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CBOE Seat Sells For New Record Of 1.25 Million Dollars

Date 17/04/2006

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that a seat, or membership, was bought today at a price of $1,250,000. This is a new record seat price at CBOE, surpassing the previous high of $1,150,000, set on March 24, 2006. Today's seat sale was the twenty-sixth of the year and the thirteenth seat that was sold for at least one million dollars during 2006. The high seat sale for 2005 was $875,000.
CBOE Futures Exchange Open Interest Reaches New Milestone - Tops 30,000 Contracts For The First Time

Date 17/04/2006

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) announced today that total exchange open interest stood at 31,433 contracts at the close of trading on Wednesday, April 12. This marked the first time ever that open interest has surpassed the 30,000-contract level at CFE. Open interest in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index, "VIX," also reached a new high on Wednesday, April 12 of 29,921 contracts. Open interest refers to the number of outstanding contracts in the exchange market or in a particular contract
Bursa Malaysia Aims To Launch Single Stock Futures On 28 April 2006

Date 17/04/2006

Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia) is targeting to launch the first tranche of Single Stock Futures (SSFs) on 28 April 2006. The initial ten SSFs to begin trading on launch day are: No. Short Name
Warsaw SE Main Indices Set New Closing High

Date 13/04/2006

The Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG, all share index, closed at a new high of 42018,42 points. The previous closing high was 41823,15 on April 7, 2006.
TSX Group Announces FIX Gateway Is In Production

Date 13/04/2006

TSX Group Inc. announced that the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) gateway is in production and the testing and certification process for Participating Organizations has begun. “We see this as an important step in the evolution of trading on Toronto Stock Exchange,” said Robert Fotheringham, Vice-President of Trading, TSX Group.

Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 13/04/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday April 13, 2006: Corridor Resources Inc. (TSXVN:CDH) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on the TSX under the same ticker symbol.
SEC Announces Sixteenth Annual International Institute

Date 13/04/2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission will conduct its 16th annual international Institute for Securities Market Development beginning Monday, April 17, 2006. The two-week, senior-level program is the SEC's flagship global training program. It provides a wide ranging group of participants from countries with emerging markets an opportunity to discuss the core principles of securities regulation and features lectures, panels and workshops that focus on the development, operation and regulation o
Richard Wessel, District Administrator Of The SEC's Atlanta District Office, To Retire

Date 13/04/2006

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Richard Wessel, the District Administrator of the SEC's Atlanta District Office (ADO) for the past 19 years, intends to retire at the end of June.
Program Trading Averaged 59.9 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Apr. 3-7

Date 13/04/2006

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Apr. 3-7.
NYBOT Announces New Orleans Coffee Warehouse Action

Date 13/04/2006

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®), the world’s leading “soft” commodity exchange, announced today that under the procedures and standards announced on February 10, 2006, for assessing the deliverable status of certified coffee stored in any store whose license was suspended as of that date, the NYBOT Executive Committee has today restored the deliverable status of certified coffee stored in Dupuy Store 2.