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

Date 06/03/2003

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday, March 6, 2003: Getty Copper Corp. (TSXVN:GTY) will change its name to Getty Copper Inc. The new ticker symbol will be "GTC" and the new CUSIP number will be 374271 10 4. The shares will be consolidated on a 1-for-2 basis and the new number of shares issued and outstanding will be 16,701,156.
Securities And Exchange Commission: Office Of The Chief Accountant Selects Four Professional Accounting Fellows

Date 06/03/2003

The Securities and Exhange Commission's Office of the Chief Accountant has selected four professional accounting fellows for two-year terms beginning in April 2003: Robert J. Comerford, currently a senior manager in Deloitte & Touche LLP's Global Markets Group based in New York Russell P. Hodge, a senior manager in Ernst & Young LLP's Southeast Area Professional Practice Group in Atlanta, Ga. John M. James, a director in PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's Professional, Techn
Program Trading Averaged 38.4 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Feb. 24-28, 2003

Date 06/03/2003

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 Feb. 24-28, 2003.
Nymex Expands Energy Price Limits; Reduces Market Halts To Five Minutes

Date 06/03/2003

The board of directors of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., last night voted to revise the price limit rules, effective with tomorrow's trading session, for its benchmark energy markets to expand the limits; reduce the time of the halt when those limits are reached to five minutes; and eliminate restrictions on the number of halts and limit expansions in a session.
Nymex Announces Launch Plans For Monthly, Weekly, And Daily PJM Electricity Futures Contracts

Date 06/03/2003

The board of directors of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., last night approved launch plans for its three financially settled Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Maryland (PJM) electricity futures contracts, with the monthly contract scheduled to be introduced on April 11; the weekly contract to be introduced the afternoon of May 22 for the trade date of May 23; and the daily contracts to be introduced the afternoon of May 29 for the trade date of May 30.

NASD Charges Frank Quattrone With Spinning, Undermining Research Analyst Objectivity, Failure To Cooperate In Investigation

Date 06/03/2003

NASD today charged Frank P. Quattrone, formerly the head of Credit Suisse First Boston's (CSFB's) technology sector investment banking unit (Tech Group), with "spinning" violations as well as creating and overseeing a flawed organizational structure that undermined research analyst objectivity. In a separate complaint filed today, NASD also charged Quattrone with failing to cooperate in an NASD investigation into whether he encouraged CSFB Tech Group employees to destroy documents after he was n
Investors Want To Choose Trade Types Themselves, So Shows New User Survey From The Copenhagen Stock Exchange

Date 06/03/2003

When it comes to securities trading, the users of the Exchange's website want to choose themselves whether to trade securities at a limit price, an average price, as an immediate transaction1 or an on-exchange trade where the investor's order enters the trading system and moves into the market directly. This is one of the results from a survey among the CSE users.
Euronext.liffe: UK Equity Option Product Enhancements

Date 06/03/2003

To respond to the growing trend toward sector-based trading strategies and to further develop liquidity in the "focus group" of equity options on the top UK names, Euronext.liffe is implementing product enhancements to its range of UK individual equity options. These are summarised in the UK Equity Options Product Enhancements fact sheet.
Dow Jones Announces Changes In The Composition Of Country Blue Chip Indexes - Changes Are A Result Of An Annual Review Of The Dow Jones Country Titans Indexes

Date 06/03/2003

Dow Jones Indexes today announced changes in the composition of the Dow Jones Country Titans indexes.
CME Adds Serial Months To Live Cattle Futures Contract

Date 06/03/2003

The Board of Directors of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has approved the addition of serial (odd) months to the live cattle futures contract. Live cattle futures will begin trading 12 months per year, with the additional serial month contracts of January, March, May, July, September and November listed approximately 120 days prior to expiration.