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  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Signs Agreement with Euronext-Paris To Settle Dispute Related To Wagner Patent

    Date 03/01/2003

    Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) today announced that its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., has signed an agreement to resolve an indemnification dispute with Euronext-Paris S.A related to CME's $15 million settlement in August 2002 of the Wagner patent litigation. Under the agreement, Euronext will pay CME U.S. $7.5 million, half of CME's settlement with eSpeed.

  • CBOE Records Third Highest Annual Volume In Its History During 2002

    Date 03/01/2003

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, concluded 2002 with total exchange-wide volume of 267,616,496 contracts (148,509,384 calls and 119,107,112 puts) traded, representing the third highest annual volume total in the twenty-nine year history of the Exchange. 2000 and 2001 were the highest and second highest volume years respectively at CBOE. Total exchange-wide volume in 2002 was down 13% from the 2001 total of 306,667,851 contracts. Average daily volum

  • 2002 - A Successful Year For The Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE)

    Date 03/01/2003

    From the point of view of the capital market in Slovenia, the year of 2002 was undoubtedly a very important one. Some of the paramount events of the year were the takeover of the Lek pharmaceutical company, the record high of the SBI 20 Index and the record yearly turnover of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange. Moreover, LJSE continued to apply its technology to other Exchanges of the south-eastern Europe, and launched its own electronic information dissemination system - SEOnet. Less than a year late

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Takes Forward Sandler 'Lighter-Touch' Regulation Proposals

    Date 02/01/2003

    The Financial Services Authority has outlined three broad options for introducing lighter-touch regulation for face-to-face and telephone selling of a simplified suite of investment products. These products, as recommended in the Sandler report of July 2002, would have specifications set by the Treasury to ensure simplicity and control investment risks. They would be aimed at making long-term savings more accessible to lower-income customers.

  • Toronto Stock Exchange Statistics For The Month Of December 2002

    Date 02/01/2003

    To view a summary of market statistics for December 2002 for the Toronto Stock Exchange, please click here.