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Date 19/07/2001

Deutsche Börse Publishes Performance Ratings Of Designated Sponsors In Xetra - 50 Designated Sponsors Achieve AA Rating - All Nemax 50 Companies Have At Least One Designated Sponsor With An AA Rating

On Thursday, Deutsche Börse published the quarterly ratings for the current 65 Designated Sponsors in Xetra. They show that during the second quarter of the year 50 Designated Sponsors, representing 97 percent of the companies, fulfilled the criteria for the highest performance rating, "AA." They thus achieved the best rating with regard to quotation time and the prescribed spreads. Only three Designated Sponsors were not issued a rating because they failed to meet the minimum requirements last
Date 19/07/2001

CME Has Second Busiest Day in 103-Year History As Trading Volume Reaches Nearly 2.7 Million Contracts - Eurodollar Options Set New Single-Day Volume Record

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., (CME) marked the second busiest trading day in its 103-year history yesterday, July 18, when 2,682,228 contracts changed hands. The underlying value of the nearly 2.7 million contracts traded totaled $2.13 trillion.
Date 19/07/2001

CBOT To Launch Contract On The Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index

The Chicago Board of Trade, DowSMJones Indexes and AIG Trading Group Inc. (AIG Trading), a member company of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), today announced the launch of a futures contract on the DowSMJones-AIG Commodity IndexSM (DJ-AIGCI). The CBOT® expects to launch the DJ-AIGCISM futures contract in the fourth quarter of 2001, on a/c/e, its electronic trading platform.
Date 19/07/2001

Amendments To The Main Board Listing Rules And GEM Listing Rules To Dispense With The Exchange's Portion Of The Transaction Levy And Introduce A Trading Fee

With effect from 1 September 2001, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong ("the Exchange") will cease to be entitled to its portion of the transaction levy and will introduce a trading fee of an equivalent amount. The trading fee will be calculated at the rate of 0.005% per side of the consideration of the transaction, payable by each of the buyer and the seller, or 0.01% of the total consideration of the transaction.
Date 18/07/2001

The Central Bank Of Iceland Auctions Repurchase Agreements For 28.6 Billion Krónur

The Central Bank of Iceland held a weekly auction of repurchase agreements on July 17th the maturity of 14 days. The auction was a fixed rate one at 10.9 per cent p.a. Offers were made for a total amount of 28.6 billion krónur resulting in repurchase contracts for that amount.

Date 18/07/2001

Standard & Poor's - Index Change - S&P Global 1200, TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE 60, S&P/TSE 60 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap, TSE 100 And TSE 200 Indices

Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on July 19, 2001, the following changes will take place in the S&P Global 1200, TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE 60, S&P/TSE 60 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap, TSE 100 and TSE 200 Indices.
Date 18/07/2001

SEC Further Extends Time For Banks To Comply With Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Broker-Dealer Registration Requirements And Extends Comment Period

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it issued an order further extending until May 12, 2002 the compliance dates for banks with respect to the broker-dealer registration requirements contained in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The Commission also indicated that it anticipates amending the interim final rules it issued on May 11, 2001, concerning these requirements, and the Commission issued a notice extending the comment period on the rules until September 4, 2001. The Commi
Date 18/07/2001

Nasdaq's Second-Quarter 2001 Results - Share Volume Up Over One Year Ago

The Nasdaq Stock Market® today announced that daily volume on Nasdaq averaged 1.9 billion shares in the second quarter of this year, an 18.7 percent increase from 1.6 billion shares in the second quarter of 2000. Eleven of the 50 largest trading sessions ever on Nasdaq® occurred in the second quarter of 2001. Nasdaq also experienced its most active single session in the second quarter, when 3.19 billion shares were traded on April 18, 2001.
Date 18/07/2001

Nasdaq MarketSite ExperienceSM Offers Summer Ticket Value And Showcases Technology Innovation

MarketSite ExperienceSM, The Nasdaq Stock Market's high-tech interactive attraction in its Times Square landmark, offers a cool $5 summer admission ticket to all visitors until August 30. The value - tickets are regularly $7 - highlights the debut an exhibit by Nasdaq-listed technology innovator QUALCOMM.
Date 18/07/2001

London Stock Exchange Announces New Technology Appointment

The London Stock Exchange on July 16 announced that WorldCom had been appointed to help install a high-capacity network that will link the Exchange and its customers using Internet Protocol (IP) communications technology.