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Date 22/08/2008
Maurren Maggi, From The BM&FBOVESPA Athletics Club, Makes Gold Medal History In Beijing
Maurren Maggi, a Brazilian athlete from the BM&FBOVESPA Athletics Club, won a gold medal in the long jump today, August 22, and became Brazil’s first women’s track-and-field athlete to win an individual gold medal in the Olympic Games. With a leap of 7.04m on her first jump, Maurren surpassed Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva who won silver with a jump of 7.03m. Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria took home the bronze medal, with a mark of 6.91m.
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Date 22/08/2008
CME Group Announces New Members Of Its Board Of Directors And Special Dividend
CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) today announced the three new directors from NYMEX Holdings, Inc. who will serve on the company's board of directors effective immediately. The three new directors are: James Newsome, Class I with a term expiring in 2011 Robert Steele, Class II, with a term expiring in 2009 Dennis Suskind, Class III, with a term expiring in 2010 CME Group Inc. also declared a special dividend of $5.00 per share of its Class A and Class B common stock, a
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Date 22/08/2008
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: The shareholders Duvernay Oil Corp. (TSX:DDV) have accepted the $CDN83.00 cash per share offer from Shell Canada Limited. Duvernay will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity and the S&P/TSX Capped Energy indices after the close of trading on Tuesday, August 26, 2008.
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Date 22/08/2008
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index
Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, August 22, 2008: Westward Explorations Ltd. (TSXVN:WWE) will be removed from the index. The company will be transferred to NEX to trade under the ticker symbol "WWE.H" and there is no change to the CUSIP number and no consolidation of capital.
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Date 22/08/2008
SEC Enforcement Division Announces Preliminary Settlement With Merrill Lynch To Help Auction Rate Securities Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement today announced that a preliminary settlement in principle has been reached with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (Merrill Lynch) that would enable investors who purchased auction rate securities from the firm to receive a total of up to $7 billion to restore their losses and liquidity.
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Date 22/08/2008
New York Attorney General Cuomo Announces Settlements With Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, And Deutsche Bank To Recover Billions For Investors In Auction Rate Securities - Total Of Over $10.5 Billion To Be Returned To Investors - Total Of Approximately $50
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo yesterday announced another round of agreements to provide liquidity to consumers who purchased auction rate securities. Under the latest series of agreements, Merrill Lynch & Co. (“Merrill Lynch”), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“Goldman Sachs”), Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG (collectively, “Deutsche Bank”) will return an estimated $10 billion to investors across New York State and the nation. The
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Date 22/08/2008
KCBT Wheat Daily Price Limit For Trade Date August 25, 2008 At 60 Cents
Price limits for KCBT hard red winter wheat futures are at 60 cents for trade date August 25, 2008 (effective with the August 24 evening session).
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Date 22/08/2008
Statement Of SEC Chairman Christopher Cox Regarding Today’s Circuit Court Decision
SEC Chairman Christopher Cox today issued the following statement regarding a decision in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: “The decision today of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholding the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is welcome news for the Commission, investors and U.S. capital markets. “The creation of the PCAOB was a central
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Date 22/08/2008
Post-Trading: European Commission Expert Group Calls For Harmonised Solution To Dismantle Legal Barriers In Cross-Border Securities Transactions
The European Commission's Legal Certainty Group (LCG) has put forward solutions to legal barriers related to the cross-border holding and settlement of securities. The solutions proposed in its report, entitled 'Second Advice', are expected to lead to an improved and harmonised legal framework for holding and settlement of securities through intermediaries and for the processing of corporate actions. Furthermore, the report proposes to give issuers free c
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Date 22/08/2008
Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) Sub-Industry Changes in the S&P European Indices
As announced on 17 December 2007, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) annual structural review will be implemented after the close of business on Friday 29 August 2008. Details of the restructure are available at Standard & Poor’s website www.gics.standardandpoors.com
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