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MGEX Opens Fiscal Year With Record Trading Volume, Open Interest

Date 01/10/2007

With wheat prices across the board at all-time contract highs, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (“MGEX” or “Exchange”) followed the record trend by closing the first month of its new fiscal year with record spring wheat volume. Trading volume for Hard Red Spring Wheat futures set an all-time high for September with 157,797 contracts versus the previous September record of 151,226 contracts set in 2002. Volume this September was also 74-percent higher than last year’s spring wheat volume of 90,4

Henry Schein, Inc. To Join The NASDAQ-100 Index Beginning October 2, 2007

Date 01/10/2007

Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq:HSIC) of Melville, New York, will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index(r) (Nasdaq:NDX) and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) prior to market open on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. Henry Schein, Inc. will replace Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:

CME Group Reports September 2007 Volume Averaged 11.6 Million Contracts Per Day, Up 25 Percent - Third-Quarter 2007 Volume Averaged A Record 12.7 Million Contracts Per Day, Up 49 Percent, Assuming Combined CME/CBOT Volumes For Entire Quarter

Date 01/10/2007

Record quarterly E-mini equity index volume was up 83 percent; record quarterly foreign exchange volume was up 50 percent; and record quarterly interest rate volume was up 43 percent Record quarterly total options volume was up 37 percent to average 2.4 million contracts per day; total Eurodollar options averaged a record 1.6 million contracts per day and electronic Eurodollar options averaged a record 141,000 contracts per day Quarterly volume for NYMEX energy and metals pro

International Securities Exchange Reports Monthly Volume For September 2007 - Average Daily Volume Of 3.0 Million Contracts

Date 01/10/2007

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) today reported that average daily trading volume for equity and index options contracts for September 2007 increased 27.9% to 3.0 million contracts as compared to 2.4 million contracts during the same period in 2006. Total equity and index options volume for the month increased 21.5% to 57.4 million contracts from 47.3 million contracts in the same year-ago period.

OMX: September - Record In Fixed-income Derivatives

Date 01/10/2007

A new all-time high in Fixed-income derivatives trading was set in September. The average daily trading volume was 136,948 contracts. (previous record: 123,701 contracts per day in June, 2007). The value of average daily share trading increased by 25% compared to the same month last year and the average number of trades per day increased by 60%. The ETF and Unit trust products have fast growing volumes, in September the trading volumes were EUR 208 millions per day compared

The Spanish Stock Exchange Traded € 1.23 Trillion To September, 7% Over The Entire 2006 Figure

Date 01/10/2007

In September equity turnover on SIBE came in at € 107.98 bn, 5.7% up on the year. MEFF traded 6,933,233 contracts in September, 29% on the same month last year. Highlights include Mini IBEX Futures, at 243,251 contracts and stock options, at 1,270,688 contracts, posting year on year increases of 108% and 49% respectively. The trading volume on AIAF in September came in at € 82.36 bn, a 27.3% increase on the same period last year.

C-Com Welcomed The Rubber Research Institute Of Thailand (RRIT)

Date 01/10/2007

A mission of the Rubber Research Institute of Thailand (RRIT) consisting of four delegates paid their first visit to C-Com on September 19. During their five days stay in Japan, the mission visited various places including ports, warehouses and exchanges in order to study storage management, port facilities, and natural rubber transactions in Japan. At C-Com, after the RRIT and C-Com briefly introduced each other, the Exc

Speech By The UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, At “Financial Stability And The Challenges Of Globalisation For The UK” With Dr Alan Greenspan And The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Given At Reuters, Canary Wharf

Date 01/10/2007

After nearly twenty years as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, steering the American economy through international challenges of the past, Alan Greenspan has a unique insight into the international challenges of the present.

NYSE Euronext Announces The Appointment Of Bruno Colmant As Head Of Euronext Brussels

Date 01/10/2007

NYSE Euronext today announced that Mr. Bruno Colmant has been appointed as head of Euronext Brussels, member of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V. and member of the Management Committee of NYSE Euronext. This appointment, which follows the decision of Euronext N.V.’s Supervisory Board as well as the respective non-objections of the CBFA as concerns Euronext Brussels, and, as concerns Euronext N.V. and NYSE Euronext's positions, of Euronext N.V.’s College of Regulators and of the Dutch Finan

FTSE/JSE Awards Licences For FTSE/JSE RAFI 40, A New Fundamental Weighted Index

Date 01/10/2007

Global index provider, FTSE Group (FTSE), and the JSE, Africa’s premier exchange, today launched a new fundamentally weighted index, entitled FTSE/JSE RAFI 40, which will extend the FTSE/JSE Africa index range and create new investment opportunities. FTSE holds the exclusive rights to calculate and license the FTSE RAFI Index Series and is working in collaboration with the JSE to bring this exciting index to South Africa.