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Date 04/02/2000

CBOT Fed Funds Contract Sets New Volume Record, Year To-Date Volume Up 36% From Last Year

The Chicago Board of Trade announced today that CBOT members set a new daily volume record in the 30-day Federal Funds futures contract yesterday, trading 18,887 contracts. The record was set on the same day as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, at which the target Federal Funds interest rate is determined for the cash market.
Date 03/02/2000

Top Buyside Equity Trader Wendy Beaver Joins Nasdaq-Amex As A Consultant

The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), today announced the addition of Wendy Beaver as a consultant to Nasdaq-Amex Global Sales and Member Affairs, effective February 17, 1999.
Date 03/02/2000

Sydney To Host Environmental Markets Conference

An international forum aimed at spurring the development of commercial markets for the environmental benefits provided by forests will be held in Sydney in April.
Date 03/02/2000

Program Trading Averaged 21.1 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Jan. 18-21

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 Jan. 18-21. This included program trading associated with the Jan. 21 monthly expiration of stock-index options and futures.
Date 03/02/2000

Overseas Institutional Investors Contribute 30 Per Cent Of Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Turnover

The Stock Exchange's latest Members Transaction Survey shows that the contribution of local individual trading increased slightly from 41 per cent in 1998 to 45 per cent in 1999 and remained the largest component of total market turnover.

Date 03/02/2000

Oslo Stock Exchange Monthly Report: January Trading Record

Whether measured in number of trades or in kroner, activity in the stock market has never been as high as in January. Trading in the derivatives market was also unprecedented. The all-share index, which recorded unusually wide day-to-day fluctuations, dropped 2.1 per cent.
Date 03/02/2000

NEWEX® (New Europe Exchange): The Quality Market For Central And East European Securities - New Exchange To Be Launched In Autumn - Efficient Trading And Financing Platform In The Euro Zone - Same Degree Of Transparency And Liquidity As On Neuer Markt

"NEWEX will become a significant, liquid and transparent quality market for Central and East European securities." This statement was made by NEWEX Management Board member Erich Obersteiner on Thursday, 3 February 2000 at a press conference held in Frankfurt to present the new exchange that Deutsche Börse and Wiener Börse are in the process of jointly establishing. The market is planned to go live in autumn 2000, the acquisition of new market participants and issuers is about to start. The new e
Date 03/02/2000

LIFFE's Euribor Futures And Options Set New Records In January 2000

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) traded an average daily nominal value of £219 billion (343 billion) in January 2000, up 117% on December 1999 and up 11% on the average daily nominal value for 1999 as a whole. This means LIFFE maintained its position as Europe's largest exchange by value.
Date 03/02/2000

Bulletin Release From The Palestine Securities Exchange

An exchange agreement of representation was coordinated between Sahem Trading & Investment Company, a member brokerage firm registered in Palestine, and United Investment Financial Company of Jordan. The aim of such agreement is the mutual representation of brokering services offered to clients of both companies in the markets they serve. These services include investment and consultation assistance concerning securities listed in both markets.
Date 03/02/2000

Amsterdam Exchanges Makes Flying Start To Millennium

The record for the number of securities transactions on one day was broken on the new millennium's very first day of trading. The number of securities transactions on 3 January 2000 was 174,000, smashing the previous record of 136,000 transactions set on 7 January 1999. The total number of securities transactions in January ultimately exceeded 2.2 million, an all time high and an increase of 52.8% compared with the same period last year. Share turnover also rose sharply by almost 50%. Amsterdam