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Nymex To Decrease Margins On Alluminum Futres Contracts

Date 17/08/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will decrease the margins on its aluminum futures contract at the close of business tomorrow.
Nymex Announces Margins For Natural Gas Index And Swing Swap Futures Contracts

Date 17/08/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today proposed margins for the monthly natural gas index and daily swing swap futures contracts it will launch at 7 PM on August 22 for the August 23 trading session.
Minneapolis Grain Exchange Announces Electronic Trading Hosting Arrangement With Chicago Board Of Trade

Date 17/08/2004

The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) announced today that the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will host electronic trading of MGEX's financially settled agricultural futures and options on e-cbot(R) powered by LIFFE CONNECT(R). The tentative launch date for the products under this new arrangement is December 2004.
Kansas City Board Of Trade To Offer Electronic Trading

Date 17/08/2004

The Kansas City Board of Trade announced today that the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT‚) will host the KCBT futures and options contracts on its e-cbot‚ electronic trading platform powered by LIFFE CONNECT‚ in the fourth quarter of 2004. The KCBT‚ wheat futures and options contracts will continue to be traded by open outcry during regular trading hours. Under the hosting agreement, the KCBT will remain independent and determine its own open and close times.
Jukka Ruuska Elected Chairman Of NOREX

Date 17/08/2004

Following the signing of the new NOREX Co-operation Agreement on 7 April 2004, HEX Integrated Markets has now become a shareholder in Nordic Exchanges A/S. Oslo Børs and Copenhagen Stock Exchange have both sold 9% of their shareholding to HEX Integrated Markets, and the share distribution in the company is the following: · HEX Integrated Markets: 50% (including the shares formerly owned by Stockholmsbörsen) · Oslo Børs: 23% · Copenhagen Stock Exchang

Clearstream Extends Global Reach With Access To 40 Markets - Iceland Is Added To Widen Clearstream's Global Network For Customers

Date 17/08/2004

Clearstream, via its Danish depository Danske Bank, now offers access to the Icelandic market. Clearstream customers can settle free of payment transactions in Icelandic government debt executed on the Icelandic Stock Exchange (ICEX). With this addition, Clearstream's network now reaches 40 markets around the globe: 24 in Europe, five in the Americas, ten in the Asia Pacific region and in South Africa. This network is the widest of any international central securities depository and enables cou
CBOT Expands Its Electronic Trading Platform

Date 17/08/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT® ) announced today it will host on its electronic trading platform the agricultural futures and options products of the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT?) and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGE), providing a single operating system for the largest agricultural commodity exchanges in the United States. In addition, the agreement designates the CBOT as the two exchanges' sole direct distributor of market data through the CBOT Quote Vendor Network.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Annual Report 2004

Date 16/08/2004

Click Here to view the Tokyo Stock Exchange Annual Report for 2004.
Tim Breedon Joins The UK’s Financial Reporting Council

Date 16/08/2004

Patricia Hewitt, Trade & Industry Secretary today confirmed the appointment of Tim Breedon as a director of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).
Standard & Poor’s Announces Change To S&P US Indices

Date 16/08/2004

Synaptics Inc. (NASD:SYNA) will replace U.S. Oncology Inc. (NASD:USON) in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on Friday, August 20. U.S. Oncology is being taken private by Oiler Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe IX L.P., in a transaction expected to close on or about that date. The deal is still pending shareholder approval. Standard & Poor’s will monitor this transaction, and post any relevant updates on its website: www.standardandpoors.com.