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Date 12/08/2002

CBOE Schedule For Labor Day Holiday

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced the following trading schedule in observance of the Labor Day holiday: Friday, August 30: CBOE interest rate option products will close at 12:00 Noon CDT (Chicago time). Regular trading hours will be in effect for all other CBOE products. Monday, September 2: CBOE will be closed.
Date 12/08/2002

Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Weakness continued as the week's most active stock, Sechaba, plunged 40t or 5.4% to P7.00 on over 1.5 million shares on the back of renewed foreign selling. The stock is looking cheap at these levels on a historic PER of 8x and yield of 11.6%.
Date 12/08/2002

ASX Rules Encourage Venture Capitalists

ASX has further demonstrated its commitment to fostering the development of emerging growth industries in Australia by changing its rules on securities issued to pre-float investors.
Date 09/08/2002

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P Canadian Indices

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index change effective after the close of business on Monday, August 12, 2002: The relative weight of BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) will increase by approximately 0.40% in the S&P/TSX Composite and S&P/TSX Capped Composite, 0.52% in the S&P/TSX 60 and S&P/TSX 60 Capped and 0.45% in the TSX 100 Indices. The relative weight change reflects an adjustment to the float shares of the company pursuant to the buyback of a stake in Bell Ca
Date 09/08/2002

Removal Of Surongo From Euronext Brussels Indices

Following the take-over swap by the Company "Compagnie Mobilière et Foncière du Bois Sauvage SA", the share Surongo (Isincode BE0003527356) will be removed from the following indices on 2002/08/09 after close following art. 1.4.b. of the BAS indexrules: BAS price index BAS return index Small Cap return index Investment Companies return index Financials return index

Date 09/08/2002

Instinet Announces July 2002 U.S. Equity Share Volume And Market Share

Instinet Group Incorporated (Nasdaq: INET) announced today that its U.S. equity share volume in July 2002 totaled 10,320 million shares. This compares to 6,946 million shares in June 2002 and 5,798 million shares in July 2001.
Date 09/08/2002

Enhancements To The SFE Block Trade Facility - Trading News Update August 2002

On Friday, 30 August 2002 a series of enhancements to SFE's Block Trade Facility (BTF) will become effective, subject to regulatory disallowance. The BTF is an 'off-market' trading mechanism available for selected SFE products. It offers much of the flexibility and certainty of an over-the-counter (OTC) market, plus the counterparty guarantee and integrity of an exchange market. The BTF enables professional market users to arrange and transact orders of significant size, tailored
Date 09/08/2002

CME Sets Fifth Exchange-Wide Open Interest Record And Euro FX Options Also Set Five Consecutive Records

For five consecutive sessions, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has posted exchange-wide open interest records, beginning on Aug. 2 with 18,989,272 positions and reaching 19,607,853 positions yesterday, Aug. 8. The most recent previous record was on Aug. 7 at 19,449,906 positions.
Date 09/08/2002

CBOT: 10-Year T-Note Open Interest Tops Million Contracts For 1st Time

Topping the 1 million mark in open interest for the first time in its 20-year history, the Chicago Board of Trade's 10-Year Treasury note futures contract set a new open interest record at 1,002,572 contracts on August 7, 2002. The old record at 990,811 was established on August 2, 2002.
Date 09/08/2002

CBOT Fed Watch

In advance of next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on August 13, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.