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CME Acquires Liquidity Direct Technology, LLC - New Options And Spread Trading Technology Will Enhance GLOBEX® Eurodollar Options And Other CME Options Markets

Date 12/01/2004

To further provide market users with innovative technology solutions to support their electronic trading needs, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) today announced the acquisition of Liquidity Direct Technology, LLC, a privately held trading technology firm founded in 2000 by a number of options industry participants. Liquidity Direct has developed an innovative patent-pending technology to effectively facilitate trading of the complex combinations and spreads typically used with options pro
CFTC Staff Allows Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited's Futures Contract Based On The Standard and Poors CNX Nifty Index To Be Offered And Sold In The United States

Date 12/01/2004

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC's) Office of General Counsel issued a no-action letter on January 7, 2004, permitting the offer and sale of the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited's (SGX-DT's) futures contract based on the Standard and Poors CNX Nifty Index (S&P CNX Nifty) in the United States.
CBOT Starts New Year Strong - Volume Surpasses Five Million In First Full Week On New Electronic Platform

Date 12/01/2004

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) completed a strong and successful first full week of trading all CBOT contracts on the exchange's new electronic platform, with the week's volume totaling 5,025,157 contracts.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 11/01/2004

The market came back to life with the end of the silly season but with very little direction.
USDA BSE Update - January 9, 2004

Date 10/01/2004

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has submitted three rules and one notice for publication in the Federal Register on Monday, January 12, 2003. The rules and notice are: An interim final rule declaring that the Specified Risk Materials, the skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, vertebral column, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age or older, and the small intestine of all cattle are prohibited in the food supply. (Tonsils were already excluded)

RTS Stock Exchange Index Calculation Methodology Changes

Date 09/01/2004

At its December 19th, 2003, meeting the RTS Board of Directors has approved the new method of the RTS Index Calculation that will take effect as of January 5th, 2004. The new methodology specifies criteria for selecting transactions used in Index calculation.
Official Start Of The Internet SEM-ON.NET Portal Of The South-Eastern Europe Stock Exchanges

Date 09/01/2004

On Tuesday, 7th October 2003, the Ljubljana Stock Exchange witnessed the inauguration of the new sem-on.net internet portal established as part of the Information Integration of the Stock Exchanges of SE Europe Project, by the Ljubljana Stock Exchange. A three-year venture starting in 2002 is being implemented within the European Stability Pact, and focuses on the creation of organisation and infrastructure to enable informing and collecting of information about the capital markets on the region
NYBOT Sets All-Time Total Volume Record In 2003 - Highest Annual Volume In The Exchange's 134-Year History

Date 09/01/2004

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) topped off an unparalleled year of historic achievements by setting a new annual trading standard, the largest ever total annual futures and options volume in the exchanges' 134-year history. The 24,832,158 combined futures and options contracts traded in 2003 far surpass the previous all-time record of 21,477,856 contracts set in 1999. In addition to record volumes, the exchange in 2003 built an entirely new trading floor and moved its operations to a new h
London Stock Exchange Monthly Market Report For December 2003 - Strong December For SETS Trades

Date 09/01/2004

The number of trades on SETS™, the London Stock Exchange's electronic order book, increased to 2.67 million (of which 131,884 were trades on SETSmm™) in December 2003, a rise of 35 per cent on the number of trades in December 2002. The value traded on SETS during the month was £53.2 billion (of which £1.6 billion was for trades on SETSmm), up from £40.2 billion in December 2002. The average daily number of trades on SETS was 127,224 up from 98,718 in December 2002.
Instinet Announces Stock Migration Schedule

Date 09/01/2004

Instinet Group Incorporated (NASDAQ: INGP) today announced the implementation schedule for the rollout of securities that will complete the on-going consolidation of Instinet ECN and Island ECN books into a single liquidity pool branded INET. As a result, customers of Instinet, the Institutional Broker, will have the ability to trade these securities on the company's Continuous Block Crossing (CBX) and Proactive SmartRouter Technology.