Apple REIT Ten targeting unsophisticated and elderly customers with unsuitable sales of the illiquid security.

Dow Jones Indexes: Agriculture Vs. Equities

Date 31/05/2011

The trailing 3-year performance of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Subindex (commodity futures) and Dow Jones U.S. Food Producers Total Stock Market Index (equities) are both approximately +3.5% per annum. However, the corresponding year-to-date and 1-year performance show the true volatility between these asset classes: year-to-date, equities are up 11.01% while commodity futures are up only 2.96%, yet commodity futures are up 59.82% and equities are up 21.41% based upon 1-year performance.

Nordic Growth Market NGM AB: Premiere For Nordea Bank As An Issuer On NDX Finland

Date 31/05/2011

On June 1, Nordea Bank will list for the first time on NDX Finland. The securities are two turbo warrants with DAX index as underlying.

Deutsche Börse And Eurex To Cooperate With Shanghai Advanced Institute Of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Memorandum Of Understanding Signed On 27 May

Date 31/05/2011

Deutsche Börse AG, Eurex and the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) last Friday, 27 May, in Shanghai.

RTS Indices Weekly Review - May 23 – 27, 2011

Date 31/05/2011

For the week of May 23 – May 27, 2011 the Russian stock market experienced an upturn of prices.

Deutsche Börse: Cash Market To Open At 8 A.M. From June - L/E-DAX Is Already Calculated From 8 A.M.

Date 31/05/2011

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange will be opening an hour earlier from 1 June. Investors will then be able to buy and sell shares, funds and ETFs through Xetra specialists from as early as 8 a.m. Trading via specialists will end at 8 p.m. as usual.

BATS Joins Correlix RaceTeam Latency Measurement Service

Date 31/05/2011

Correlix Inc., the provider of the industry leading RaceTeam™ service for monitoring, measuring and reporting order and market data flows in real-time, today announced that BATS Global Markets (BATS), a global operator of cash equities and derivatives securities markets, has joined the Correlix RaceTeam latency measurement service.