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OneChicago Reports 104% Increase For March 2005 Volume

Date 01/04/2005

OneChicago, LLC had a record month in March, eclipsing previous monthly volume, average daily volume and open interest records. The Exchange saw a total of 765,424 contracts trade in March, which is 104% higher than the old monthly record of 375,463 set in March 2004. Average daily volume was 34,792 contracts and open interest reached 551,501 contracts before the quarterly expiration. Year-to-date volume is 64% ahead of first quarter 2004.
OMX Exchanges Monthly Statistics March 2005

Date 01/04/2005

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New York Mercantile Exchange To Transition e-miNYsm Futures Contracts To NYMEX ClearPort(sm)

Date 01/04/2005

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will transition its e-miNY(sm) crude oil and natural gas futures contracts to the NYMEX ClearPort(sm) trading platform as the NYMEX miNY(sm) energy futures contracts on Monday, June 20, 2005, at 3:15 PM New York time.
March 2005 - Euronext Key Indicators: Over 39 Million Cash Transactions Completed In First Quarter 2005, Up 16.5 % On 2004 On A Daily Average Basis - Euronext.liffe Trades Over 200 Million Futures And Options Contracts In First Quarter

Date 01/04/2005

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Kansas City Board Of Trade Volume Second Largest For Month Of March

Date 01/04/2005

March trading volume at the Kansas City Board of Trade was the second largest ever for the calendar month of March for both the exchange and the hard red winter wheat futures contract.

ICEX Adopts New Industry Classification And Sector Indices

Date 01/04/2005

As of 1 April this year, ICEX will implement the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) for classifying listed companies into industries. This is done in order to achieve harmonisation with the other NOREX exchanges. Calculation of new sector indices, based on the GICS classifications, will begin at the same time. The new indices will be calculated retroactively to the beginning of 2005 and will each hav
Eurex Closes The First Quarter Of 2005 At A Record Level - With 116.5 Contracts, March Was The Second-Best Month In Eurex’s History - One-Day Record Of Almost 9 Million Contracts On March 16 - Strong Growth In European Equity Options Trading

Date 01/04/2005

The international derivatives market Eurex, closed the first quarter of this year with record volumes. In the first three months, 312 million contracts were traded on Eurex, 8 percent more than in the first quarter of 2004 (Jan-March 2004: 290 million contracts), which was, at the time, also the strongest quarter to date. Moreover, with 116.5 million contracts, March was the second strongest month in the history of Eurex, second only to the record month of March 2004 (117.2 million contracts). A
Deutsche Börse: Equities Turnover In March 4 Percent Up Month-On-Month - €305 Billion In Turnover On German Stock Exchanges In March

Date 01/04/2005

The German stock exchanges generated an equities turnover based on the order book statistics, which show all transactions in the order book of Xetra and broker-supported trading on the floor in single counting, of €96.8 billion in March - an increase of 4 percent month-on-month (February 2005: €92.8 billion). German equities accounted for €91.1 billion of this total, with foreign equities comprising €5.7 billion.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: The Equity Market Hits Second Consecutive Record Month

Date 01/04/2005

For the second month in a row, trading on the equity market reached new highs. Total turnover amounted to DKK 77.1 billion, which is 28 per cent higher than the record set in February. The value of average daily trading peaked at DKK 3.9 billion. A total of 275,000 trades were executed, 2 per cent more than the record month of February.
CME First-Quarter Average Daily Volume Reached Record 3.9 Million Contracts, Up 39 Percent From Last Year - March Monthly Volume Record Of 4.3 Million Contracts Per Day - CME® Globex® First-Quarter Volume Up 95 Percent From 2004 - March Electronic Volume

Date 01/04/2005

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, today reported that total volume for the first quarter averaged a record 3.9 million contracts per day, up 39 percent from the same period a year ago. Total CME volume was above 240 million contracts for the quarter. Average daily volume on the CME Globex electronic trading platform was 2.6 million contracts, a 95 percent increase from first-quarter 2004 and a 26 percent increase from fourth-quarter 2004. During the quarter, CME Globex volume represente