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HKEx: Stabilisation Period For DCASS Has Been Completed Following Smooth Operations For Two Weeks

Date 22/04/2004

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today (Thursday) that the stabilisation period for the Derivatives Clearing and Settlement System (DCASS) has ended.
Hibbett Sporting Goods Inc. Added To S&P SmallCap 600 Index

Date 22/04/2004

Hibbett Sporting Goods Inc. (NASD:HIBB) will replace Butler Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:BBR) in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, April 27, 2004. Butler Manufacturing is being acquired by S&P Global 1200 constituent BlueScope Steel Ltd. in a transaction anticipated to close on or about that date. The deal is still pending shareholder approval. Standard & Poor’s will monitor this transaction, and post any relevant updates on its website: www.standardandpoors.com.
Eurodollars On GLOBEX® Set New One-Day Volume Record As GLOBEX Posts Second Busiest Trading Day* Ever ; Milk Futures And Options Also Reach New Open Interest Record

Date 22/04/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), the largest U.S. futures exchange, reported record volume in its benchmark Eurodollar interest rate futures contract traded on GLOBEX® during the Wednesday, April 21 trading session.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Shareholders Elect Ten Individuals To Board Of Directors

Date 22/04/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) yesterday announced the election results from its annual meeting. Shareholders elected ten directors to two-year terms expiring in 2006, including three new non-industry directors.
CESR Publishes Standard No. 2 On Financial Information - Co-Ordination Of Enforcement Activities

Date 22/04/2004

CESR releases today the standard on the organisation of greater co-ordination of enforcement activities by supervisors of financial information in Europe ‘Standard 2 on Financial Information – Co-ordination of Enforcement Activities’ (Ref. CESR/03-317c) and CESR’s Feedback Statement (Ref. CESR/04-045b) following CESR’s consultation on the draft Standard.

CBOT Bund, Bobl And Schatz Futures To Begin Trading On April 23

Date 22/04/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) will launch on Friday, April 23, 2004, Bund, Bobl and Schatz futures, which will trade exclusively on the CBOT's premier electronic trading platform.
ASX To Adopt Integrated Trading System

Date 22/04/2004

ASX will become the first top-10 market to offer a fully integrated platform for the trading of all its listed securities – spanning equities, interest rate securities, warrants, options, index options, index futures and commodity futures.
APK And VPC To Merge - Creating A Strong Nordic Central Securities

Date 22/04/2004

Depository VPC AB and OM HEX AB (publ) have signed a Letter of Intent concerning a merger between the OMHEX-owned Finnish Central Securities Depository (APK), and VPC, the Swedish equivalent, thereby creating a strong joint central securities depository (CSD) group within the Nordic area (NCSD). The Letter of Intent also covers implementation of OMHEX's systems solution for settlement and depository, EXIGO CSD(TM) (EXIGO), on the Finnish market. In addition, NCSD will also acquire a license to u
Investable Weight Factor Change For Seat Pagine Gialle SPA In The S&P/MIB Index

Date 22/04/2004

Standard & Poor’s will change the IWF (Investable Weight Factor) for Seat Pagine Gialle (Italy, ISIN IT0003479638) a member of the S&P/MIB Index from 0.375 to 0.498 effective at the close of trading Tuesday, April 27, 2004. This is following the sale of ordinary shares by Silver, which has reduced its holding to 50.2% of shares outstanding.
Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 28 April 2004

Date 21/04/2004

TIFFE announced the temporary change of trading hours for all contracts on 28 April 2004, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am. Opening on that day Pre-open 8:30am - 8:45am (Normal days 8:45am - 9:00am) Open of morning session 8:45am (Normal days 9:00am)