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Date 05/01/2000
CBOE Ends Year As The First Exchange To Average Over A Million Options Contracts Per Day
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has announced that it set new records in annual and monthly volume. Total exchange-wide volume soared to 254,331,851 contracts in 1999, accounting for a record year at CBOE that represents a 23% increase over the record setting 206,865,991 contracts traded in 1998. Average daily volume rose to 1,009,253 contracts in 1999, compared to 1998's record setting pace of 820,897 contracts. Exchange wide open interest reached an all-time year-end high, standing a
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Date 04/01/2000
SFE Market Begins New Year Smoothly
The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) opened for the first time in 2000 at 8.30am this morning, Tuesday 4 January, without disruption following the New Year changeover.
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Date 04/01/2000
Oslo Bourse Review of 1999
December 1999 was the best December since 1988. Led by IT shares, the all-share index shot up 8.9 per cent. Several European bourses rose by an even greater margin. The IT index rose by all of 35.4 per cent. But a solid rise was also recorded for a number of other sectors: 8.6 per cent for the shipping index and 9.7 per cent for the industrial index. The all-share index rose 45.5 per cent in 1999, a figure topped on only three previous occasions: in 1983, 1989 and 1993. Even so it ended the year
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Date 04/01/2000
Minneapolis Grain Exchange Breaks Annual Volume Record
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange is pleased to announce several annual volume records. Total futures and options volume for 1999 at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange hit 1,188,815 contracts, breaking last year's record. Previous record volume, set in 1998, was 1,169,533 contracts. Total options volume for 1999 increased 21 percent to 53,870 contracts. The previous options volume record was set in 1997, when a total of 47,710 contracts traded. Total futures volume was 1,134,945 contracts, also break
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Date 04/01/2000
Millennium Update Issued By The LSE Nerve Centre Following A Checkpoint At 0800 On 4 January 2000
The Exchange has again monitored all key systems overnight and no date related problems have been found. All procedures related to the start of the trading day have been performed successfully and the market has opened for business as usual
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Date 04/01/2000
LIFFE - Y2K Status Report
LIFFE's markets opened this morning as scheduled and trading is in progress as normal. Our Year 2000 testing has now been completed and no issues have been identified.
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Date 04/01/2000
IPE Successfully Completes Millennium Testing
The IPE opened for business as usual this morning following a successful test of its internal and external systems and facilities over the long weekend. A comprehensive programme had been developed to ensure that the IPE was fully prepared for the millennium bug and could continue to offer risk management and investment services to the international energy and financial industries.
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Date 04/01/2000
Booming Equity Markets, Electronic Trading Fuel Solid Volume Year For Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The booming U.S. stock market and growth in electronic trading helped the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) mark one of its best years ever in 1999, as equity index products posted record volume for the year.
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Date 04/01/2000
1999 Record Year For IPE
Volumes of trade at the IPE reached their highest ever level last year as dramatic oil price movements drove home the advantages of using the IPE for managing risk and trading.
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Date 03/01/2000
Singapore Exchange Trades Smoothly In Y2000
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pleased to announce that the systems for both its securities and derivatives markets have successfully made the crossover to Year 2000 and that trading has proceeded smoothly today.
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