The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) declared effective the Form S-4 registration statement relating to the proposed combination between NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V. NYSE Group and Euronext N.V. have entered into an agreement providing for a combination of their businesses under a new holding company named NYSE Euronext. The combination will create the first global exchange group, encompassing seven exchanges in six countries.
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. 13-17.
New research by professional services and outsourcing company, Harvey Nash, highlights how the UK would lose GBP54.3 billion a year without the assistance of professional and managerial workers from overseas.
A survey released today by Simply Business, the UK's first online comparative and purchasing facility for business finance & insurance, has revealed that the UK small business community are less likely to use Google than UK consumers.
Over January-September 2006 volume of export of crude oil and gas condensate from Russia (including Byelorussia's volume data) has decreased by 1,2% to 186,6 million tons as against that of 2005, informed Rosstat of Russia referring to the Federal Custom Service of Russia.
The Chinese surface mount technology (SMT) equipment market is a rapidly developing market and will continue to grow strongly mainly driven by demand from end-user sectors like telecom and computers. However, factors like declining prices of the SMT equipment are limiting the growth of the market.
The Czech Republic needs to establish liability against legal persons for foreign bribery without delay and put in place sanctions that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive, according to a report by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery.
EU energy ministers have presented their views on the future direction of the EU?s energy policy in contributing to the strategic decisions that will be taken in the European Council meeting next March. The transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Brussels on November 23 was chaired by Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen and focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Six months after having obtained the mandate from EU Member States, the European Commission has succeeded in negotiating an agreement with the Russian Federation on the longstanding issue of Siberian overflight payments. It finally solves a 20 years thorny conflict between the EU Member States and the Russian Federation, costing around € 300 million to EU airlines in 2006. Vice-President Jacques Barrot initialled today the agreement with the Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin in the margins of the EU-Russia summit in Helsinki on 24 November in the presence of the Finnish transport Minister Ms Susanna Huovinen.
