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Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 19/12/2005

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Monday, December 19, 2005: Resin Systems Inc. (TSXVN:RS) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to the TSX to trade under the same ticker symbol.
Smart Initiative To Help New Zealanders Invest And Save

Date 19/12/2005

New Zealanders know they need to become a nation of savers and asset owners. The message has been sent loud and clear by economists, forecasters, the Government and the central bank. If we don't start saving, making informed financial choices and planning for our futures, our financial security and that of the country looks decidedly shaky.
SEC Charges Two With Insider Trading In Advance Of Announcement Of Howard Stern’s Sirius Deal - Accountant And Radio Executive To Give Up Ill-Gotten Gains, Pay Penalties

Date 19/12/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it filed and settled insider trading charges both against an accountant and a former executive of Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. who illegally profited from advance knowledge of radio personality Howard Stern’s $500 million contract with Sirius. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, Gary D. Herwitz, a certified public accountant and former president of the accounting firm Mahoney Cohen & Company, agreed to pay $52,000, and f
SEC Charges Two With Insider Trading In Advance Of Announcement Of Howard Stern’s Sirius Deal - Accountant And Radio Executive To Give Up Ill-gotten Gains, Pay Penalties

Date 19/12/2005

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it filed and settled insider trading charges both against an accountant and a former executive of Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. who illegally profited from advance knowledge of radio personality Howard Stern’s $500 million contract with Sirius. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, Gary D. Herwitz, a certified public accountant and former president of the accounting firm Mahoney Cohen & Company, agreed to pay $52,000, and f
SEC Chairman Cox Urges Software Industry To Help Speed Adoption Of Interactive Data

Date 19/12/2005

As part of the Commission's ongoing efforts to make financial disclosure more useful and accessible to investors, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox met today with representatives of the accounting and financial reporting software industry to express support for integrating interactive data capabilities into existing accounting and financial reporting software.

RTS Classic Market Weekly Trading Statistics

Date 19/12/2005

On the week of December 12th, - December 16th, 2005, RTS Index rose 1.57% and reached 1099, 25 points (1082,40 as of December 9th closing). On Wednesday, December 14th , 2005, RTS Index has gone through 1100 points for the first time in the index history; on Wednesday, December 15th , 2005, the new all-time record – 1108, 51 – was established. This happened before Standard & Poor" s announced its decision to upgrade its credit rating of the Russian Federation. On this announcement many professio
PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF Lists On The NYSE - First ETF Based On A Fundamentally Weighted Index

Date 19/12/2005

The New York Stock Exchange announced today that the first NYSE-listed PowerSharesTM ETF, the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio, began trading under ticker symbol PRF. PRF tracks the performance of the largest US companies by mirroring the FTSE RAFI US 1000 Index, which captures the top companies based on fundamental financial factors such as book value, income, sales and dividends rather than market capitalization.
NZX Welcomes Goodman Fielder To The NZSX Market

Date 19/12/2005

New Zealand Exchange Limited (NZX) is pleased to welcome Goodman Fielder (GFF) to the NZSX market today.
NYMEX Holdings, Inc., To Distribute Dividend To Shareholders

Date 19/12/2005

The board of directors of NYMEX Holdings, Inc., voted to declare and distribute a dividend of $3.6 million to stockholders of record as of December 30, 2005.
NYBOT's World Sugar Market Continues Streak With New Volume And Open Interest Records

Date 19/12/2005

The World Sugar No. 11sm contract at the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) continued its record-setting pace and set several new volume and open interest records on December 16, 2005: A new options volume record of 51,768 contracts replaced the previous high of 47,170 contracts established December 1, 2005. In open interest, the World Sugar options contract (symbol SO) reached a new record of 555,998 contracts, replacing the December 15 open interest record of 539