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Strongest Trading Month Ever On Eurex With 149 Million Contracts - 375 Million Contracts Traded In Q1, 2006, Up 20 Percent On Q1, 2005 - Record Trading In Both Fixed-Income And Index Products - Single Stock Futures Trade More Than One Million Contracts In

Date 03/04/2006

Eurex, the world's largest derivatives exchange, reported on Monday that a total of 149 million contracts were traded in March. This is the strongest trading month ever on Eurex and marks an increase of approximately 27 percent on March 2005. The previous record trading month was June 2005 with 126 million contracts. On March 7, Eurex set a new daily trading record with 10.4 million contracts. The average daily trading volume in March was 6.4 million contracts.
Standard & Poor's Reports March Index Returns

Date 03/04/2006

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Share Change For Santos Limited In The S&P/ASX 50 Index

Date 03/04/2006

Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P/ASX 50 Index effective after the close of trading Thursday, April 6, 2006:
Record CME First-Quarter 2006 Volume Rose to 5.0 Million Contracts Per Day, Up 26 Percent From Year-Ago Period; Record March Volume Exceeded 5.3 Million Contracts Per Day - CME Broke Quarterly Volume Records Across All Product Lines - CME Globex(R) First-

Date 03/04/2006

CME, the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange, today announced that record volume for the first quarter averaged 5.0 million contracts per day, up 26 percent from the same period a year ago. Total volume exceeded 307 million contracts for the quarter. On the CME Globex electronic trading platform, average daily volume increased 31 percent to a record 3.4 million contracts over the same timeframe, representing 69 percent of total exchange trading. During the quarter, total options
Oslo Børs: Monthly Statistics For Equities 2006

Date 03/04/2006

Indices, turnover per sector, winners and losers, key figures per instrument, shareholder structure, new issues and new listings last month and year to date. The archive includes monthly statistics from May 2001.

OneChicago March Volume Propels First Quarter To 60% Increase

Date 03/04/2006

OneChicago, LLC today reported that 395,988 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in March, advancing first quarter volume to more than 1.6 million contracts, a 60% increase over the year-ago period. Average daily volume (ADV) for the quarter was 26,020. March ADV was 17,217 compared to an ADV of 34,792 in March 2005. Open interest stood at 1,052,747 contracts March 31.
NYSE Composite Index Gains 6.2% In The First-Quarter Of 2006 - NYA Continues To Outperform Other Major U.S. Indexes For The Third Consecutive Year

Date 03/04/2006

The NYSE Composite Index® (NYA) continued to outperform other major U.S. indexes in 2006, ending the first quarter up 6.2%.
NYMEX Launches NYMEX Direct™ Energy Pro - New Product Will Include Charts, Quotes, Data and Real-Time Dow Jones Energy Service

Date 03/04/2006

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it will launch NYMEX Direct™ Energy Pro, a new information service providing real-time energy news, market data and charting capabilities. In addition to providing the trading community with up-to-the-moment market information, the new service will include the full Dow Jones Energy Service.
March Volume Of 55 Million Is Busiest Month In CBOE History - Record Index Option Trading Propels CBOE Total Volume To 46% Increase

Date 03/04/2006

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that March was the busiest month in CBOE history. Driven by record trading activity in index options, total exchange volume at CBOE for the month totaled more than 55 million contracts, an increase of 46% over March 2005. March's record tally surpassed the previous high of 53.9 million contracts traded during January 2006. The record 22,108,607 index options contracts traded topped the previous high of 21,942,688 contracts from October 20
Kansas City Board Of Trade Sets Three New Volume Records In March - Trade Volume Running 58 Percent Ahead For Year

Date 03/04/2006

The Kansas City Board of Trade year-to-date volume is running 58 percent ahead of last year following active trading in March that yielded new March records for the wheat futures contract, the wheat options contract and the exchange as a whole.