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CME Posts Busiest Month Ever As Average Daily Volume* Exceeds Three Million Contracts For Second Consecutive Month - Eurodollars On GLOBEX® Increase 10 Fold To Nearly 390,000 Contracts Per Day; Eurodollar Options Up 53 Percent Vs. April 2003

Date 03/05/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), the largest U.S. futures exchange, today reported its second consecutive month of record activity as average daily volume in April totaled 3.3 million contracts per day, up 44 percent compared to April 2003. Volume on GLOBEX®, CME’s electronic trading platform, averaged a monthly record of 1.6 million contracts per day in April 2004, up 62 percent compared to the same period last year.
CFTC Seeks Public Comment On Clearing Corporation Proposal To Clear Eurex Transactions

Date 03/05/2004

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published for public comment a request from The Clearing Corporation (TCC) to permit implementation of the first phase of a Global Clearing Link between TCC and Eurex Clearing AG. According to the request, U.S. customers would be able, upon implementation of this first phase, to clear through TCC clearing members futures and options traded on Eurex Frankfurt AG based on the German Bund, Bobl, and Schatz, as well as on the DAX and Dow Jones Euro
CCorp And Eurex Clearing Finalize Terms Of Global Clearing Link - CCorp Requests CFTC Action To Permit Implementation Of Phase I

Date 03/05/2004

The Clearing Corporation (CCorp) and Eurex Clearing have finalized terms of their Global Clearing Link and CCorp has requested that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) take action to permit implementation of the first phase of the Global Clearing Link.
CBOE April Volume Rises 39%, Year-To-Date Volume Up 46% - CBOE Futures Exchange Makes Strong Debut

Date 03/05/2004

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, announced today that April volume totaled 31,678,263 contracts traded, an increase of 39% over the April 2003 volume of 22,772,736 contracts. This was the eighth consecutive month that CBOE registered volume gains over year-ago levels. Through the end of April, CBOE's year-to-date volume of 126,269,989 contracts traded is 46% ahead of 2003's pace of 86,535,081 contracts.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 03/05/2004

In last week’s commentary we stated that the momentum was slowing in the rise of the market. This week proved us wrong with the DCI up 1.8% on last week’s close with good price discovery, driven higher by heavyweights Sechaba, BIHL and FNBB. Topping the week’s gainers was Sechaba which gained 7% to a new high of P12.34 on 3,210 shares.

April 2004 - Euronext Key Indicators - Record April For Euronext.liffe - Volumes Up 32% Year-To-Date - Individual Equity Products Up 52% Year-To-Date - Short-Term Interest Rate Products Up 32% Year-To-Date - - 11.7 Million Transactions In Cash In April -

Date 03/05/2004

Cash products 11.7 million transactions were registered on Euronext’s cash markets in April, a daily average of 583,000, down 9.8% on the same month last year, which was particularly active for April. The total of 53.4 million transactions completed in the year-to-date represents an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period of last year. The daily average of 635,000 transactions registered in the year-to-date is up 7.4% on the same period of last year.
Warsaw Stock Exchange Announces An Extraordinary Adjustment In The WIG, WIG-PL And WIRR Portfolios

Date 30/04/2004

Following the trading session on April 30, 2004, shares of company WISTIL will be removed from WIG and WIG-PL portfolios and shares of companies AMPLI, BEEFSAN, ENAP, ENERGOPOL and GANT will be removed from WIRR portfolio.
Wanadoo And Gucci Removed From Euronext 100 Index

Date 30/04/2004

Following the official result of the takeover bid by France Telecom for the company Wanadoo (Euronext 100 Index), Wanadoo will be removed from the Euronext 100 Index effective Wednesday 5 May 2004.
UK’s Financial Services Authority Takes Forward Risk And Capital Requirements For Lloyd's Market

Date 30/04/2004

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) took a further step forward today to implementing its new prudential requirements for insurance business conducted at Lloyd’s.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Compliance Quarterly (Inspection)

Date 30/04/2004

At TSE, we review whether our trading participants comply with our rules and regulations and whether they have any problems in their securities business operations. We also take precautions against possible violations, act to prevent recurrence of the same violations, and introduce disciplinary measures when necessary. This is the quarterly report describing these activities.