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Eurex US Martin Luther King Jr. Day Trading Schedule

Date 11/01/2005

Eurex US has established the following trading schedule in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

Dexia, KBC Join BondVision As Volumes Hit Fresh Record

Date 11/01/2005

BondVision, the B2C (Business-to-Consumer) arm of the MTS Group, is pleased to announce that Dexia Bank and KBC Bank, both leading financial institutions in Europe and particularly in Belgium, have joined its consortium of dealer participants effective today.

CME Eurodollar Futures Set New Open Interest Record

Date 11/01/2005

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, set a new open interest record yesterday for the world’s most actively traded futures contract, CME Eurodollar futures. Open interest of 7,081,570 broke the previous record of 7,066,935 set on December 9, 2004. Open interest reflects the total number of contracts that have not yet been offset or fulfilled for delivery.

Closure Of Bursa Malaysia Berhad - Market Holiday

Date 11/01/2005

Bursa Malaysia Berhad would like to announce that the office of Bursa Malaysia Berhad Group would be closed as follows: Date Public Holiday

Changes For Calsonic Kansei Corp In S&P Japan Smallcap 250 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 11/01/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 Indices effective after the close of trading, Tuesday January 18th 2005: Calsonic Kansei Corp (Japan, SEDOL: 6639840, GICS: Consumer Discretionary, GICS Code: 25101010) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 52,000,000 to 269,056,816 due to its private placement.

CBOT Receives Top Honor From Industry-Leading Magazine - Risk Magazine Names CBOT Derivatives Exchange Of The Year

Date 11/01/2005

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that as a result of its multiple successful initiatives in 2004 that created industry-wide efficiencies and the Exchange’s subsequent third consecutive year of record volume, the CBOT has been named Derivatives Exchange of the Year by Risk magazine, which is owned by Incisive Media.

Bovespanews - Monthly Bulletin - December 2004

Date 11/01/2005

Click here to download Bovespa's monthly bulletin for December 2004.

Boston Options Exhange First Day Volume In Spider Options

Date 11/01/2005

On the first day of trading of options on the Standard & Poor's Depository Receipts ("Spiders"), there were 71,971 contracts traded on BOX, an estimated 30% of the overall volume across the six US options exchanges.

Archipelago Exchange(SM) (ArcaEx(R)) Announces Dual Listing Of AIG - Leading Advocate For Marketplace Fairness And Transparency Selects Fully Electronic And Totally Open Arcaex For Dual Listing

Date 11/01/2005

The Archipelago Exchange(SM) (ArcaEx(R)), the world's largest fully-electronic stock exchange, today announced that American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has dually listed on ArcaEx, a facility of the Pacific Exchange.

ArcaEx Releases December 2004 Transaction Volume Data

Date 11/01/2005

Archipelago Holdings, Inc. (PCX: AX) today announced its December 2004 market transaction volume data for the Archipelago Exchange ("ArcaEx"). Specifically, in NYSE - listed equity securities, ArcaEx's total trading market share was 2.3% in December 2004, up from 1.2% in December 2003 and down slightly from 2.4% in November 2004. In AMEX-listed equity securities, ArcaEx's total trading market share was 23.2% in December 2004, up from 14.4% in December 2003 and down from 25.9% i