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Date 02/07/2001

Virtually All Previous Volume/Open Interest Records Shattered In June At The KCBT

June was the largest trading month ever at the Kansas City Board of Trade as new volume records were set for the exchange as a whole, for wheat futures and for wheat options. And, new open interest records were set for wheat futures and wheat options. Entire exchange volume during the month of June amounted to 352,271 contracts, which broke the previous monthly record of 335,203, set in June of 2000, by 5.1 percent. The new record is not only for June, but for any given month.
Date 02/07/2001

UCBH Holdings, Inc. To Join Nasdaq Financial-100 Index Beginning July 10, 2001

UCBH Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:UCBH) of San Francisco, California, will become a component of the Nasdaq Financial-100 Index©, effective at the beginning of trading Tuesday, July 10, 2001. UCBH Holdings, Inc. will replace Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq:SVRN), which is de-listing from The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM.
Date 02/07/2001

TIFFE: Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 2 July 2001

TIFFE announced that trading for all contracts starts at 8:45am (JST) on 2 July 2001, responding to the release of a BOJ's TANKAN report at 8:50am.
Date 02/07/2001

Nasdaq Makes Additional Price Adjustments

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. today announced that in light of the network interruptions experienced by Nasdaq® on Friday, June 29, 2001, particularly in the context of the annual rebalance of the Russell Indexes, Nasdaq® MarketWatch today and over the weekend adjusted Friday's closing prices for 35 Nasdaq issues.
Date 02/07/2001

LIFFE - Revised Trading Hours For Short Term Interest Rate ("STIR ") Futures And Options Contracts

From Monday 9 July LIFFE will be extending the trading times for the Three Month Sterling (Short Sterling) contracts and options on all Short Term Interest Rate Products.

Date 02/07/2001

Ivan Tyryshkin Has Been Elected RTS President

On 22 June 2001 at the General meeting of RTS members Ivan A. Tyryshkin, present Head of the Board of the National Association of Stock Market Participants, was elected the new President of the Exchange.
Date 02/07/2001

HEX Calculation Of New Technology Index Started Today

HEX started today the calculation of the new HEXTech technology stock index. The trading with derivatives based on HEXTech will start in the near future. In HEXTech, the weight of stocks of any single company is limited to twenty per cent. The index constituents include Nokia, Sonera, Tietoenator and Elisa Communications, Comptel, Elcoteq, F-Secure, Perlos, Jot Automation Group and Stonesoft.
Date 02/07/2001

Final Outcome For Next 150 Split Up Of Eridania Beghin-Say - Egide, Net2S And Riber Deleted From Next 150; Infovista To Remain In N150

Because of changed market conditions, the final result for the selection of Next 150 Index of the split up of Eridania Beghin-Say differs from the indication given in our press release earlier today. Based on the Market capitalisation of the close of Friday 29 June Egide, Net2S and Riber will be deleted from the Next 150 index, effective 2 July 2001.
Date 02/07/2001

Eurex Turns Over 324 Million Contracts In First Half Of 2001 - Six-Month Turnover 37 Percent Higher Than Previous Year - 53.2 Million Contracts In June - Eurex Capital Market Products World's Top Family Of Exchange-Traded Derivatives

Eurex, the world's Number One derivatives market, turned over 53.2 million contracts in June. This is almost 35 percent higher than the figure for June last year and just short of the figure for May 2001 (53.8 million contracts), the third-highest monthly total posted at Eurex to date. Turnover for the first half of the year shows a total of 324 million contracts traded, about 37 percent higher than the first six months of last year.
Date 02/07/2001

EEX Turns Over 1,415 Gwh On Integrated Spot And Futures Market In June - Continuing High Turnover In Spot Market - Stable Trading Volumes In Futures Market

The European Energy Exchange EEX released its turnover figures for the month of June on Monday: 1,415 gigawatt hours (GWh) were traded on the integrated spot and futures market. EEX is thus continuing to expand its position as the largest and most liquid electricity exchange in Continental Europe. The June total comprises 861 GWh in the spot market, and roughly 554 GWh in the futures market. The six-month total for the spot market this year is 4,356 GWh traded; some 3,346 GWh have been traded in