The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced its consolidated market performance statistics for the NASDAQ Market Center, INET and Brut trading platforms for the month of October.
Euronext reports record results for the first 3 quarters of 2006. Thanks to high levels of trading activity since the beginning of the year, Euronext revenues amounted to a historical high of €820.0m in the first nine months of 2006, compared to €695.5m (+17.9%) during the same period in 2005. For the third quarter, Q3 2006 outperformed revenues in Q3 2005 by 11.9%, making it the highest third quarter ever.
Russia’s domestic and international long-distance voice services market was finally liberalised in January 2006. Numerous long-distance licences have been awarded.
NYSE Group, Inc. today announced that it has received the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval for exemptive relief from the provisions of section 12(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934 permitting NYSE members and member organizations to trade certain unlisted debt securities on the Exchange.
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 Nov. 6-10.
Experian Consumer Direct, provider of online direct-to-consumer credit reports, scores and monitoring, today announced the results of a recent National Score Index study showing a 16.9 percent decline from 2001 to 2006 in the rate at which consumers are opening new credit accounts and a 12.6 percent rate at which late payments of 90 days or more are increasing.The national average credit score is 675 - 7 points lower from 2001 when it was 682.
According to Research and Markets, China's exports of automotive lights are growing at the rate of about 30% annually. Overseas shipments are expected to reach US$300 million in 2006, as demand from Asia, Europe and North America increases steadily and more suppliers venture into the OEM segment.
RealtyTrac(R) today released its October 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows that 115,568 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, the most reported in any month so far this year and an increase of 42 percent from October 2005. The report also shows a national foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,001 U.S. households, the highest monthly foreclosure rate reported so far this year.
Encouraging growth in process industries in China, especially chemicals, petrochemicals oil, gas and nuclear power generation segments, is essentially enhancing the demand for industrial valves and actuators.
The development of wafer foundry industry in China mainland is greatly hampered by IC design houses in China Mainland. Among those 500 IC design houses, only at most 50 are able to have mass productions.
