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Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Finansinspektionen - HQ Bank's Licence Revoked

Date 28/08/2010

Finansinspektionen has revoked HQ Bank AB's licence. The bank has grossly breached the most central provisions of Swedish legislation and FI will apply for the company to be entered into liquidation. FI believes that this decision will not have an impact on financial stability.
NASDAQ OMX Suspends HQ Bank AB

Date 28/08/2010

Following the Swedish FSA's decision to revoke HQ Bank's trading and banking license, NASDAQ OMX has decided to suspend HQ Bank's equity trading membership with NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB, NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy as well their derivatives trading and clearing membership with NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB. The FSA's decision to revoke HQ Bank's licenses means that HQ Bank no longer fulfils the member criteria.
Statement On High-Speed And Algorithmic Trading By CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton

Date 27/08/2010

This week, news articles reported what may be yet another example of high-speed trading run amok. It was reported that an “error” caused the price of oil to spike by a dollar on NYMEX in a matter of seconds back in February. Whether it was truly an error or not, the fact is that high-speed computerized trading has caused tectonic plate shifts in the way market participants engage in financial trading and investing.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 27/08/2010

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders of Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation (TSX:GNA) have accepted the $US11.00 cash per share offer from Gerdau S.A. Gerdau Ameristeel will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials and the S&P/TSX Clean Technology Indices effective after the close of trading on Tue
New Record For MarketDataPeaks.com

Date 27/08/2010

Exegy, Inc., the market data appliance company announced today that the Exegy Ticker Plant driving the MarketDataPeaks web site hit 3,449,856 messages per second. This is a new record and surpasses the previous high water mark of 3,409,640 mps reached on 25 August when the market dramatically turned from below 10,000 on the Dow Jones Industrials Average.

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

Date 27/08/2010

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes:
Speech By Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At The Federal Reserve Bank Of Kansas City Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 27, 2010 - The Economic Outlook And Monetary Policy

Date 27/08/2010

The annual meeting at Jackson Hole always provides a valuable opportunity to reflect on the economic and financial developments of the preceding year, and recently we have had a great deal on which to reflect. A year ago, in my remarks to this conference, I reviewed the response of the global policy community to the financial crisis.1 On the whole, when the eruption of the Panic of 2008 threatened the very foundations
BATS Europe To Launch Depository Receipt Trading

Date 27/08/2010

BATS Europe announced its intention to launch trading of Depository Receipts (DRs) on the BATS Europe Integrated Book and Dark Book, pending regulatory approval and a full review of Corporate Action processing at EMCF.
Malawi Stock Exchange Weekly Report

Date 27/08/2010

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Athens Exchange S.A.: Announcement Regarding Short Selling

Date 27/08/2010

The Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC) decided to lift the prohibition of covered short selling on listed shares traded in ATHEX, whereas the prohibition of naked short selling will continue to be in effect. In particular, the short selling on listed shares traded in ATHEX will be allowed from 01/09/2010, under the following prerequisites: