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Standard & Poor’s Changes The S&P/MIB Index Methodology

Date 14/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s announces the following amendments to the S&P/MIB methodology effective immediately. The changes will minimize small intra-quarter changes to attenuate the costs of trading and increase the S&P/MIB’s usability.
Royal Dutch Shell A Shares Will Replace Royal Dutch Petroleum Company And Royal Dutch Shell B Shares Will Replace Shell Transport & Trading Company In The S&P European Indices

Date 14/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Europe 350, S&P Europe Plus, S&P Euro and S&P United Kingdom Indices effective at the close of trading Tuesday, July 19, 2005: Royal Dutch Shell A shares (United Kingdom, SEDOL B03MLX2, GICS: Energy, GICS Code: 10102010) will replace Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands, SEDOL 5202704) in the S&P Europe 350 index and will be added to the S&P United Kingdom index, after the close of trading on Tuesday, July 19, 20
Program Trading Averaged 55.8 Percent Of NYSE Volume During July 5-8

Date 14/07/2005

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 5-8.
NYSE Says SEC Proposal Will Make Bond Market More Transparent To Investing Public

Date 14/07/2005

Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed allowing NYSE members and member organizations to trade certain unregistered debt securities on the Exchange’s Automated Bond System® (ABS®). Under the proposal, an exemption from the provisions of section 12(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the NYSE could add a substantial number of existing bonds to ABS, making the benefits of real-time quote and price transparency available to the bond investing public.
Nymex Revises Date Of e-miNY Futures Contracts Migration

Date 14/07/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it will postpone the migration of its NYMEX miNYsm crude oil and natural gas futures contracts to NYMEX ClearPort® from the CME® Globex® electronic trading platform to August 22.

NYBOT Announces New Margin Requirements

Date 14/07/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today that effective with the opening of business on Friday, July 15, 2005, the margin requirements are as detailed by clicking Click here.
New Non-Price Indices From FTSE Group And GWA

Date 14/07/2005

FTSE Group (FTSE), the global index provider, and Global Wealth Allocation Limited (GWA), the global research and financial advisory firm, announced today that they are working together to create seven new ‘non-price’ strategy indices for the global equity market. The new indices will cover all stocks in the FTSE All-Share Index and the FTSE All-World Developed Index. They will be available in the autumn.
KOSPI 200 Option’s Market Reaches Maturity - Market Integrity Has Greatly Improved

Date 14/07/2005

Since the listing on July 7, 1997, the trading volume of KOSPI 200 Options continued to increase before the trend turned around and began to decline in 2003. This downward trend continued in 2005, indicating that the market has reached a stage of maturity The KOSPI 200 Options market has experienced phenomenal growth since its opening and has remained No. 1 in the world as a single contract in terms of trading volume, with a 28% share of the global derivatives trading volume.
Financial Services: European Commission Proposes Improvements To The European Market For Investment Funds

Date 14/07/2005

The European Commission has published a Green Paper on the enhancement of the EU framework for investment funds. The Paper invites consideration and comment on a range of proposals aimed at boosting the efficiency of the single market for investment funds. An efficient European investment fund market - where some €5 trillion of funds are currently under management - is of key importance in the context of enhancing investment and in contributing to better provisioning for old age. Sta
European Commission: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) On The Asset Management Green Paper

Date 14/07/2005

Is the Commission going to legislate in the field of asset management? No. The Commission believes that it needs to build on the existing framework. The new rules have been in place only for a few months. Market participants are still busy coping with the changes entailed by UCITS III. The Commission believes, though, that the new UCITS framework can be made more effective and can lead to missed opportunities. It has a clear short-term and medium-term strategy to remedy thi