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Axiss Australia a2a Newsletter Issue 123, 24 October 2005

Date 24/10/2005

Please click here for the latest a2a e-mail newsletter produced by Axiss Australia - a summary of the key events of the past fortnight shaping Australia's position as a global financial services centre in the Asian time zone.<
Archipelago Announces Third Quarter 2005 Results

Date 24/10/2005

Archipelago Holdings, Inc. (PCX: AX), owner and operator of the Archipelago Exchange(R) (ArcaEx(R)), the nation's first totally open, all-electronic stock exchange, reported net income of $7.8 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2005, up from the $3.0 million net income, or $0.06 per diluted share, recorded in the second quarter of 2005.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Free-Float Weight

Date 21/10/2005

1. Outline Free-Float Weight (FFW) is a weight of listed shares deemed to be available for trading in the market. FFW is determined and calculated by TSE for each listed company for use in index calculation. FFW figures range from 0.00 to 1.00 and the split-point is 0.01. FFW of company A may be different from that of company B.
Tokyo Financial Exchange: Trading of Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Transactions Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on 28 October 2005

Date 21/10/2005

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Transactions (except for Exchange Forex Margin Transactions) on 28 October 2005, responding to the releases as follows:
Tokyo Financial Exchange: Rollover Of Leading Contract Month For Three-Month Euroyen Futures - Effective From October 20, 2005

Date 21/10/2005

TFX has decided to shift the leading contract month for Euroyen futures from the current September 2006 contracts to the December 2006 contracts, effective from October 20, 2005.

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 21/10/2005

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, October 21, 2005: Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSXVN:SVM) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on the TSX under the same ticker symbol. The CUSIP number is 82835P 10 3.
Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P Japan SmallCap 250, S&P Japan MidCap100, S&P/TOPIX 150 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 21/10/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250, S&P Japan MidCap100, S&P/TOPIX 150 and S&P Japan 500 indices effective after the close of trading Friday, October 28th 2005: Makino Milling Machine Co Ltd (Japan, SEDOL: 6555708, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20106020) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 6,125,989 to 100,127,977 due to the exercise of convertible bonds. Mazda Motor Corp (Ja
Nymex Seat Trades at All Time Futures Industry Record

Date 21/10/2005

A seat on the NYMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., sold today for a record $3.1 million, the most ever for a seat on any futures exchange.
Nymex Announces Procedures for the Transition of the NYMEX miNY<SUP>TM</SUP> Futures Contracts to NYMEX ClearPort®

Date 21/10/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will transition its NYMEX miNYTM crude oil and natural gas futures contracts to NYMEX ClearPort® from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Globex® electronic trading system on Sunday, November 20 for the trade date of November 21.
Nymex Announces Copper Futures Annual Volume Record

Date 21/10/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that its copper futures contracts set an annual volume record.