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CFTC'S Division Of Enforcement Names New Regional Counsel For Chicago And New York Offices - Rosemary Hollinger New Regional Counsel For Chicago And Stephen Obie Takes Over As Regional Counsel For New York

Date 18/09/2002

The Division of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today the appointments of Rosemary Hollinger as the Regional Counsel for the Chicago office of the Division and Stephen Obie as the Regional Counsel for the New York office of the Division.
CFTC Appoints Richard E. Collier To Be Central Regional Office Coordinator

Date 18/09/2002

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today the appointment of Richard E. Collier to serve as the regional coordinator for its Central Regional Office, effective immediately. Currently, Richard is Supervisory Auditor in the Central Regional Office of the Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight and he will continue in that role.
CBOT Soybean Oil Futures Contract Sets A Volume Record On Exchange Electronic Trading Platform

Date 18/09/2002

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) yesterday announced that its members set a new daily volume record for soybean oil futures on the exchange's electronic trading platform with 1,696 contracts traded on September 16, breaking the previous record of 871 contracts set on August 19, 2002. With the inclusion of the open auction market, a total of 28,459 soybean oil futures contracts were traded on September 16.
CBOT Mini-Sized Dow Sets New Volume Record

Date 18/09/2002

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that volume in its CBOT mini-sized DowSM Jones Index futures, which trade exclusively on the exchange's electronic platform, yesterday set a new daily record trading 16,149 contracts, with open interest reaching an all-time high at 20,059 contracts. The former daily volume record of 13,993 contracts was set September 3, 2002.
CBOT Fed Watch

Date 18/09/2002

In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 24, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.

Canada Must Take Action To Help Emerging Companies Access Capital - UBC And The Canadian Foundation For Investor Education To Host International Symposium On Risk Capital In Canada

Date 18/09/2002

In a speech to UBC MBA students and alumni, TSX Venture Exchange President Linda Hohol, today called on all levels of government and corporate Canada to join her in discussing solutions to the country's lack of risk capital at an international symposium to be held in Vancouver on November 7, 2002.
ASX Welcomes Government Corporate Law Reforms

Date 18/09/2002

Australian Stock Exchange Ltd (ASX) welcomes the release of the Federal Government's initiative for corporate law reform, which paves the way for a sensible review and enhancement of Australian corporate behaviour and performance that should benefit both investors and companies.
Standard & Poor's Unveils Constituents Of The S&P Hedge Fund Index - Publishes White Paper Detailing Structure And Methodology Of Index

Date 17/09/2002

Following the general introduction of the S&P Hedge Fund Index earlier this year, Standard & Poor's, a leading global provider of indices and benchmarks, today announced the components of the index, the list of which is available on www.spglobal.com/indexmainhedge_data.html . Standard & Poor's has also published a white paper that details the structure and methodology of the index, expected to be launched shortly.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P Canadian Indices - Quarterly Re-balancing

Date 17/09/2002

Please click here to download a details of the quarterly re-balancing of S&P Canadian Indices.
SEC Fee Rate Advisory #2 for Fiscal Year 2003

Date 17/09/2002

When fiscal year 2003 starts on Oct. 1, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission may be operating under a continuing resolution. In that event, the Section 6(b) fee rate applicable to the registration of securities, the Section 13(e) fee rate applicable to the repurchase of securities, and the Section 14(g) fee rates applicable to proxy solicitations and statements in corporate control transactions will remain at the current rate of $92.00 per million. Five days after enactment of the Commis