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  • BM&FBOVESPA Announces September 2010 Market Performance

    Date 07/10/2010

    Highlights: Individual investors reach a record 630,895. Securities lending reaches a record BRL 44.21bn. Trading in ETFs grows 35.26% since round lot reduced to 10 from 100.

  • mergermarket Publishes Q3 2010 M&A Round-Up

    Date 07/10/2010

    HIGHLIGHTS Global M&A up in Q3 2010 Global M&A totalled US$ 1,422.9bn for the first three quarters of 2010, up 25% from the same period in 2009. Deal count was also up by 18% at 8,102 announced deals.

  • SEC Charges Penny Stock Promoters In Series Of Kickback Schemes

    Date 07/10/2010

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged more than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies with securities fraud for their roles in various illicit kickback schemes to manipulate the volume and price of microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales. One of the schemes was perpetrated by an actor who starred as a police officer on the long-running television show CHiPs.

  • “Crash Cart” - Statement Of Commissioner Bart Chilton Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission - On The Joint CFTC/SEC Staff Report On The May 6 Flash Crash

    Date 07/10/2010

    This report details what went wrong on May 6 and, as many have guessed, there was no one culprit. The markets were skittish all day in large part due to the worsening economic news coming out of Europe. Volume and volatility were very high. By mid-afternoon, liquidity was drying up and sellers were having difficulty finding buyers. Then, when one institutional firm utilized an algorithmic trading program to sell 75,000 contracts valued at over $4 billion, the markets went into shock.

  • SEC Charges Internationally Syndicated Radio Show Host With Securities Fraud Scheme

    Date 07/10/2010

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a talk radio show host and two other executives at a Monterey, Calif.-based firm with misappropriating $2.5 million of approximately $7 million they raised through the fraudulent sale of interests in two real estate investment funds.