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Read More at Wikipedia ›The parent of the Chicago Board Options Exchange on Friday claimed victory over a rival stock-options market in a years-long battle over the right to offer contracts on major stock-market indexes.
The Illinois Appellate Court ruled in favor of CBOE Holdings Inc. (CBOE) and major index providers in a legal dispute with the International Securities Exchange, which has sought to list its own options linked to equity benchmarks such as the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average."We are obviously gratified that the court has ruled in CBOE's favor," said William Brodsky, chairman and chief executive of CBOE, in a statement.A spokeswoman for the ISE said the exchange would "evaluate all of the options to determine next steps," but declined further comment. The ISE is a unit of Germany-based exchange company Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1.XE, DBOEF).At issue are options contracts on widely followed indexes that trade exclusively on CBOE's markets, thanks to licensing agreements bet...Pearson PLC (PSON.LN), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, Friday produced a healthy rise in first-quarter revenue, but warned profit w...
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McGraw-Hill Cos.' (MHP) first-quarter profit rose 2.5%, driven by gains in two financial businesses, though revenue in its education segment returned to a decline.Fo...
McGraw-Hill (NYSE:MHP) reported on Tuesday a stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit as growth in its Capital IQ business and indices helped offset further decli...
Phillips 66 (PSX), the refining company splitting from ConocoPhillips (COP), will replace Supervalu Inc. (SVU) in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index at the end of the...
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Before giving Egan-Jones Ratings Co. the power to rate bonds and other securities in late 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly held serious concer...
DOW JONES NEWSWIRESMcGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) hired a Nomura Securities International executive to head its S&P Capital IQ research operations at a time when the busines...
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and lead underwriter Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) were reportedly hit with another shareholder lawsuit on Wednesday over the social network's contro...
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AllianceBernstein Holding LP (AB) said Monday it has named former McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) executive John C. Weisenseel as its new financial chief.Weisenseel most rece...
McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) made a handful of executive changes in its education unit as it pushes forward with its planned separation of the business into a standalone c...
Trading on a small Dubai futures market backed by CME Group Inc. (CME) could pick up more steam after the Chicago-based exchange operator boosted its stake in the pl...
A federal appeals court on Monday revived an International Securities Exchange patent lawsuit against rival Chicago Board Options Exchange in a long-running dispute ...
Three of the world's top oil price reporting agencies Monday laid out a proposal for a price reporting code designed to provide the industry with a more robust frame...
