Filing Statement

A disclosure document submitted by a listed company to outline material changes in its affairs. Filing statements are not used for the purposes of a financing.

Floating Rate Security

A security whose interest rate or dividend changes with specified market indicators. A floating rate is one that is based on an administered rate, such as a prime rate.

Flow-Through Shares Financing

The dollar value of flow-through shares issued in accordance with a TSX or TSX Venture Exchange approved transaction. The price is determined by the policies of the TSX CompanyManual or TSX Venture Corporate Finance Manual; the price is not adjusted for the value of the flow-through tax benefit available to the security holder. It can be an initial public offering (IPO), secondary offering, or private placement.

Freeze

An interruption in trading on a stock, triggered when an order violates parametersset by TSX.

Frequency

Frequency refers to the given time period on an intraday, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearlyperspective. Typically, choosing a weekly or monthly perspective when looking at several years of data makes it easier to identify long-term trends. Daily charts are useful for active traders and short-term time period charts.
The "Daily", "1-Minute","5-Minute", "15-Minute" and "Hourly" frequency areused for intraday charts andthe remaining choices are applicable to end-of-day charts. This term refers to a TSX Group Historical Performance charting feature.

Front Month

The closest month to expiration for a futures or option contract.

Futures

Contracts to buy or sell securities at a future date.

Edward Glenn Hadden is under investigation by regulators at CME Group

(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley trader Edward Glenn Hadden is under investigation by regulators at CME Group over trades in Treasury futures four years ago while he was employedby Goldman Sachs , according to a regulatory filing.
Hadden is a managing director and head of global interest rates products at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Hadden was a partner at Goldman Sachs, and head of government bond trading.
Regulators at CME Group, which runs commodity and futures exchanges, initiated a probe against Hadden over Treasury futures ordersplaced on the expiration date in December 2008, according to a "broker check" report published by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
The New York Times first broke news of the investigation.
Citing people briefed on thematter, the newspaper said the probe aimed to establishwhether Hadden's late trades had manipulated closing prices and, in turn, made other of his trades more profitable. (http://link.reuters.com/peh44t)
A Morgan Stanley spokesman confirmed to Reuters that Hadden is still employed with the bank but did not provide further information.

Ex Right

The holder of shares purchased ex dividend is not entitled to an upcomingalready-declared dividend,but is entitled to future dividends.

Ex Dividend

The holder of shares purchased ex dividend is not entitled to an upcomingalready-declared dividend,but is entitled to future dividends.