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Date 29/11/2000

Preliminary Rules Governing Future Indices On The Copenhagen Stock Exchange

Last Monday, the Exchange published the guidelines for the coming industry classification of the equity market and for the coming benchmark index.
Date 29/11/2000

Philadelphia Stock Exchange to Begin Trading Five New Options

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin trading put and call options on Alcatel SA -ADR (option /stock symbol: ALA); Bear Stearns Companies Inc.; (option/stock symbol BSC), Sybase Inc.; (option/stock symbol: SBQ/SYBS); Valence Technology Inc. (option/stock symbol VHQ/VLNC) and Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (option/stock symbol VSH) upon the opening of business on Friday, December 1, 2000.
Date 29/11/2000

NYSE Announces Third-Quarter 2000 Financial Results

The New York Stock Exchange reported revenues of $606.6 million and net income of $73.1 million in the first nine months of 2000, as compared with $551.2 million and $76.0 million in the same period a year ago.
Date 29/11/2000

Nymex To Increase Natural Gas Margins

The New York Mercantile Exchange will raise the margins on its Henry Hub natural gas contract at the close of business tomorrow to $7,500 from $6,500 for clearing members; $8,250 from $7,150 for members; and $10,125 from $8,775 for customers.
Date 29/11/2000

Nasdaq Experiences System Interruption Prior To Close

The Nasdaq Stock Market® today said that at about 3:40 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), the Nasdaq quote engine failed to allow Market Makers to update and view quotes. In response to this, Nasdaq suspended the Small Order Execution System (SOES) and SelectNet at about 3:49 p.m. The Nasdaq quote engine was restored incrementally just before 4:00 p.m., so most Market Makers were not able to view and update quotes until shortly after the market closed. The cause of the quote outage is currently under inves

Date 29/11/2000

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange T+3 Begins Wednesday 20 December 2000

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), in consultation with the Securities Commission has set Wednesday, 20 December 2000 to begin the T+3 delivery and settlement period.
Date 29/11/2000

HKSCC Registrars’ Name Changed To Hong Kong Registrars

The name of HKSCC Registrars Limited has been changed to Hong Kong Registrars Limited.
Date 29/11/2000

CME Nasdaq 100, E-mini Nasdaq 100 Futures Set Open Interest Records

Open interest in Nasdaq 100 Index and E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. rose to new highs on a volatile trading day yesterday, totaling 48,698 in the standard-sized contract and 69,550 in the E-mini version.
Date 29/11/2000

CBOT Approved Revisions to Corn, Soybean Futures

The Chicago Board of Trade Board of Directors and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have approved the following changes in regulations regarding corn and soybean futures:
Date 28/11/2000

World First Wine Market To Trade Through Newcastle Stock Exchange

The Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited (NSX) has reached an in principle agreement with the Australian Wine Exchange Pty Ltd (AWX) for the trading of AWX listed wine securities.