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Date 26/03/2001

CBOT To Host Crop Report Press Briefing March 30

On Friday, March 30, the Chicago Board of Trade will conduct another in its series of crop report briefings for the media and members following release of the critically important Prospective Plantings report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The briefing, presented by the Communications Department, will be conducted on the agricultural trading floor apron, starting at 8:15 a.m. (Chicago time.)
Date 24/03/2001

Standard & Poor's – Index Change: S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector Index

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Monday, March 26, 2001, the following change will take place in the S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector Index.
Date 23/03/2001

PCX Equities Floors Pass Into History

The Pacific Exchange (PCX) announced that it has finalized a schedule for the migration of its equities trading operations to the Archipelago Exchange, the first fully electronic, open national stock market in the U.S. The transition began in March 2000, when the PCX announced that Archipelago would become a regulated facility of the Exchange and provide the technology platform for PCX members to trade listed and Nasdaq stocks. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to approve
Date 23/03/2001

Nymex Announces Eurotop Margin Decreases

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will lower the margins on its FTSE Eurotop 100 and 300® futures contracts as of the close of business today. Margins on the Eurotop 100® contracts will be lowered to $8,000 from $11,000 and margins on the Eurotop 300® futures contracts will be lowered to $6,500 from $9,000.
Date 23/03/2001

NYBOT Reminder Of Change To Coffee Differential

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT®) announced the Reduction of Peruvian Discount: As a reminder, effective March 1, 2000 for the July 2001 and all subsequent delivery months, the discount applied to Peruvian Coffee deliverable under the Coffee “C” contract became 100 points.

Date 23/03/2001

New participant On SWX: B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Frankfurt

The SWX Swiss Exchange has accepted B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Frankfurt, as a participant. The new participant will commence trading activities on the SWX platform on Monday, 26 March 2001.
Date 23/03/2001

Nasdaq Modifies Clearly Erroneous Transactions Procedures

The Nasdaq Stock Market® announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an amendment to a National Association of Securities Dealer’s (NASD®) rule to provide senior Nasdaq® officers with the authority in extraordinary circumstances to extend the 30 minute deadline for broker/dealers to notify Nasdaq that a transaction is "clearly erroneous."
Date 23/03/2001

London Stock Exchange Announces Management Restructure

Clara Furse, Chief Executive at the London Stock Exchange today announced a reorganisation of the Exchange's management structure. The changes are designed to focus high level resource on strategic development, and further strengthen the Exchange's marketing and communications drive. This underlines the Exchange's commitment to build and expand its international business by developing its customer services and infrastructure.
Date 23/03/2001

Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For February 2001

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 1380.3 points at the end of February, an increase of 40.5 points from the closing value at the end of January.
Date 23/03/2001

HKEx GEM Conference At Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science Park

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will organise a conference aimed at providing potential Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) listing candidates in Mainland China with a greater understanding of the requirements for listing on GEM in Hong Kong. The conference will be held in Beijing on 30 March. About 100 companies from Zhongguancun selected by the Beijing Municipal Government and the Ministry of Science and Technology will attend the conference. The news media are cordially invited