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  • CBOE Volume Increases 15% In February - CBOE Futures Exchange Volume Up 80%, Sets New Monthly Trading Record

    Date 01/03/2005

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that February volume increased 15% over February 2004 volume, climbing to a total of 31,553,430 contracts traded. Index options volume at CBOE continued to post impressive growth, as February volume, driven by strong activity in several benchmark indexes, rose 33% over February 2004 volume to 11,582,971 contracts.

  • CBOE To Move Forward With Purchase Offer For CBOT Exercise Rights

    Date 01/03/2005

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange today announced it will move forward with plans to purchase a number of CBOE exercise rights held by Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Full Members. The planned purchase offer was temporarily postponed while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reviewed a challenge to the CBOE's filing on the matter. On February 25, 2005, the SEC issued an order denying the challenge and approving the rule filing.

  • Boston Options Exchange Sets New Monthly Market Share Record

    Date 01/03/2005

    BOX market share (as a percentage of the OCC volume in the classes it lists) was 5.9% for the month, an improvement over the previous month's 5.6%, and a new record for BOX. For more details, click here.

  • Bolsas y Mercados Españoles Trades Over € 150 Bn In February

    Date 01/03/2005

    In February trading in equities on the Spanish market through SIBE reached € 65.94 bn, 36.4% up on the same month in 2004.

  • BEL 20® Index - New Divisors

    Date 01/03/2005

    Following the announced modification of the BEL 20® Index, the current divisors have to be replaced by the new divisors as published below from Wednesday 2 March 2005 onwards: