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Date 10/06/2000

Baltic Stock Exchanges Monthly Statistics

May was a month of boosting trading volumes in the Latvian capital market. Total turnover amounted to EUR 105.61 million, equity turnover contributing EUR 30.44 million and debt trading - EUR 75.15 million. The increase of traded equity volumes was largely due to several block trades with Ventspils nafta and Latvijas Unibanka shares. The two companies were the market leaders as to turnover - LVL 9.54 million and LVL 6.73 million respectively. Equity market capitalisation at the end of the month
Date 09/06/2000

Warsaw Stock Exchange - Elektrim To Join The SiTech Segment

Today Elektrim joins SiTech - the Warsaw Stock Exchange Segment for Innovative Technologies.
Date 09/06/2000

Transfer Of Last Tranche Of ASAS Securities TO NIEC

This announcement provides further information on the process for integrating ASAS/Nominee with Amsterdam Exchanges' securities clearing section and Necigef following the phases carried out in February and May.
Date 09/06/2000

Three Companies Join Roster Of NYSE-Listed Stocks

In the week ended June 9, BASF AG, Rio Algom Limited and Community Health Systems, Inc. joined the ranks of New York Stock Exchange-listed companies.
Date 09/06/2000

SAXESS Conversion Training Programme

In October 2000, bonds listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange will be transferred to the SAXESS trading system. In the autumn the Exchange offers to train brokers in the new trading system.

Date 09/06/2000

PHLX Continues To Post Record- Breaking Options And Equity Volume

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that equity volume for the month of May 2000 reached a record 166,067,547 shares traded, a 15% increase over May 1999 when 143,923,060 shares changed hands. Year to date equity volume surpassed 1 billion shares traded, a 36% increase over the first five months of 1999 when approximately 766 million shares changed hands.
Date 09/06/2000

European Financial Markets Convention

The Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE) for the first time ever is holding its general assembly and accompanying conference in Switzerland. Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter, Chief Executive of the SWX Swiss Exchange, on Thursday welcomed to Lucerne the more than 200 people attending the convention.
Date 09/06/2000

Eurex Launches Option On Givaudan - Equity Options On New SMI Stock

Eurex, the European derivatives market, is launching equity options on Givaudan on June 19, 2000. Givaudan is a spinoff of the Swiss company Roche and has been traded at SWX since June 8. The company was included in SMI, the SWX blue-chip index, on the same date. Starting on June 19, it will also be possible to trade options and futures on the Neuer Markt blue-chip index, the Nemax 50.
Date 09/06/2000

CME's E-mini Equity Index Contracts Set New Open Interest Records

Open interest in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) E-mini S&P 500 Stock Price Index and E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures contracts both rose to record levels on June 7.
Date 09/06/2000

CME, CBOT Respond To Commodity Exchange Act Legislation Introduced By Lugar

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) issued the following statement in response to the introduction today of Senator Richard Lugar's (R-IN) bill, S. 2697, amending the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA):