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CBOE To List Options On The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX); Investors Now Have Opportunity To Trade Options On The Market's Widely-Disseminated "Fear Gauge"

Date 18/03/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that the exchange plans to list options on the CBOE Volatility Index, VIX, (ticker symbol VXB) for trading beginning Friday, April 22, 2005. VIX is the widely disseminated, benchmark index commonly referred to as the market's "fear gauge," and for the first time, investors will now have an opportunity to trade options on this premier measure of market volatility and investor sentiment. Futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (ticker symbol
CBOE To Begin Disseminating Two New Indexes Based On The Dow Jones Industrial Average Today: CBOE DJIA Volatility Index And CBOE DJIA Buywrite Index

Date 18/03/2005

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that it will begin disseminating today two new indexes based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA): the CBOE DJIA Volatility Index (ticker symbol: VXD) and the CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index (ticker symbol: BXD). Both indexes are new benchmark indexes, created by CBOE under an agreement with Dow Jones & Company, Inc., and are based on prices of Options on the Dow (DJX), traded at CBOE.
CBOE Futures Exchange Announces Plans To Connect To Trading Technologies' FIX Gateway

Date 18/03/2005

The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) today announced CFE will connect to TT's FIX Gateway, which is based on the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol. In doing so, TT's X_TRADER® customers will be able to trade CFE's products via TT's X_TRADER platform, which incorporates TT's patented MD TraderTM. The CFE expects to launch trading on the TT platform later in 2005. All X_TRADER users will have the option to trade CFE products,
CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) To Launch Futures On The New CBOE DJIA Volatility Index

Date 18/03/2005

Boca Raton, FL and Chicago, IL - March 18, 2005 - The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) today announced that it will launch futures on the new CBOE DJIA Volatility Index (VXD). Under an agreement with Dow Jones & Company, CFE has created the first tradable volatility product based on volatility in the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average. Futures on the VXD are expected to begin trading on April 25, 2005, pending regulatory approval.
CalPERS Board Elects Committee Chairs

Date 18/03/2005

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System this week elected chairs and vice chairs for key committees of the pension fund's Board of Administration.

Boston Options Exchange Sets New Trading Volume Record

Date 18/03/2005

BOX set a second record for total contract volume traded in three days; today's volume of 336,529 eclipsed the previous record of 333,309 set on March 16, 2005.
Amendment To The Quarterly Rebalancing For S&P Global 100, S&P Europe 350, S&P Latin America 40, And S&P/ASX 50 Indices

Date 18/03/2005

In reference to the March 16, 2005 Quarterly Rebalancing announcement, Standard & Poor's is issuing an amended file for the Investible Weight Factors changes. In addition to the previously announced IWF changes for some of the S&P/ASX 50 constituents, this new file includes the IWF change for News Corp, a constituent of the S&P Global 100. As announced all these updates will be effective after the close of business Friday, March 18, 2005. F
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Changes In S&P/TOPIX 150

Date 17/03/2005

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) and Standard & Poor' s (S&P) will make the following changes in S&P/TOPIX 150 Index effective after the close of trading on Thursday, March 31, 2005.
Tallinn Stock Exchange Forwards The Materials Concerning The Activities Of Swedbank To The Estonian And Swedish Financial Supervision Authorities

Date 17/03/2005

One of the priorities of Tallinn Stock Exchange (TSE) is to assure the credibility and regular functioning of the securities market as well as the investor protection. Therefore the TSE Listing and Surveillance Committee discussed the cash offer to the Hansabank shareholders by Swedbank on its meeting yesterday.
SWX Swiss Exchange Reprimands Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG - Breach Of Financial Reporting Requirements In 2002/2003 Annual Report

Date 17/03/2005

The SWX Swiss Exchange has ascertained that Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG (EGL) failed to comply with several points of the financial reporting requirements in its 2002/2003 annual report. The SWX Disciplinary Commission has therefore issued a reprimand and ordered that the sanction be published.