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CME Group Prices $1.3 Billion Aggregate Principal Amount of Notes to Finance Its Acquisition of NYMEX Holdings, Inc.

Date 07/08/2008

CME Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today announced it priced an underwritten public offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate notes due 2009, $300 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate notes due 2010 and $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.40% notes due 2013. The floating rate notes due 2009 will bear interest equal to LIBOR plus 0.20% per year, adjusted quarterly. The floating rate notes due 2010 will bear interest equal to LIBOR plus 0.65% per year,
KCBT Wheat Daily Price Limit For Trade Date August 8, 2008 At 60 Cents

Date 07/08/2008

Price limits for KCBT hard red winter wheat futures are at 60 cents for trade date August 8, 2008 (effective with the August 7 evening session).
NYMEX To Change Margins For Natural Gas Swing And Index Swap Futures Contracts

Date 07/08/2008

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for its natural gas swing and index swap futures contracts, beginning at the close of business tomorrow.
Program Trading Averaged 22.7 Percent Of NYSE Volume During July 28-Aug. 1

Date 07/08/2008

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for July 28-Aug. 1.
NSX Releases July ETF/ETN Data Report

Date 07/08/2008

National Stock ExchangeSM (NSX®) today announced that U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) assets reached $592.7 billion at the end of July 2008, an increase of 19 percent over $497.3 billion at July 2007 month-end.

FINRA Creates Process For Arbitrations Involving Auction Rate Securities

Date 07/08/2008

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has established a special process for resolving auction rate securities-based claims in its arbitration forum. Qualifying investors will have the option of having their claims heard by a three-person panel of arbitrators, none of whom would be affiliated with a firm that recently sold auction rate securities. The new process comes as a result of the one developed by FINRA for the Securities and Exchange Commission's sett
New York Attorney General Cuomo Announces Landmark Settlement With Citigroup To Recover Billions In Auction Rate Securities For Investors Nationwide

Date 07/08/2008

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a landmark, multi-billion dollar agreement with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Citi Smith Barney (collectively, “Citigroup”) to settle allegations that Citigroup was making misrepresentations in its marketing and sales of auction rate securities. Citigroup marketed and sold auction rate securities as safe, cash-equivalent products, when in fact they faced increasing liquidity risk.
SEC Announces Two New Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Initiatives

Date 07/08/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission staff today unveiled a new one-stop online reference site to assist mutual funds in their anti-money laundering (AML) compliance efforts, and launched a new centralized phone line specifically for securities firms to report the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) that may require immediate attention by the Commission.
Autorité Des Marchés Financiers Facts And Figures 2007

Date 07/08/2008

Click here to download the Autorité Des Marchés Financiers facts and figures 2007.
SEC Charges Microcap Companies aAd Individuals For Improperly Raising Millions In Capital While Harming Investors

Date 07/08/2008

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged six microcap companies, four company officers and several market professionals for their roles in a scheme to raise millions of dollars in capital through improperly registered stocks to fund the companies' struggling businesses.