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Euronext's March Highlights

Date 01/04/2004

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Euronext.Liffe White Sugar Futures & Options Post Record Trading Volumes

Date 01/04/2004

Euronext.liffe's White Sugar futures and options contracts set a new all-time monthly traded volume record of 141,872 contracts in March 2004, breaking the previous record of 130,155 contracts set in January 2004.
Euronext.liffe Takes The Lead In Global Short-Term Interest Rate Products

Date 01/04/2004

For the first month ever, in March 2004, Euronext.liffe traded more short-term interest rate (STIR) futures and options contracts than any other exchange in the world, with a total volume of 36.1 million contracts.
Eurex Achieves Record Turnover In March With Over 117 Million Contracts - Eurex Closes Q1 With Record Number Of Contracts - Around 290 Million - Record Turnover In Equity-Based Derivates And Euro-Bobl And Euro-Schatz Futures

Date 01/04/2004

For Eurex, March 2004 was the most successful month in the history of the international derivates market. Eurex broke the existing record achieved in March 2003 (106 million contracts) by around 11 million contracts, or 10 percent, bringing monthly turnover up to over 117 million contracts. In Q1 2004, the world's largest derivatives market turned over around 290 million contracts, outperforming Q1 2003 (265 million contracts) by nine percent.
Dow Jones Indexes Hires Anthony Yeung To Head Business Development In Asia

Date 01/04/2004

Dow Jones Indexes today announced that it has hired former Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) marketing executive Anthony Yeung as regional director to handle business activities in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dow Jones Changes the Composition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Three Component Stocks Will Be Replaced

Date 01/04/2004

American International Group Inc., Pfizer Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. will replace AT&T Corp., Eastman Kodak Co. and International Paper Co. in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, effective with the opening of trading on April 8, Dow Jones & Company announced.
Deutsche Börse: Equities Turnover In March Up By 52 Percent Month-On-Month - Total Turnover On German Stock Exchanges Of EUR370 Billion - Record Number Of Transactions On Xetra

Date 01/04/2004

The trading volume on Germany's stock exchanges increased substantially in March. Order book statistics, which are based on single counting of all transactions in the order book of Xetra and floor trading, show that the German stock exchanges generated an equities turnover of €112.13 billion- around 32 percent more than in the previous month and 52 percent more than in March 2003. €104.91 billion of this total relates to trading in German equities, with foreign equities accounting for €
CME Announces Regular Quarterly Revision Of Price Limits And Bands For Stock Index Products

Date 01/04/2004

Regular quarterly revisions of price limits and bands for stock index futures and options traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) become effective with the first GLOBEX® electronic trading session of the second quarter of 2004 which began at 3:30 p.m. (Central time) March 31, 2004.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inaugurates Opening Of Four New Telecommunications Hubs In Europe; New Hubs Will Provide European Customers Direct, Cost-Effective Access To GLOBEX®

Date 01/04/2004

To further expand access and increase efficiency of GLOBEX throughout Europe, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) today announced the availability of four new telecommunications hubs in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt and Gibraltar. CME Chairman Terry Duffy and CME Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue marked the opening of the new hub in Dublin with Irish Minister of Finance Charlie McGreevy and Mary McDonnell, President and CEO of Geneva Trading, which is a key CME customer that is among the
CBOE Volume Gains For Seventh Consecutive Month, March Up 43%; - Holds Top Spot Among U.S. Options Exchanges

Date 01/04/2004

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, announced today that March volume totaled 32,953,769 contracts traded, an increase of 43% over the March 2003 volume of 23,041,783 contracts. This was the seventh consecutive month that CBOE registered volume gains over year-ago levels. Additionally, three new monthly volume records were set in index options products, including: S&P 500 Index (SPX), Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (QQQ) and iShares Russell 2000 Inde