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CBOE To Launch Options On Volatility Indexes Of Individual Stock And Crude Oil ETFs

Date 16/03/2011

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that it has filed for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to list options based on recently-created volatility indexes that track individual stocks — Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Goldman Sachs (GS), Google (GOOG), and IBM (IBM) — using CBOE's widely-followed CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) methodology.
BM&FBOVESPA Breaks Co-location Trading Volume And Financial Volume Records In The Bovespa Segment

Date 16/03/2011

BM&FBOVESPA obtained records of 88,011 trades and a financial volume of BRL 589,733,000.00 in Direct Market Access (DMA) via co-location in the Bovespa segment (equities) on Wednesday (March 16).
More Than 99 Percent Of TARP Disbursements To Banks Now Recovered As Six Financial Institutions Deliver Nearly Half Billion Dollars In Proceeds To Taxpayers - TARP Bank Programs Continue To Near Profitability

Date 16/03/2011

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that today six financial institutions have repurchased Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Capital Purchase Program (CPP) investments, delivering a total of $475 million in proceeds for taxpayers.
BM&FBOVESPA: ETF BOVA11 Trading Volume Sets New Daily Record: R$110 Million

Date 16/03/2011

ETF BOVA11 financial volume reached a new record of R$109.82 million in today’s trading session at BM&FBOVESPA. 1,674,780 BOVA11 shares were traded at an average price of R$65.57 in a total of 1,885 transactions. The previous record of R$99.36 million was set on February 18, 2011. PIBB11, MILA11, SMALL11, MOBI11 and CSMO11 transactions reached the volume of R$6.45 million, R$13.38 million, R$12.31 million, R$475,16, R$292,23 and R$11,24, respectively.
ETF Securities Adds Second Counterparty To Commodities Platform

Date 16/03/2011

ETF Securities Limited, pioneers in specialist exchange traded products (ETPs), has enhanced its exchange traded commodity (ETC) platform, ETFS Commodity Securities Limited (CSL), with the addition of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, via Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc., (MLCI), as a second counterparty.

"Speculators And Commodity Prices" - Opening Remarks Of CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton To The Futures Industry Association's Panel Discussion: Financial Investors' Impact On Commodity Prices, Boca Raton, FL

Date 16/03/2011

When I came to the Commission in 2007, I began to hear rumblings about "new" speculators in commodity markets, and their effects on prices. Now I was quite familiar, as we all were, with the traditional hedger and speculator roles, but as security portfolios began to show weaker returns, folks started to try and figure out how to improve their investments, and many of them looked to the commodities world. This "new" class of investor represented a significant asset class shift from what most of us were familiar. And, as these commodity investments began to pay off, this new class increased in size—in fact, they became massive. In just a few years, by 2008, over $200 billion in "passive" investment (that is, folks who are going long and staying long) came into the commodities markets. The question is: What does this mean? Is it a good thing, a bad thing, or neutral?
Written Testimony Of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Before The House Of Representatives Committee On Appropriations Subcommittee On Financial Services And General Government

Date 16/03/2011

Chairwoman Emerson, Ranking Member Serrano, members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify about the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Budget for the Department of the Treasury.
SEC Charges Former Supervisor At Colonial Bank For Role In Securities Fraud Scheme

Date 16/03/2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former operations supervisor of Colonial Bank’s mortgage warehouse lending division (MWLD) with participating in a $1.5 billion securities fraud scheme.
NYPC Announces Initial Clearing Members For March 21st Launch

Date 16/03/2011

New York Portfolio Clearing, LLC (NYPC) announced today that its board has approved the first of its clearing members.
CBOE And S&P Announce Formation Of 'VIX Network,' A Global Group Of Exchanges Using The VIX Methodology

Date 16/03/2011

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and Standard & Poor's (S&P) announced the formation of VIX Network, a global network of exchanges with agreements regarding use of CBOE's VIX® methodology.