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LME Announces Additional Grades For The Polypropylene (PP) Plastics Contract

Date 25/02/2005

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has today confirmed that, in advance of the launch of plastics futures contracts on 27 May, it has introduced two new deliverable grades to the polypropylene (PP) contract specification.
ICEX News & Views - This Issue Highlights The Publication Of Summary Of Surveillance Cases In 2004.

Date 25/02/2005

Click here to download ICEX News & Views volume 5, issue 8, 25 February 2005.
HKFE Clearing Corporation Limited And The SEHK Options Clearing House Limited Abolish Standard Instruction Input/Processing Fee

Date 25/02/2005

HKFE Clearing Corporation Limited (HKCC) and The SEHK Options Clearing House Limited (SEOCH), wholly-owned members of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) Group, have informed their Participants that the standard instruction input/processing fee will be abolished with effect from 1 March 2005.
HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contracts

Date 25/02/2005

Click here to download HKFE revised margins for futures contracts.
CBOT 10- & 2-Year U.S. Treasuries Reach New Open Interest High

Date 25/02/2005

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced that open interest in its Ten- and Two-Year U.S. Treasury note futures reached all-time highs on Thursday, February 24, 2005. In addition, CBOT Two-Year U.S. Treasury note futures set a new volume record.

Tokyo Grain Exchange Revised Margin Requirements For March 2005

Date 24/02/2005

Click here to download the Tokyo Grain Exchange’s revised margin requirements for March 2005.
The Prague Stock Exchange Again In Record Figures

Date 24/02/2005

On 22 February the Exchange reached the second biggest value in SPAD trading history when the total trade value in SPAD was CZK 4.019 bil. Only 0.8% were lacking for overrun of the highest trade value in SPAD from January this year.
Thailand Securities Depository To Offer One-Stop Back Office Service For Equity, Debt And Derivatives Trading

Date 24/02/2005

The President of Thailand Securities Depository Co., Ltd. (TSD), Mrs. Nongram Wongwanich said that, according to the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) Bond Market Development Plan II (A.D. 2005 – 2014), the bond market is set to become one of the three principal pillars of Thailand’s financial sector along with the commercial banks and the equity market. The MoF has appointed the TSD to be the primary depository, clearing and settlement center for debt instruments in Thailand. The TSD will therefore b
Share Change For Arrk Corp In The S&P Japan SmallCap 250 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 24/02/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following change in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 Indices effective after the close of trading, Thursday March 3rd, 2005: Arrk Corp (Japan, SEDOL: 6041649, GICS: Industrials, GICS Code: 20201030) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 3,000,000 to 30,450,
SEC: Chairman Donaldson Announces New Appointments

Date 24/02/2005

Chairman William H. Donaldson today announced the appointments of Joseph A. Hall to serve as Managing Executive for Policy and Martha B. Peterson to serve as Counselor to the Chairman at the Securities and Exchange Commission.