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Bahrain Stock Exchange Closed March 1st And 2nd

Date 01/03/2004

Please be informed that Bahrain Stock Exchange will be closed for Monday and Tuesday, 1st and 2nd of March 2004 in occasion of Ashoora.

Axiss Australia Newsletter Issue 83 - 01 March 2004

Date 01/03/2004

Please click here for the latest a2a e-mail newsletter produced by Axiss Australia - a summary of the key events of the past fortnight shaping Australia's position as a global financial services centre in the Asian time zone.

AEX Index And Amsterdam Midkap Index To Trade In New Composition As Of 2 March Following Annual Reweighting

Date 01/03/2004

Annual reweighting of indices In accordance with the rules for the AEX index (AEX) and the rules for the Amsterdam Midkap index (AMX), each index is reweighted annually on the first day of trading in March. This year's reweighting will lead to the following changes in the composition of the indices, which will come into effect on Tuesday 2 March 2003.

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Berhad: Mohd Azlan's Tenure Ends, Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin And Yusli Come On Board

Date 28/02/2004

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Berhad (KLSE Bhd) held a handover ceremony for outgoing Executive Chairman Dato' Mohd Azlan Hashim.

UK's Financial Services Authority Issues Freedom Of Information Publication Scheme

Date 27/02/2004

The Financial Services Authority has today issued its publication scheme under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We are also releasing Policy Statement 04/4 (The FSA's approach to implementing the Freedom of Information Act 2000) which sets out our final policy on operating our publication scheme following the publication of our draft scheme in October 2003 in

Tokyo Stock Exchange: Change of Frequency Of TOPIX New Index Series Constituent Review

Date 27/02/2004

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) announced today that TSE will change the frequency at which it reviews TOPIX New Index Series (TOPIX Core 30, TOPIX 100, TOPIX 500, TOPIX 1000, etc.) constituents from an annual basis to a semiannual basis. This change enables index inclusion of newly listing companies in a timely manner and allows the index to reflect actual market movements more accurately, minimizing rebalancing costs.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 27/02/2004

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, February 27, 2004: International Sovereign Energy Corp. (TSXVN:ISR) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on the TSX under the ticker symbol "ISR" at the open on March 1, 2004.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Date 27/02/2004

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes effective after the close of business on Friday, February 27, 2004: In anticipation of the successful completion of a plan of arrangement whereby Moore Wallace Incorporated (TSX:MWI) will be acquired by R.R. Donnelley & Sons (NYSE:DNY), Moore Wallace Incorporated will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite, S&P/TSX Capped Composite, S&P/TSX MidCap and S&P/TSX Capped Industrials indices. Moore Wallace Inc

SEC Fee Rate Advisory #8 For Fiscal Year 2004

Date 27/02/2004

As required by Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Commission must make a mid-year rate adjustment to the Section 31 transaction fee rate. Effective April 1, 2004, the Section 31 transaction fee rate for fiscal 2004 will decrease from the current rate of $39.00 per million to a revised rate of $23.40 per million. This rate change does not apply to the Section 31 assessment on security futures transactions, which will remain at the current rate of $0.009 per round turn transact

Nymex To Launch PJM Electricity Options On March 5

Date 27/02/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today that it will launch options on its PJM monthly electricity futures contract on March 5.