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2011 Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour Estimate For Kansas At 37.4 Bushels per Acre - Wheat Quality Council's 2011 HRW Wheat Crop Tour Closes At KCBT

Date 05/05/2011

The final estimate for the 2011 Hard Red Winter wheat tour sponsored by the Wheat Quality Council was announced today at the Kansas City Board of Trade. The final participant estimate for the three-day tour average was a yield of 37.4 bushels per acre, 3.3 bushels lower than the 2010 estimate of 40.7 bushels per acre.
BM&FBOVESPA Announces April 2011 Market Performance

Date 05/05/2011

In April, the BM&FBOVESPA agribusiness derivatives market (including futures and options) totaled 167,619 contracts traded, compared to 168,499 in March. Agribusiness markets totaled 118,299 open interest contracts, in contrast to 101,434 in the previous month. Options on commodity futures totaled 21,273 contracts in April, against 12,708 the previous month. The highlight was for options on live cattle futures at 14,536 contracts from 8,033 the previous month.
BM&FBOVESPA Announces Opening Of The Bidding Process To Select The Manager For Three New ETFs - The Products Will Track The Dividend, Basic Materials And Public Utilities Indices

Date 05/05/2011

BM&FBOVESPA hereby announces the opening of the bidding process to select a securities portfolio manager entitled to an exclusive one-year license for the use of the Dividend Index (IDIV), Basic Materials Index (IMAT) and Public Utilities Index (UTIL). This is for the creation, respectively, of the Dividend Index Exchange-Traded Fund (IDIV ETF), the Basic Materials Index Exchange-Traded Fund (IMAT ETF), and the Public Utilities Index Exchange Traded Fund (UTIL ETF). The new products will have their units traded on the BOVESPA segment exchange market.
CBOE Holdings, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2011 Results - Diluted EPS Of $0.36, Up 44 Percent

Date 05/05/2011

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today reported first quarter 2011 net income allocated to common stockholders of $32.1 million, an increase of 42 percent compared with net income of $22.7 million in the first quarter of 2010.
FINRA Fines Wells Fargo Advisors $1 Million For Delays In Delivering Prospectuses To More Than 900,000 Customers - Firm Also Delayed Reporting Required Information Regarding Its Brokers

Date 05/05/2011

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC of St. Louis, $1 million for its failure to deliver prospectuses in a timely manner to customers who purchased mutual funds in 2009, and for delays in reporting material information about its current and former representatives, including arbitrations and complaints involving its representatives.

Program Trading Averaged 29.8 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Apr. 25-29

Date 05/05/2011

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.
TMX Group Equity Financing Statistics – April 2011

Date 05/05/2011

TMX Group today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for April 2011.
NASDAQ-100 Data Explorers Optimized Index Launched To Enhance Liquidity -Index Constituents Screened Based On Data Explorers Stock Loan Information; Replicates Return And Volatility Characteristics Of NASDAQ-100 Index

Date 05/05/2011

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and Data Explorers today announced the introduction of the NASDAQ-100 Data Explorers Optimized Index (NASDAQ:NDXOPT). The new index is an optimized version of the NASDAQ-100 Index^®(NASDAQ:NDX), a globally recognized brand comprised of 100 of the world's largest, most dynamic non-financial companies. The NASDAQ-100 Data Explorers Optimized Index offers a tradable benchmark that will enhance liquidity and protect both the long and short investor.The new index is unique because it screens out stocks that are either lacking in liquidity or relatively expensive to borrow in the stock lending market based on analytics from Data Explorers, the leading global provider of stock lending and short interest information.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At The 47th Annual Conference On Bank Structure And Competition, Chicago, Illinois, May 5, 2011 - Implementing A Macroprudential Approach To Supervision And Regulation

Date 05/05/2011

The recent financial crisis revealed critical gaps and weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and the financial regulatory framework. The Congress and the Administration last year provided a roadmap for addressing many of these problems, in the form of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act)--the topic of this year's conference.
The Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Calls For The Greatest Vigilance Regarding Non-Financial Products Offered To The Public

Date 05/05/2011

After the stock market crises of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and subprime mortgages in 2007, retail investors have become more wary of financial investments and are increasingly tempted to place their savings in other types of investments, notably due to the current low level of interest rates.