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New York Mercantile Exchange Reduces Position Limits And Accountability Levels For Copper Futures

Date 15/06/2004

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today will make permanent its reduction in spot month position limits to 3,000 contracts for the copper futures contract and will reduce the any–month/all–months position accountability levels to 5,000 from 10,000 contracts.
National Press Club Morning Newsmaker Program Speech: "Market Structure, Competition And The Greater Good for Investors" Bob Greifeld, President And CEO Of The NASDAQ Stock Market

Date 15/06/2004

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Nasdaq Performance Report

Date 15/06/2004

NASDAQ's competitive electronic market structure is designed to provide a fair, fast, efficient and low cost marketplace for companies and investors. The information provided here is a snapshot of key performance benchmarks, which underscore NASDAQ's superior market quality. This data will be updated periodically.
NASDAQ CEO Distributes White Paper At The National Press Club:"Ensuring Competitive American Stock Markets"

Date 15/06/2004

Please click here for the White Paper - "Ensuring Competitive American Stock Markets" - distributed by the Nasdaq CEO At The National Press Club.
Nasdaq Announces Change To Board Of Directors

Date 15/06/2004

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (“NASDAQ®”; OTCBB: NDAQ) today announced that Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive and Director of the WPP Group has retired from the Board of Directors following the completion of the May 26, 2004 annual meeting. Sir Martin cited the demands of his role at WPP and logistics as an overseas Board member as the reasons for retirement. The Board of Directors has elected to reduce the board by one to 17 members following Sir Martin's departure.

London Stock Exchange Annual Report 2004

Date 15/06/2004

Click here to view the PDF version of the London Stock Exchange Annual Report - 2004.
Eurodollar Reaches Record Open Interest On LIFFE CONNECT®

Date 15/06/2004

Euronext.liffe announced that Eurodollar futures and options on LIFFE CONNECT® accumulated a record open interest of 92,418 on Monday 14 June 2004. Following the first expiry in the futures and options contracts, open interest stood at 80,393 on Tuesday 15 June 2004. LIFFE’s Eurodollar open interest continues to grow faster than any other contract in the Exchange’s history, demonstrating the ongoing support of, and long term confidence in, this contract by our customers.
Death Of The Mainframe? - CMS WebView Survey Finds PC Servers Growing In Popularity Among Banks

Date 15/06/2004

The dominance of mainframe computers* in the banking industry is over. Increasingly, PC servers are taking over key banking data management functions such as direct information feed collection and capture of reference data. This is the view of 80% of financial data managers** surveyed recently by CMS WebView plc (CMS) a leading provider of software systems for real-time financial data distribution and management. In fact, 61% of market data managers at banks such as Citi
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: The Minimum Coupon Rate

Date 15/06/2004

The minimum coupon rate applicable to bonds, instruments of debt, mortgages and other debts, cf. the Danish Gains on Securities Act No 806 of 24 September 2003 as amended, has for the period from 1 July 2004 to 31 December 2004 again been fixed at 3 % p.a.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: Sharper Pricing Of KFX Shares

Date 15/06/2004

As of 21 June 2004, when the new KFX portfolio becomes effective, the Copenhagen Stock Exchange will introduce a further level to the existing table of tick sizes for KFX shares. The tick size table shows the minimum price variation between the best bid price and the best offer price for a share in the trading system.