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SGX Announces Its First IPO Under Catalist Rules

Date 25/06/2008

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) today announced that Catalist, its sponsor-supervised board for local and international fast-growing companies, has received its first IPO under the new rules.
HKEx: Trading In Securities And Derivatives Markets Will Resume At 2:30pm After Lowering Typhoon Signal No. 8 Before Noon

Date 25/06/2008

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that trading in the securities and derivatives markets will resume from 2:30pm after the lowering of Typhoon Signal No. 8. HIBOR and Three-year EFN futures' afternoon trading session will open at 1:30 pm.
IDEAcarbon Launches World's First Carbon Credit Ratings Service - Ratings Bring Efficiency And Transparency To The Rapidly Growing Carbon Market

Date 25/06/2008

The Carbon Ratings Agency will launch the world's first independent carbon credit ratings service at the London Stock Exchange, 9.30am Wednesday June 25th. The Carbon Ratings Agency is the dedicated ratings subsidiary of IDEAcarbon, which has spent two years investing in the development of the carbon ratings process.
Speech By SEC Chairman Christopher Cox: Making Disclosure More Useful For Public Company Directors

Date 24/06/2008

Keynote Address to the Stanford Law School Directors' College Stanford University Palo Alto, California June 23, 2008 Thank you, Sy [Lorne, co-director of Stanford Law School's Directors' College], and thank you, Joe [Grundfest, William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of Directors' College], for inviting me once again to join in the Directors' College. This is a wonderful opportunity for so many of the directors of Amer
BM&F BOVESPA SA: Law Excluding Exchanges From The CSLL Rate Increase Is Ratified

Date 24/06/2008

BM&F BOVESPA SA – Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias e Futuros hereby informs that on June 23, 2008, the President of the Republic, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ratified Law No. 11727, confirming that the entities responsible for the organized over-the-counter markets; stock, commodities and futures exchanges; and entities that provide clearing and settlement services will not be subject to the increase of the social contribution tax (CSLL) rate from 9% to 15%.

GICS Change For Bayer AG In The S&P Global 100 Index

Date 24/06/2008

Standard & Poor’s will revise the GICS sector classification for the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus, S&P Euro and S&P Global 100 index constituent listed below: Company Name Country SEDOL
NASDAQ OMX Announces Mid-month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ OMX Stocks As Of Settlement Date June 13, 2008

Date 24/06/2008

At the end of the settlement date of June 13, 2008, short interest in 2,635 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 10,268,077,980 shares, compared with 9,687,044,281 shares in 2,643 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 30, 2008. The mid-June short interest represents 5.05 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.94 days for the prior reporting period.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading Ten New Options On Wednesday, June 25

Date 24/06/2008

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin to trade ten new options on June 25, 2008. The first six options were allocated to LaBranche Structured Products LLC: Castle A M & Co. (option/stock symbol: CAS) will trade on the March expiration cycle with initial expiration months of July, September, August and December. Position and exercise limits have been set at 5,000,000 shares. CVR
GICS Change For Bayer AG In The S&P European Indices

Date 24/06/2008

Standard & Poor’s will revise the GICS sector classification for the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro index constituent listed below: Company Name Country SEDOL Current GICS
Written Testimony Of CFTC Acting Chairman Walter Lukken, House Committee On Agriculture

Date 24/06/2008

Click here to download the written testimony of Acting Chairman Walter Lukken, House Committee on Agriculture.