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Borsa Italiana: New All-Time High For S&P/MIB Index And New Annual High For MIBTEL Index

Date 09/09/2005

Borsa Italiana's S&P/MIB Index reached new all-time high(*), annual high for MIBTEL.

Beijing Urges Banking Sector Reform As Foreign Investors Prepare For Market Access

Date 09/09/2005

Chinese banks must implement stringent reforms if they are to withstand the competition from foreign banks that will have open access to the Chinese market from 2007 under World Trade Organization rules. “As a result of the reforms, management and corporate governance standards will improve and so will the financial performance of Chinese banks,” Wang Zhaoxing, Assistant Chairman, China Banking Regulatory Commission, People's Republic of China, told more than 600 business, political and civil so

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. Removes September As A Delivery Month For Canola

Date 08/09/2005

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. De-Activates Flaxseed Futures And Options Contracts

Date 08/09/2005

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Inc. (“WCE”) announced today that the flaxseed futures and options contracts have been de-activated from trading on the Exchange’s electronic trading platform effective immediately.

U.S. Senate Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs - Reauthorization Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Statement Of John M. Damgard, President, Futures Industry Association

Date 08/09/2005

Click here to download John Damgard's testimony to the Senate Banking Committee on the subject of CFTC reauthorization. The hearing is scheduled to start Thursday at 10:00 EST.

Tokyo Stock Exchange Donates To Relief And Recovery Efforts For Victims Of Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Date 08/09/2005

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. announced today that it will contribute 5 million yen to the Japanese Red Cross Society to support relief and recovery efforts for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. TSE's donation will be made to the Red Cross via Japanese economic organization, Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation).

TOCOM Changes Warning Points In Oil Market

Date 08/09/2005

The decision was made at the Oil Market Management Committee held on September 7, 2005 to change the warning points for the oil market on and after September 12 as follows.

TOCOM Changes Rules On Reference Price And Warning Points

Date 08/09/2005

The decisions were made to change rules on reference price and warning points at each Market Management Committee for Rubber, Precious Metals, Oil and Aluminum held on September 6 and 7 as follows.

SWX Swiss Exchange: Speedel Holding Ltd. Opens At CHF 125.00

Date 08/09/2005

Today, the shares of Speedel Holding Ltd., a Swiss biotech company, were traded in the main segment of the SWX Swiss Exchange for the first time. The opening price on the SWX was CHF 125.00. This corresponds to a market capitalisation of CHF 847.9 million. Speedel Holding Ltd. belongs to the SPI® and SPI EXTRA® and is also part of the novel sector specific indices SXI LIFE SCIENCES® and SXI Bio+Medtech®, which cover one of Switzerland's most prominent industries.

StreamBase Strengthens Global Profile And Market Position - Company Announces New London Office And Availability Of Report From Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Date 08/09/2005

StreamBase Systems, Inc., provider of the leading stream processing engine (SPE) and source for software to process, analyze and act on real-time data within milliseconds of its arrival, yesterday announced international expansion through the opening of an office in London as well as the availability of a Gartner, Inc. report on StreamBase on the company’s Web site.