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

Date 01/04/2011

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Monday, April 4, 2011:

• Hathor Exploration Limited (TSXVN:HAT) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on TSX under the same ticker symbol. Hathor Exploration will remain a constituent of the S&P/TSX Venture 30 Index until the next index rebalancing at the end of July, 2011.

BOX Price Improvement Activity At Record High In First Quarter, BOX Re-states Price Improvement numbers For June 2010-February 2011 Period

Date 01/04/2011

In the month of March, price improved contracts on BOX averaged 278,042 per day, and reached its highest ever recorded level for a three month period. Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via PIP averaged $0.98 per contract, while total savings to investors this month were $6.3M.

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

Date 01/04/2011

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

• The shareholders of Fronteer Gold Inc. (TSX:FRG) have accepted the $C14.00 cash per share takeover offer from Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM). Fronteer Gold will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity, Capped Equity, Equity Completion and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Global Mining, the S&P/TSX Global Gold and the S&P/TSX Capped Materials indices after close on Friday, April 8, 2011.

Montreal Exchange Sets Trading Volume Records

Date 01/04/2011

TMX Group Inc. today announced that Montreal Exchange (MX) experienced a record in monthly trading volume in March 2011.

KCBT Sets New Trading Volume Records For Month Of March - This Marks 10th Consecutive Month A New Calendar Month Record Has Been Set For HRW Wheat Futures

Date 01/04/2011

Robust trading volume during the month of March at the Kansas City Board of Trade yielded new monthly volume records. New calendar month volume records were set for both the HRW wheat futures contract and the exchange as a whole. This marks the 10th consecutive month a new calendar month record has been set for HRW wheat futures. New exchange calendar month volume records have been set nine out of the last 10 months.

CBOE Holdings Reports March 2011 Trading Volumes: CBOE Holdings Averages 4.8 Million Options Contracts Per Day In March Up 7% Over March 2010 - Down 3% From February 2011 - VIX Options And Futures Post All-Time Monthly, Daily Volume Records

Date 01/04/2011

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced that March trading volume for options on theChicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), the company's alternative all-electronic market, combined, totaled 111.5 million contracts, an average daily volume (ADV) of 4.8 million contracts.  Futures trading on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) in March set a new all-time monthly volume record for the third straight month, with more than one million contracts changing hands for the first time. 

Trading Volume Tops One Million Contracts For The First Time At CBOE Futures Exchange, March Is Third Consecutive Record Month - Average Daily Volume Above 40,000 Contracts For The Second Time - 18th Consecutive Month Of Year-Over-Year Volume Increases - CFE Launches Security Futures On CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index

Date 01/04/2011

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) today announced that March 2011 was the most active trading month in CFE history as volume surpassed the one-million-contracts milestone for the first time ever.  The 1,066,367 contracts that changed hands during March was a new all-time high and the third consecutive record month at CFE, following the previous highs of 789,734 contracts in February and 778,157 contracts in January.  When including November 2010's volume of 751,481 contracts, the four busiest months in CFE history have occurred during the last five months.  

Canadian Securities Regulators Release Oversight Review Of IIROC

Date 01/04/2011

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today released the report on the first oversight review of the performance of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), the self-regulatory body that regulates investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada. 

Canadian Securities Regulators Propose Enhanced Oversight Of Securitized Products

Date 01/04/2011

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today proposed a framework for the regulation of securitized products in Canada that would improve investor protection through enhanced transparency and disclosure requirements for securitized products and modify the current exemptions investors use to access these products in the exempt market.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 13

Date 01/04/2011

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 13 - 2011.