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June Volume At CBOE Rises 5% - Year-To-Date Volume Is Up 34% From 2003

Date 01/07/2004

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, announced today that June volume totaled 26,545,956 contracts traded, an increase of 5% over the June 2003 volume of 25,340,487 contracts. Through the end of June, CBOE's year-to-date volume of 180,722,766 contracts traded is 34% ahead of 2003's pace.
HEX Integrated Markets Statistics January - June 2004

Date 01/07/2004

Average daily share turnover amounted to EUR 2 443 (1 665) million. The turnover rate was 113 (113) per cent. The average daily derivative trading turnover amounted to 511 946 (350 431) contracts. The number of listed companies amounted to 512 at the end of June (542). The number of members amounted to 168 at the end of June (169).
GL TRADE Confirms The Acquisition Of Iris Group In The Netherlands

Date 01/07/2004

GL TRADE, the leading electronic trading group, confirmed the signature of the agreement to acquire Iris Group, a Dutch company, today. Iris specialises in Options Market Making, has 15 clients and had a turnover of €1.3m in 2003. All Iris staff will join GL TRADE’s team in Amsterdam during the summer.
First Half 2004 - Euronext Key Indicators - Euronext.liffe Volume Up 24% On 2003 - 12 IPOs Representing €6.1bn Raised - Over 74 Million Cash Transactions

Date 01/07/2004

Cash products Over 74 million transactions were registered on Euronext’s cash markets in the first half of 2004, stable on the same period of 2003. A daily average of 585,000 transactions were completed in the year-to-date.
Eurex Turns Over Around 94 Million Contracts In June - Eurex Closes First Half Of 2004 With Record Number Of Contracts - 553 Million - Record Turnover In The Italian Equity Option Segment

Date 01/07/2004

The international derivatives market Eurex turned over around 94 million contracts in June and therefore closed the first half of 2004 with record turnover. Over 553 million contracts were traded in the first six months of 2004, up by around 5 percent on the same period of the previous year (524 million contracts).

CME's Second Quarter 2004 Volume* Of 3.3 Million Contracts Increased 25 Percent - GLOBEX® Trading Up 65 Percent; Exchange Volume In June Averaged 3.1 Million Contracts Per Day As GLOBEX Trading Grew To 54 Percent Of Total

Date 01/07/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), the largest futures exchange in the U.S., today reported its best volume quarter in its history with 3.3 million contracts per day during the second quarter. With exchange-wide volume above 69 million and total average daily volume (ADV) exceeding 3.15 million contracts, June marked the fourth consecutive month in which CME ADV exceeded 3 million contracts. Additionally, average daily trading on CME’s GLOBEX® electronic trading platform was approximately
Charles Fishkin Named Director Of SEC's New Office Of Risk Assessment Director To Coordinate Initiative Launched By Chairman In 2003

Date 01/07/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the selection of Charles A. Fishkin as the director of the newly formed Office of Risk Assessment (ORA). Mr. Fishkin will manage the overall risk assessment program, coordinating risk assessment activities across the agency, and will report directly to SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson.
CBOT Quarterly Volume Soars To New Record

Date 01/07/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that overall exchange volume set a new quarterly record. For the quarter ended June 30, 2004, volume reached an all-time high of 158,509,267 contracts, up 37.1 percent from the same quarter last year and up 16.1 percent from last quarter. In addition, volume in June was up 20.7 percent from June 2003 at 49,738,302 contracts and up 40.0 percent year-to-date (YTD) at 295,082,458 contracts.
Baltic Stock Exchanges: Baltic List To Be Expanded

Date 01/07/2004

As a next step towards the creation of a joint Baltic market, the current Baltic List consisting of 15 largest listed companies of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian stock exchanges will be expanded to comprise all main list companies of the three exchanges as of today, 1 July 2004.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission And ASX Sign Supervisory MOU

Date 01/07/2004

A new agreement to improve the efficiency of market supervision by minimising overlap and increasing regulatory cooperation has been signed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).