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BATS ECN Hits 400M-Share Milestone

Date 27/06/2007

BATS Trading Inc.'s ECN set a daily volume record Wednesday with more than 401 million shares traded, surpassing the 400-million mark for the first time.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 27/06/2007

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Wednesday, June 27, 2007: ECU Silver Mining Inc. (TSXVN:ECU) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to the TSX and will trade under the same ticker symbol. Acadian Gold Corporation (TSXVN:ADA) will change its name to Acadian Mining Corporation. The company will continue to trade under the ticker symbol ADA and with new CUSIP number 004269 10 6
CBOT Fed Watch - June 27, 2007

Date 27/06/2007

In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on June 28, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 27/06/2007

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders of Tenke Mining Corp. (TSX:TNK) have approved the acquisition of the company by Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX:LUN). Tenke Mining 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 SmallCap and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials and Capped Diversified Metals & Mining
CalPERS Joins Diversity "Pipeline" Project

Date 27/06/2007

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, in its ongoing effort to promote and enhance diversity in the workplace and in its business operations, today announced it is becoming a founding member of the California Aspire Achieve Lead Pipeline Project (CaAAL Pipeline Project). The project is an innovative education and mentoring program that seeks to encourage and develop young people for careers in the legal profession, financial services, and information technology.

ISS Recommends CME Shareholders Vote 'FOR' Merger With CBOT

Date 27/06/2007

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME)(NASDAQ: CME) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that CME shareholders vote "FOR" the merger of CBOT Holdings, Inc. with CME. In a separate report, ISS also recommended that CBOT shareholders vote "FOR" the merger. ISS is the leading independent U.S. proxy advisory firm and its voting analyses and recommendations are relied upon by hundreds of major institutional investment funds, mutual funds an
Banco Popolare – Societa Cooperativa Will Replace Banco Popolare Di Verona E Novara In The S&P European Indices

Date 27/06/2007

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro indices effective after the close of trading on Friday 29 June, 2007:
IntercontinentalExchange Sets Date For Second Quarter 2007 Earnings Release And Conference Call

Date 27/06/2007

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange, will announce second quarter 2007 financial results on Thursday, July 26, 2007. An earnings press release will be issued prior to the earnings conference call, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET.
CBOT: Letter To Members Regarding Strategic Merger With The CME

Date 27/06/2007

Dear Members: We are pleased with today’s news that Institutional Shareholder Services, the leading independent proxy advisory firm, is supporting our strategic merger with the CME. We also appreciate the feedback we continue to receive and the support that many of you continue to voice on behalf of the CME/CBOT combination. We want to further emphasize what we believe is one of the most important considerations in this historic combination: integration and executi
NASD Fines Wells Fargo Securities $250,000 For Failing To Disclose Analyst's Employment With Covered Company In Research Report - NASD Also Suspends Former Director Of Research, Files Complaint Against Analyst

Date 27/06/2007

NASD announced today that it censured and fined Wells Fargo Securities, LLC of San Francisco $250,000 - and imposed a $40,000 fine and 60-day supervisory suspension against its former Director of Research, Douglas van Dorsten - for failing to disclose in a research report that the lead analyst on the report had accepted a job at Cadence Design Systems, a San Jose, CA company that was the subject of the report.