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CBOT Launches New Gold Options On Futures Contracts - Exchange’s Gold Complex Accounted For 23 Percent Of Listed Gold Futures Traded In North America In February2006

Date 03/03/2006

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced the launch of its new CBOT 100 Ounce Gold futures options contract. The new contract trades exclusively on the Exchange’s electronic trading platform – e-cbot®, powered by LIFFE CONNECT®.
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Options Continue Strong Pace - More Than 17,000 Contracts Traded Thursday

Date 03/03/2006

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that volume in the newly launched options on the CBOE Volatility Index, "VIX" (options ticker symbol VIX), totaled 17,846 cleared contracts (15,156 calls and 2,690 puts) on Thursday, March 2nd.
BCBS Consultion Document On Home-Host Information Sharing For Effective Basel II Implementation - A Response By BBA, ISDA And LIBA

Date 03/03/2006

Click here to download a consultative document on home-host information sharing for effective Basel II implementation.
Archipelago Holdings, Inc. Completes Sale Of Wave Securities - Wave Securities And Archipelago Brokerage Services Deals Completed In Advance Of NYSE/Archipelago Merger

Date 03/03/2006

Archipelago Holdings, Inc. (PCX: AX), the owner and operator of the Archipelago Exchange(R) (ArcaEx(R)), today announced the company has completed the sale of Wave Securities LLC, its wholly owned introducing broker subsidiary, to Merrill Lynch, Fenner & Smith Inc. (NYSE: MER).
UK’s Financial Services Authority Bars Nine Small Firms From Doing Regulated Business

Date 02/03/2006

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has barred nine small firms from carrying out regulated business after they failed to provide any data to enable the regulator to monitor their activities. Firms supply this information in their compulsory Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR). This is the first time the regulator has taken enforcement action against intermediaries for non-submission of the RMAR.

Trading Volumes On The Spanish Exchange Was € 83.35 Bn, 26% Up On The Year

Date 02/03/2006

Trading volume in new issues on AIAF was € 43.25 bn, a record monthly figure that exceeds that posted in February 2005 by 47.6%.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Number Of Orders And Executions

Date 02/03/2006

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Sydney Futures Exchange Experiences Record Electricity Volumes and Open Interest

Date 02/03/2006

Sydney Futures Exchange experienced record monthly trading volume and month end open interest levels in the d-cypha SFE electricity futures and options products during February 2006. A total of 3,694 contracts were traded and month end open interest was 16,963 contracts. This surpasses the previous trading volume of 2,835 contracts and the month end open interest of 15,846 in May 2005 and December 2005, respectively.
STAR Conference 2006 - 95 Investment Houses – Of Which More Than Half Are Foreign – Meet 66 Companies Over 700 One-On-One Meetings

Date 02/03/2006

The STAR companies meet the Italian and international financial community on Wednesday and Thursday 1/2 March in Milan, at the FMCCenter (Milan Fair/Porta Gattamelata).
Share Trading On The Copenhagen Stock Exchange Up 40 Per Cent In February Compared With February 2005

Date 02/03/2006

In February, share trading amounted to DKK 83.9 billion, which was almost 40 per cent ahead of the year-ago month, when share trading totalled DKK 60.1 billion. The value of average daily trading was DKK 4.2 billion, distributed on 19,723 trades. February saw the first two listings of the year. In the first two months of the year alone, 28 new corporate bonds were listed, which means that the trend from 2005 continues.