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SIFMA Applauds SEC Approval Of Proposals To Address Extraordinary Market Volatility

Date 01/06/2012

SIFMA today released the following statement from Randy Snook, executive vice president, in response to the approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of two proposals that seek to address extraordinary volatility in individual stocks and the broader stock markets. These proposals -- for updated market-wide circuit breakers and the establishment of a limit up-limit down mechanism that replaces the existing single stock circuit breakers -- were put forward by the national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Closed Down 6.21% In May, According To Dow Jones Indexes - 820.18 Point Drop Is Second Largest For May - Four Of The Dow’s 30 Component Stocks Closed Month In Positive Territory - Wal-Mart Topped All 30 Components With 11.73% Gain

Date 01/06/2012

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the longest running and most widely quoted U.S. stock-market index, fell 6.21% in May, according to data compiled by Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider.

ISE Reports Business Activity For May 2012

Date 01/06/2012

• ISE was the second largest equity options exchange in May with market share of 18.3%, excluding dividend trades.
• Dividend trades made up 3.8% of industry volume in May 2012.

Program Trading Averaged 29.8 Percent Of NYSE Volume During May 21-25

Date 01/06/2012

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today released its weekly program-trading data compiled from member firms' executed volume from NYSE's orders database. The report includes trading on the NYSE for May 21-25.

BOX Options Exchange June 2012 InBOX

Date 01/06/2012

This is the June issue of InBOX, your news source from inside the BOX Options Exchange. This monthly publication will provide convenient summaries of recent developments at BOX.

The Options Industry Council Announces May Options Trading Volume Up 5%

Date 01/06/2012

The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 377,539,997 total options contracts changed hands in May, up 5.07 percent compared to the 359,310,820 contracts traded the previous May.

BOX Options Exchange Price Improvement Activity For May

Date 01/06/2012

In the month of May, price improved contracts on BOX Options Exchange (“BOX”) averaged 269,556 per day.  Price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via BOX’s price improvement auction (“PIP”) averaged $176,747 per day, while total savings to investors this month were $3.9 MM. With this, BOX has saved investors over $388 MM since its inception in 2004. Overall average daily trading volume on BOX in the month of May was 696,471 contracts, which represented a 62% increase over the same period last year.

KCBT HRW Wheat Futures & Options Open Interest Increases Over Last Month

Date 01/06/2012

The Kansas City Board of Trade during the month of May saw increases in open interest in both the HRW wheat futures and wheat options contracts compared to last month.

MGEX Reports May Volume; Impressive Gains In Options Volume

Date 01/06/2012

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, today announced May futures and options volume for its flagship Hard Red Spring Wheat (HRSW) contract, including a dramatic increase in options volume. When compared to the previous month, options volume increased by a staggering 228 percent and marked a yearover-year increase of 36 percent. A total of 87,882 futures and options contracts traded on the Exchange in May with futures trades accounting for 85,536 contracts.  

TOM MTF Statistics Week 22 2012

Date 01/06/2012

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 22 - 2012.