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NYSE Member Firms Report Fourth-Quarter And Full-Year 2004 Results

Date 31/03/2005

New York Stock Exchange member firms that conduct business with the public reported fourth-quarter 2004 after-tax profits of $3.06 billion and revenues of $47.0 billion, compared to $3.11 billion in after-tax profits on revenues of $36.22 billion in fourth-quarter 2003. In 2004, the firms reported after-tax profits of $8.92 billion on revenues of $160.25 billion, compared with after-tax profits of $10.89 billion on revenues of $144.52 billion in 2003.
NYSE Announces Second-Quarter 2005 Circuit-Breaker And Trading-Collar Levels

Date 31/03/2005

The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker and trading-collar trigger levels for second-quarter 2005, effective Friday, April 1, 2005.
NASDAQ Announces Updates To The Eligibility Criteria For Selected NASDAQ Indexes

Date 31/03/2005

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ(R)) (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced several updates to the criteria for inclusion in the NASDAQ-100 Index(R), NASDAQ Financial-100 Index(R), and NASDAQ Biotechnology Index(R).
Investable Weight Factor Change For Terna SpA In The S&P/MIB Index

Date 31/03/2005

Standard & Poor’s will change the IWF (Investable Weight Factor) for Terna SPA (Italy, ISIN IT0003242622), a member of the S&P/MIB Index, from 0.5 to 0.639 effective at the close of trading Tuesday, April 05 2005. This is following the sale of ordinary shares by Enel SpA, which has reduced its holding by 13.86 percent of shares outstanding.
Instinet Group Completes Acquisition Of Bridge Trading

Date 31/03/2005

Instinet Group Incorporated (NASDAQ: INGP), the global electronic agency brokerage, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Bridge Trading Company, an agency execution broker, from Reuters (LSE: RTR.L; NASDAQ: RTRSY), the global information company, for 3,751,527 shares of INGP stock, valued at approximately $21.5 million. Bridge Trading has received all the necessary regulatory approvals, and Instinet Group expects the transaction, which closed today, to be accretive to its sha

Florida Brokerage Firm LH Ross Expelled, Owner Franklyn Michelin Barred For Life To Settle NASD Charges Of Widespread, Ongoing Fraud - Brokerage, Michelin Withdraw Appeals Of Prior Hearing Panel Decisions - Previously Ordered Sanctions, Including Over $11

Date 31/03/2005

NASD announced today that it has expelled Boca Raton, FL-based brokerage firm LH Ross from the securities industry and barred its owner and president, Franklyn Michelin, for life to resolve charges of manipulation, fraud, excessive markups, sales of unregistered securities, books and records violations and supervisory violations in two pending enforcement actions against the firm. Both matters were scheduled to go before NASD hearing panels in coming weeks.
Federation Of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges March Newsletter Posted On The Web

Date 31/03/2005

The FEAS March Newsletter, the monthly bulletin, bringing you general secretariat news, Member statistics on stock, bond and other volume comparisons on a monthly, year-to-date and prior period basis, in addition to market cap, currency changes, number of companies traded and index fluctuations, has been put on the FEAS website. To view click here.
February 2005: Performance Of MICEX Markets And MICEX Stock Exchange

Date 31/03/2005

In February 2005, 1 575 billion rubles (56.3 billion US dollars) worth of transactions were concluded in all of the MICEX markets, which is about 23.7% % more than in January and 45% more than in February 2004.
Eurex US Files Amended Antitrust Complaint Against CBOT And CME - Nandapurkar: We Welcome The Chance To Argue Our Case In Chicago

Date 31/03/2005

The fully-electronic futures and options exchange Eurex US has filed its second amended antitrust complaint against the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The amended complaint was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Eurex US had filed an antitrust action against the two exchanges on October 14, 2003 for repeated anticompetitive behavior and unlawful attempts to block the entrance of a new competitor to the market.
CESR Was Honoured To Welcome Today A Delegation Of Members Of The European Parliament From The Committee On Economic And Monetary Affairs To Discuss The Work Of CESR At Its Head Quarters In Paris

Date 31/03/2005

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