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Date 28/11/2000

Sydney Futures Exchange: Growth In Futures Trading

The number of contracts traded at the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) in 1999-2000 rose by 4.3% to 31.27 million futures and options contracts, according to the 2000 Australian Financial Markets Report (AFMR) published today. AFMR shows that futures turnover grew by 4.1% and options turnover by 7.1%. The total value of trading at SFE in 1999-2000 amounted to A$10,309 billion, a 1.3% increase on the previous year.
Date 28/11/2000

Euronext Amsterdam: Hal Trust New Entry In Next 150 Index

Euronext Indices B.V. today announced that following the official result of the takeover bid by Nine Telecom Reseau for French company Jet Multimedia, Jet Multimedia will be deleted from the Next 150 index with effect from 30 November 2000, in accordance with rule 6.3.3 of the index ground rules.
Date 27/11/2000

The Nasdaq Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks For November 2000

As of mid-November, short interest in 3,866 Nasdaq National Market® securities totaled 3,331,693,195 compared with 3,330,417,900 shares in 3,863 National Market issues for the month of October.
Date 27/11/2000

NOREX Alliance Adopts New Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS)

OM Stockholm Exchange, Oslo Bors, Copenhagen Stock Exchange and MSCI are pleased to announce that the exchanges will adopt a new industry classification, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) developed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's.
Date 27/11/2000

New Software Vendors Connect To SFE's Trading Interface

The ability of the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) to distribute its trading products to customers around the world has been enhanced by the recent certification of two independent software vendors (ISV).

Date 27/11/2000

Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking StockSM Tops $20 Billion in Assets

The Nasdaq Stock Market® reported today that total assets in the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking StockSM (Amex: QQQ) rose to a record level of over $20.4 billion as of Friday’s close.
Date 27/11/2000

NASD Names Sal Sodano Vice Chairman

The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), announced today that Salvatore F. Sodano has been appointed Vice Chairman of the association, effective November 1, 2000. Sodano will also continue in his role as chairman and CEO of The American Stock Exchange LLC (Amex®).
Date 27/11/2000

KLSE Focused Efforts To Meet Investor Requirements

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) will continue to meet present and longer term requirements of investors. KLSE Executive Chairman Dato’ Mohd Azlan Hashim said KLSE aims to meet investor requirements through promoting informed investing and enhancing industry development, industry consolidation and enforcement.
Date 27/11/2000

EEX To Launch Electricity Indices - First Index Family Of A German Energy Exchange

The first electricity indices in Germany based on exchange-traded prices will be launched on December 11. The European Energy Exchange (EEX) made the announcement on Monday. The indices measure the development in the electricity price at EEX and will be calculated for base-load and peak-load blocks on a daily and monthly basis.
Date 27/11/2000

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Receives Regulatory Approval To Increase Customer Access Via Electronic Trading

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has been notified that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved a number of measures to increase customer access to CME markets via electronic trading. CME’s Board approved these measures on Aug. 30.