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  • ELX Announces Solid April Results With Strong Performances In 5 and 30-Year U.S. Treasury Futures And Record Average Open Interest In Eurodollar Futures

    Date 02/05/2011

    ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX), a leading electronic futures exchange, announced today that it continued to add new participants and see solid growth and strong performances in its futures products in the month of April. Highlights include the 30-year bond having its best performing market share month ever, the 5-year note having its best performing market share month of the year in April, and Eurodollar futures setting a record in combined average open interest (OI).

  • BM&FBOVESPA: Competitive Bidding Process To Select Market Makers For Options On The Stock Of OGX Petróleo E Gás And Itaú Unibanco Holding

    Date 02/05/2011

    BM&FBOVESPA held a public consultation into the rules for the selection, accreditation and performance of market makers for equity options, and after examining the suggestions and observations made by market participants it submitted the rules for analysis by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), which approved them with the understanding that non-resident institutions may also participate, observing the relevant regulations.

  • SEC: Fee Rate Advisory #1 For Fiscal Year 2012

    Date 02/05/2011

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that, if a regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2012 is enacted on or before Oct. 1, 2011, the fees rates applicable to most securities transactions will decrease from $19.20 per million dollars to $15.10 per million dollars in fiscal year 2012. The new fee rates will go into effect on the later of Oct. 1, 2011 or 30 days after the appropriation is enacted. The assessment on security futures transactions will remain unchanged at $0.0042 for each round turn transaction.

  • NYSE Euronext Comments On Nasdaq/ICE Announcement That It Intends to Commence Exchange Offer On Same Terms That Have Been Unanimously Rejected

    Date 02/05/2011

    NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) notes that Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE) have announced their intention to begin an unsolicited exchange offer some time in May to acquire all outstanding shares of NYSE Euronext.  NYSE Euronext further notes that Nasdaq and ICE have announced that the terms of the offer will be the same as previously proposed.  On April 21, 2011, NYSE Euronext’s Board of Directors unanimously rejected this proposal from Nasdaq OMX/ICE.  NYSE Euronext’s financial advisers are Perella Weinberg Partners, BNP Paribas, Goldman, Sachs and Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.   Its legal advisers are Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Stibbe N.V. and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.

  • OCC Reports Overall Cleared Volume Declined In April As Futures And Securities Lending Volume Continued To Rise

    Date 02/05/2011

    OCC announced that overall cleared volume reached 338,562,433 contracts in April, representing a 7 percent decrease from the April 2010 volume of 363,275,500 contracts. This volume decline was primarily in options contracts as futures and securities lending volumes continued to rise in April. OCC's year-to-date total volume is up 16 percent with 1,498,862,398 contracts.