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HKEx's Response To The Financial Secretary's Decision

Date 10/04/2003

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) welcomes the decision of the Financial Secretary to conduct a public consultation on the regulation of listing matters. HKEx will provide input in support of the research and in response to the public consultation. It will work closely with the Government and the Securities and Futures Commission on measures to raise the quality of the Hong Kong financial market.
Global Equities Trading Starts As A Trading Member Of Helsinki Exchanges

Date 10/04/2003

Global Equities Trading BV (GET) will start as a trading member of Helsinki Exchanges on 14 April 2003. Global Equities Trading will trade in the HETI trading system from Amsterdam.
Euronext.liffe Is First Exchange To Offer Single Stock Futures To German Private Investors

Date 10/04/2003

Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, plans to offer its Universal Stock Futures (USFs), a global range of standardised futures contracts on shares of individual companies, to retail investors in Germany. Euronext.liffe is the first exchange to make futures contracts on single stocks available to the German retail market. USF investors can profit from positive or negative price movements of blue chip global equities without the transaction costs associated with deal
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: The XtraMarked - A Market In Progress

Date 10/04/2003

On 1 March 2002, the Exchange introduced the XtraMarked as a marketplace for investment funds that are not listed on the stock market. The XtraMarked has got off to a good start, and in terms of turnover it now surpasses the stock market for investment funds, see the below figures. Compared with March 2002, the turnover on the XtraMarked has grown by 45 per cent to DKK 2.9 billion, corresponding to DKK 137 million per trading day.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Announces Date Of First Quarter Earnings Announcement, Conference Call

Date 10/04/2003

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) will announce earnings for the first quarter of 2003 before the financial markets open on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time (7:30 a.m. Central time).

Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchanges - Arbitration Program

Date 10/04/2003

The Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchanges (CASE), together with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), organized an arbitration program for the first time in the Middle East on March 16-17th 2003. The program highlighted the experiences of NYSE in securities arbitration and dispute resolution and the methods of introducing a dispute resolution mechanism in the Egyptian securities market.
Appointment Of Paul Chow As The Chief Executive Of HKEx

Date 10/04/2003

The board of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced today (Thursday) the appointment of Paul Chow as the chief executive of HKEx. Mr Chow will join HKEx on 1 May 2003. As provided under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO), Mr Chow will also be an ex-officio member of the board.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Improving The Condition Of Shareholder Voting And Preserving The

Date 09/04/2003

Improving the Condition of Shareholder Voting TSE has been a driving force in advancing the condition of shareholder voting at shareholders meetings in Japan. Recently, demands from a wide variety of shareholders - foreigners, institutional investors, and individual investors - have grown greater for reforming the condition of shareholder voting in Japanese companies, and with a view to increasing the vitality of the securities market TSE has made such reform an issue of utmost impor
The MICEX Exchange Council Adopts A New Version Of The Rules Of Purchase And Sale Of Foreign Currency In The UTS, Which Extends The UTS' Time And Introduces A New Instrument

Date 09/04/2003

The MICEX Exchange Council adopted on April 4, 2003, a new version of the Rules of purchase and sale of foreign currency in the Unified Trading Session of interbank currency exchanges (the UTS Rules) and documents amending the legal base of the MICEX currency market. Beginning from the middle of April, 2003, the UTS participants will be able to trade in a new instrument - "dollar/ruble" with tomorrow settlements (?+1). The time of the UTS will be 10:00 - 16:45 (now 10:00 - 11:30).
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 09/04/2003

Pursuant to quarterly rebalancing methodology, Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index effective after the close of trading on Thursday, April 17, 2003. As of the close of trading on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, the index was comprised of 497 companies. A total of 62 companies will be removed from the index and 88 new companies will be added. The revised index will therefore be made up of 523 companies.