Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission has knowledge of more than 50 listed companies with ties to organized crime, and in March 2008, the Osaka Securities Exchange decided to review all listed companies and expel those with yakuza ties.

However, as crude and gasoline prices continued to rise between 2007 and 2008 this practice became so contentious that in June 2008 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) decided to create task forces to investigate whether this took place.

As of August 2008, more than 113 countries around the world, including all of Europe, currently require or permit IFRS reporting and 85 require IFRS reporting for all domestic, listed companies, according to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Commissioner Paul S. Atkins of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission considered Federalist Society members " the heirs of James Madison's legacy " in a speech he gave in January 2008 to the Federalist Society Lawyers ' Chapter of Dallas, Texas.

However, since 2008 the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) allows foreign private issuers to use financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS.

Indeed, as a member of President Clinton's Working Group on Financial Markets, Summers, along with U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) Chairman Arthur Levitt, Fed Chairman Greenspan, and Secretary Rubin, torpedoed an effort to regulate the derivatives that many blame for bringing the financial market down in Fall 2008.

The merged group, named Media Chinese International Limited was dual-listed on the mainboards of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in April 2008.

Since 2008, it has since referred to itself only as De La Salle University, being its registered name in the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission.

In March, 2008, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) sued Biovail and some of its former officers, alleging that " present and former senior Biovail executives, obsessed with meeting quarterly and annual earnings guidance, repeatedly overstated earnings and hid losses in order to deceive investors and create the appearance of achieving earnings goals.

On November 17, 2008, it was reported that the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) filed a civil suit against Mark Cuban relating to alleged insider trading in the shares of Mamma. com, now known as Copernic.

Section 132 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, titled " Authority to Suspend Mark-to-Market Accounting " restates the Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to suspend the application of FAS 157 if the SEC determines that it is in the public interest and protects investors.

In 2007, the Options Clearing Corporation proposed a rule change to allow binary options, and the Securities and Exchange Commission approved listing cash-or-nothing binary options in 2008.

ETFs traditionally have been index funds, but in 2008 the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission began to authorize the creation of actively managed ETFs.

The Commonwealth Bank is now the second largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of January 2008 with brands including BankWest, Colonial First State Investments Limited, ASB Bank ( New Zealand ), Commonwealth Securities Limited ( CommSec ) and Commonwealth Insurance Limited ( CommInsure ).

On March 5, 2008, the company filed a withdraw request with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying " terms currently obtainable in the public marketplace are not sufficiently attractive to the Registrant to warrant proceeding with the initial public offering.

On February 21, 2008, the Government of Canada appointed an Expert Panel on Securities Regulation to provide advice and recommendations on securities regulation in Canada.

On May 15, 2008, Samueli, Broadcom CTO, resigned as chairman of the board and took of a leave of absence as Chief Technology Officer after being named in a civil complaint by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ).

On September 25, 2008, Renaissance wrote a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, discouraging them from implementing a rule change which would have permitted the public to access information regarding institutional investors ' short positions, as they can currently do with long positions.

In 2008, World Triathlon Corporation was purchased by Providence Equity Securities for an undisclosed sum.

In April 2008, TM Group was officially demerged ; TMI was listed as a separate entity on Bursa Securities.

* 2008: National City Corp. disclosed in a regulatory filing that it is the subject of an " informal " Securities and Exchange Commission investigation related to matters including loan underwriting, bank regulatory matters, and the sale of a subprime subsidiary, First Franklin Financial Corporation, to Merrill Lynch & Co. for $ 1. 3 Billion in 2006.

The American Stock Exchange merged with the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE Euronext ) on October 1, 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

Exchange Rate-kips ( LAK ) per US dollar-8, 556. 56 ( 2009 ), 8, 760. 69 ( 2008 ), 9, 658 ( 2007 ), 10, 235 ( 2006 ), 10, 820 ( 2005 )

In 2007, the Peruvian economy experienced a growth rate of 9 %, the largest in Latin America, and this repeated in 2008 with a 9. 8 % rate ; in 2006 and 2007, the Lima Stock Exchange grew by 185. 24 %

*" The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations ", John Eppstein, The Lawbook Exchange, 2008, ISBN 1-58477-822-9

In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis.

India's Bombay Stock Exchange Index, SENSEX, was in a bull market trend for about five years from April 2003 to January 2008 as it increased from 2, 900 points to 21, 000 points.

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar-0. 6827 ( 2008 ), 0. 7306 ( 2007 ), 0. 7964 ( 2006 ), 0. 8041 ( 2005 ), 0. 8054 ( 2004 ), 0. 886 ( 2003 ), 1. 0626 ( 2002 ), 1, 1175 ( 2001 ), 0, 9867 ( January 2000 ), 0, 9386 ( 1999 )

In addition to the party-to-party dialogue, de facto governmental dialogue took place via the Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in June 2008 on the basis of the 1992 Consensus, with the first meeting held in Beijing.

In July 2008 the London Stock Exchange ( LSE ) and the TSE announced a new joint venture Tokyo-based market, which will be based on the LSE's Alternative Investment Market ( AIM ).

In September 2008, Sybase 365 expanded its messaging interoperability with the launch of its global Multimedia Messaging Exchange, MMX 365.

* September 2008: Sybase 365 expands its messaging interoperability with the launch of its global Multi-media Messaging Exchange, MMX 365.

In early 2008, the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition named 60 companies having " dominant positions " in Armenia.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

* 2008 MINURCAT Part of a Peacebuilding Commission in the Central African Republic.

In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

Following formal discussions at the International Geological Congress, Oslo Norway, August 2008, the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) decided in May 2009 to make the Quaternary the youngest period of the Cenozoic Era with its base at 2. 588 Mya and including the Gelasian age, which was formerly considered part of the Neogene Period and Pliocene Epoch.

In June 2008 Zoya testified to the Human Rights Commission of the German Parliament ( Bundestag ) to persuade the German government to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission states that " police services have acknowledged that racial profiling does occur and have taken are taking measures to address issue, including upgrading training for officers, identifying officers at risk of engaging in racial profiling, and improving community relations "( Griffiths, 2008, p. 311 ).

A European Commission forecast had predicted Spain would enter a recession by the end of 2008.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

* European Commission, Pharmaceuticals, Sector Inquiry, 2008 ( Public Consultation, Preliminary Report ).

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimated in 2008 that around 3, 000 pounds of softshell turtles were exported each week via Tampa International Airport.

In January 2008, the Commission for freeing French development, known as the Attali Commission, recommended that the departmental level of government should be eliminated within ten years.

Eastwood and Shriver supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it duly did in February 2008.

The Omaha Sports Commission is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization that coordinates much of the professional and amateur athletic activity in the city, including the 2008 and 2012 US Olympic Swimming Team Trials and the building of a new stadium in North Downtown.

The University of Nebraska and the Commission co-hosted the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division One Women's Volleyball Championship in December of that year.

The above paragraphs, from a European Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008, in essence, exhorted five eurozone members to change their national designs.

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The European Commission issued a recommendation on 19 December 2008, a common guideline for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation.