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Tokyo Financial Exchange: Rollover Of Leading Contract Month For Three-month Euroyen Futures (Effective From 7 August 2009)

Date 13/08/2009

Tokyo Financial Exchange has decided to shift the leading contract month for Euroyen futures from the current December 2009 contracts to the June 2010 contracts, effective from 7 August 2009.
Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA 2nd Quarter 2009

Date 13/08/2009

Oslo Børs VPS Holding reports earnings of NOK 72.4 million for the second quarter of 2009 (NOK 130 million). Earnings for the first six months of 2009 totalled NOK 114.6 (NOK 245.8 million). Both revenue and earnings were lower than in the same quarter of 2008 due to the lower level of market activity and a decline in revenue from trading and settlement fees.
RTS Offers “Need To Know News” Ultra-Low Latency Economic Data Feed To Algorithmic Traders

Date 13/08/2009

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading trading solutions provider, announced that it is now offering an ultra-low latency economic data feed for algorithmic trading clients from Washington-based Need to Know News (NTKN). RTS has integrated NTKN’s “Lightning Bolt-i” feed into its RTD Tango algorithmic trading solution, enabling clients to enrich their trading strategies by seamlessly incorporating digitized global economic data into their algorithms.
FORTS: Number Of Trades In The USD/RUR Futures Exceeds 17 Thousand

Date 13/08/2009

On August 12, 2009 a record number of trades in the USD/RUR futures contract were executed on FORTS.
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For HKEx Futures And Sun Hung Kai Properties Futures

Date 13/08/2009

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has announced that with effect from the commencement of trading on Monday, 17 August 2009, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contracts will be as outlined in the table below. The adjustments are based on the clearing company's normal procedures and standard margining methodolog

RTS Index Demonstrates Growth On The Back Of Upbeat External News

Date 13/08/2009

The leading RTS Index gained 3.09% during July, reaching 1,017.47 points. Due to favorable corporate reports, a positive US employment report and a rise in commodity markets the bullish mood prevailed.
“The Right Road to Reform” - CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Comments On The Administration’s Legislative Language To Regulate OTC Transactions

Date 12/08/2009

President Obama recently called for us to “build something better” in reforming our nation’s financial market regulatory system, and today’s delivery to Capitol Hill of watershed legislation to regulate currently opaque over-the-counter derivative markets clearly puts us on the right road to reform.
Amaranth Entities Ordered To Pay A $7.5 Million Civil Fine In CFTC Action Alleging Attempted Manipulation Of Natural Gas Futures Prices - Amaranth Advisors, L.L.C. And Amaranth Advisors (Calgary) ULC Settle CFTC Charges Of Attempted Manipulation Of Natura

Date 12/08/2009

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it has entered into a consent order settling charges brought against Amaranth Advisors, L.L.C., based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and its Amaranth Advisors (Calgary) ULC subsidiary, based in Calgary, Alberta (the Amaranth entities) for attempting to manipulate the price of natural gas futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) on February 24 and April 26, 2006.
SEC Charges Terex Corporation With Accounting Fraud

Date 12/08/2009

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Terex Corporation, a Westport, Conn.-based heavy equipment manufacturer, with accounting fraud for making material misstatements in its own financial reports to investors, as well as aiding and abetting a fraudulent accounting scheme at United Rentals, Inc. (URI), another Connecticut-based public company.
HKEx 2009 Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Date 12/08/2009

Click here to download HKEx's 2009 condensed consolidated financial statements.