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Date 02/07/1999

CBOE Maintains Record Volume Pace for the Year, Open Interest at Record Levels

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) closed the second quarter of 1999 with record breaking year-to-date volume levels. Total option volume at the CBOE hit a new year-to-date record for June of 113,104,596 contracts (72,294,060 calls and 40,810,536 puts) which is 14.6 % ahead of last year's record setting year-to-date pace of 98,714,011 contracts.
Date 02/07/1999

Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

The market surged 3.2% to an all-time high of 1,041.88 as stocks enjoyed all round support. The financial sector was particularly strong.
Date 02/07/1999

ASX Trading December 1999 and Y2K

There will be no trading or settlement on ASX on Friday 31/12/1999. The reasons for this decision are Y2K related.
Date 01/07/1999

The Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm become the OM Stockholm Exchange

From 1 July, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm will merge, becoming the company the OM Stockholm Exchange - OM Stockholmsbörsen AB - with the activities of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm combined in this newly incorporated entity. The OM Stockholm Exchange's President is Carl Johan Högbom.
Date 01/07/1999

NYSE Announces Third-Quarter 1999 Circuit Breaker and Trading Collar Levels

The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit breaker and trading collar trigger levels for third-quarter 1999, effective Thursday, July 1.

Date 01/07/1999

NYMEX Sets Monthly Copper Volume Record in June

A monthly volume record for COMEX Division copper futures was established in June with 319,157 contracts traded by month's end, surpassing the previous monthly volume record of 296,162 contracts traded in April of this year.
Date 01/07/1999

NYMEX Offers to Purchase Majority Shares of IPE

The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) this morning sent a letter to the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), offering to purchase between 55 and 70% of the IPE under the same for-profit holding company structure offered to it in a proposal presented by outside investors.
Date 01/07/1999

Iceland Stock Exchange receives new operating licence

Effective today, July 1st, the Iceland Stock Exchange has been issued an operating licence as a stock exchange and a regulated securities market by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in accordance with the Act on Stock Exchanges and Regulated Securities Markets no. 34/1998. This is the first exchange licence to be issued under this law and in effect confirms that the Iceland Stock Exchange fulfills all the requirements of Icelandic law and the relevant E.U. directives.
Date 01/07/1999

Eurex Sets New Worldwide Record in Trading Volume in June

June was a record month for the Eurex derivatives market in several respects. With volume of 38.4 million contracts traded, Eurex beat its previous record of 33.8 million contracts traded in March, thus setting another new worldwide benchmark. The June contract volume is about 88 percent higher than the number traded in the same month of last year. A total of more than 177 million contracts were traded during the first six months of 1999, more than one and a half times the number traded in all o
Date 01/07/1999

DEBS to start trading on 1st July

In response to the growing demand for pan-European trading, MEFF Renta Fija will launch a new futures contract known as DEBS, a contract designed for then Eurozone, referenced against benchmark issues of the four core economies in the euro zone, which together account for more than 80% of the GDP in the EMU. The basket will consist of 30% German debt, 30% French debt, 20% Italian debt and 20% Spanish, respecting the risk symmetry between France and Germany on the one hand and Italy and Spain on