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  • Share And IWF Changes In S&P Japan 500 And S&P Japan SmallCap 250 Indices

    Date 20/02/2007

    Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan 500 and S&P Japan SmallCap 250 Indices effective after the close of trading Tuesday, February 27 2007: Shochiku Co Ltd(Japan, SEDOL: 6805362, GICS: Consumer Discretionary, GICS Code: 25401030) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by Sojitz Corp (Japan, SEDOL: 6594143, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20107010) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap250 and S&P Japan 500 ind

  • CBOE Seat Price Reaches New Milestone, Sale Today Tops $2 Million For First Time In CBOE History

    Date 20/02/2007

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that a CBOE seat, or membership, traded on Tuesday, February 20th for $2,050,000, a new all-time high at CBOE and the first time in CBOE history that a CBOE seat was sold for more than $2 million.

  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading Five New Quarterly Option Listings On Wednesday, February 21

    Date 20/02/2007

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin to list and trade option series that expire at the close of business on the last business day of a calendar quarter (“Quarterly Options Series”) on a pilot basis, beginning February 21, 2007. The following two options were allocated to Citadel Derivatives Trading Group LLC:

  • FCStone To Serve As Market Maker For CBOT Ethanol Contract

    Date 20/02/2007

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that FCStone has become an electronic market maker for the CBOT’s Ethanol futures contract. FCStone will provide liquidity and continuous two-sided markets for the Ethanol futures trading on the CBOT’s electronic trading platform.

  • Higher Liquidity Standards Introduced To FTSE Indexes

    Date 20/02/2007

    Leading index provider FTSE Group (“FTSE”), will apply new enhanced liquidity measures at the next FTSE Asia Pacific ex Japan index review on 27th March 2007. The new rule will raise the liquidity hurdle for inclusion in FTSE indices, giving investors more accurate representation of investability by using median daily, rather than average monthly, trading volume as a screen.