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ASX Managing Director And CEO - Elmer Funke Kupper Appointed As Next Managing Director And CEO

Date 26/08/2011

ASX Limited (ASX) announces that Mr Elmer Funke Kupper is to be appointed as its next Managing Director and CEO.
U.S. Taxpayers Recover Nearly $900 Million From TARP Warrant Sales During Last Six Months - Cumulative Proceeds From Warrant Dispositions Now Reach More Than $9 Billion Since TARP’s Inception

Date 25/08/2011

The US Department of the Treasury today released the latest TARP Warrant Disposition Report including data during the six months ending June 30, 2011. During that period, Treasury received more than $886 million in gross proceeds from the disposition of 20 warrant positions through repurchases and auctions of institutions in the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), the Targeted Investment Program (TIP) and the Asset Guarantee Program (AGP). Since the TARP’s inception, Treasury has received more than $9 billion in gross proceeds from the disposition of warrants associated with investments made through CPP, TIP and AGP.
Direct Edge Update: Hurricane Irene

Date 25/08/2011

Direct Edge expects to operate as normal on Monday August 29^th despite the storm approaching the NY/NJ area.
BM&FBOVESPA And CME Group: Multi-Asset Electronic Trading Platform - Launch Of The “Puma Trading System” New Trading Platform On August 29, 201

Date 25/08/2011

BM&FBOVESPA and CME Group are jointly developing a multi-asset electronic trading platform. This shall substitute the Global Trading System (GTS), Mega Bolsa, BOVESPA FIX and SISBEX, integrating them into a single system with greater processing capacity, extremely low latency, and new functions.
Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index

Date 25/08/2011

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that Downer EDI Ltd. (Australia, Construction & Materials, DOW.AU) will be removed from the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index.

Opening Remarks, Conference On Commodity Markets, CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler

Date 25/08/2011

Good morning and welcome to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). It’s great to see economists from so many fine universities across the globe gathered here along with an impressive group of government experts. Thank you for graciously sharing your time to discuss the issues affecting commodity markets. Your insights should be helpful to our surveillance and enforcement efforts at this agency. I want to thank Andrei Kirilenko and the Office of the Chief Economist for putting this conference together and for their contributions to this agency. Before you get started, I’m going to give you an update about where we stand today with the CFTC’s response to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Program Trading Averaged 32.0 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Aug. 15-19

Date 25/08/2011

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. The report includes trading on the NYSE for Aug. 15-19.
ESMA Coordinates Action On Short Selling In Countries Where Bans Are Currently In Force

Date 25/08/2011

Acting in close cooperation and under the coordination of ESMA, the European regulators that limited short selling tonight published press statements setting out details of their coordinated action.
Dubai Financial Market Market Holiday - Eid Al Fitr

Date 25/08/2011

In occasion of Eid Al Fitr, DFM will be closed starting from 30 August 2011 and will resume on 04 September 2011.
DME Announces Trading And Processing Schedule For US Labor Day 2011

Date 25/08/2011

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (“DME”) wishes to announce the trading and processing schedule for the US Labor Day Holiday on September 5, 2011 as outlined below (all references to the time are expressed on a 24-hour clock and refer to the local time in Chicago "CT" and Singapore "SGT").