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The National Stock Exchange Appoints William Karsh As Special Advisor

Date 12/06/2012

National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX), wholly-owned by the CBOE Stock Exchange, LLC (CBSX), announced today the appointment of William Karsh as Special Advisor.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices - Neo Material Technologies Inc. To Be Removed From The S&P/TSX Composite Index .

Date 12/06/2012

S&P Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices:

The shareholders of Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX:NEM) have accepted the cash and share exchange offer from Molycorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP). Neo Material Technologies will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials, the S&P/TSX Composite High Beta and the S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight Indices effective after the close of Wednesday, June 13, 2012.

Mr Price Group Added To Dow Jones Emerging Markets Consumer Services Titans 30 Index

Date 12/06/2012

Mr Price Group Limited of South Africa will be added to the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Consumer Services Titans 30 Index, Dow Jones Indexes announced today.

CME Group Inc. Announces Date Of Second-Quarter 2012 Earnings Release, Conference Call

Date 12/06/2012

CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the second quarter of 2012 before the financial markets open on Thursday, July 26, 2012.  The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 7:30 a.m. Central time.

BM&FBOVESPA Announces Result Of Carbon Credits Auction Held On Tuesday, June 12

Date 12/06/2012

BM&FBOVESPA held today (June 12) the third sell auction of certified emission reductions (CER) held by the Municipal Government of São Paulo. Mercuria Energy Trading, based in Geneva (Switzerland), was the winning bidder for the lot, at €3.30 per carbon credit. The price represents a 22.22% premium on the minimum price of €2.70 per carbon credit. In all, the auction’s financial volume was €1,749,000.00 (approximately BRL 4,477,000.00). A single lot was auctioned, of 530,000 CERs generated by the Bandeirantes Landfill Gas to Energy Project in accordance with the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

SIX Swiss Exchange Supports Abolition Of Control Premiums On Corporate Takeovers

Date 12/06/2012

SIX Swiss Exchange supports the Federal Council in its plan to abolish thecontrol premiums in cases of corporate takeovers. Control premiums violate the principle of equal treatment and transparency under stock exchange legislation and are for this reason contrary to the protection of minority shareholders in corporate takeovers. In addition, control premiums weaken the Swiss financial centre in terms of international competition.

1st Repetitive General Meeting Of Hellenic Exchanges

Date 12/06/2012

HELLENIC EXCHANGES S.A. HOLDING, CLEARING, SETTLEMENT AND REGISTRY announces that today, June 12^th 2012, the 1^st Repetitive General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held in the “HERMES” hall at the offices of the Company. Shareholders representing the 55.0% of the 65,368,563 total common registered shares participated.

SEC Charges 14 Sales Agents In $415 Million Long Island-Based Ponzi Scheme

Date 12/06/2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 14 sales agents who misled investors and illegally sold securities for a Long Island-based investment firm at the center of a $415 million Ponzi scheme.

Fitch Takes Rating Actions On Spanish Banks Following Sovereign Downgrade

Date 12/06/2012

Fitch Ratings has downgraded 18 Spanish banks' Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) and 15 banks' Viability Ratings (VR). At the same time, the agency has placed the Long-term and Short-term IDRs of three banks on Rating Watch Negative (RWN) and maintained five banks on RWN. The Support Rating Floors (SRF) assigned to four banks have also been revised. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this comment.

World Bank Urges Developing Countries To Strengthen Domestic Fundamentals, To Weather Global Economic Turmoil

Date 12/06/2012

A resurgence of tensions in high-income Europe has eroded the gains made during the first four months of this year, which saw a rebound in economic activity in both developing and advanced countries and an easing of risk aversion among investors. Since May 1^st, increased market jitters have spread. Developing and high-income country stock markets have lost some 7 percent, giving up two-thirds of the gains generated over the preceding four months. Most industrial commodity prices are down, with crude and copper prices down by 19 and 14 percent, respectively, while developing country currencies have lost value against the US dollar, as international capital fled to safe-haven assets, such as German and U.S. government bonds.