NEW YORK, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX) , today announced that it set daily volume records for total natural gas futures traded on electronic and open outcry venues and natural gas futures traded on the CME Globex electronic trading platform.

NYMEX launched its physically settled futures contracts for trading on CME Globex during regular open outcry trading hours on September 5, 2006, following its initial offering of financially settled, standard-sized and NYMEX miNY energy futures contracts for trading on CME Globex on June 12, 2006.

Brussels warns France on protecting Société Générale

I feel that the Bank Societe Generale,the whole Management Structure,its Audit and Finance Dept should be thoroughly investigated. Then Restructured. All the findings/Report should be made public so that the word "tranparency" is adhered. The poor Trader is the fall guy,no doubt was over eager to please his Bosses and should be cleared

Mind & Mathematics

Since this method of teaching basic mathematics is in its preliminary stage, the long-term effect on the overall brain development of the students, is yet to be assessed contrary to claims by Aloha, he added. Wizard sans teacher

Anurag Kapoor, a Plus One student of the Dayananad Model Senior Secondary School, is a proven expert in mental mathematics. He has been good at at since the age of five.

He has not learnt it from any teacher as Aloha students, no abacus and no Vedic Mathematics. He can add, subtract, multiply and divide any two-digit number, find root of a perfect square and find a day in any particular year, much like Tejas, Alohas star student in Bangalore.

Anurag has cleared the National Talent Search Examination and is waiting for the interview result.Vedic mathematics

It is a system of mental calculation developed by Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji in the middle of the 20th century.

Slouching towards Petroeurostan

Now more than ever, it may also signal a geoeconomic earthquake, a potentially shattering blow to US dollar hegemony.

The Iranian oil bourse - the first oil, gas and petrochemical exchange in the Islamic Republic, and the first within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - was launched on Sunday by Irans Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari, flanked by Minister of Economy and Financial Affairs Davoud Danesh Jafari, the man who will head the exchange.

Officially called the Iranian International Petroleum Exchange



(IIPE), it is widely known in Iran and the Persian Gulf as the Kish bourse, named after Kish island, a free zone (declared by the shah) in an ideal laissez faire setting: lots of condos and duty-free malls, no Khomeini mega-portraits and hordes of young honeymooners shopping for made-in-Europe home appliances.

Flat-out weird: Sergio doubles up on putters in first-round victory

For the headshrinkers, the psychological merits of such a decision can be bandied about, of course. On the positive front, if he putts poorly, he has a fallback plan. But mentally, failing to commit to a putter might subconsciously undermine the whole endeavor.

"I did make a decision early on and I went with it for pretty much the whole round," Garcia said. "But then I started not feeling quite as comfortable. I hit a couple not very good putts.