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CBOT Fed Watch

Date 04/12/2002

In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on December 10, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.

CBOT Fed Watch

Date 04/12/2002

In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on December 10, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.

Baltic Exchange Helps Shipbrokers And Owners Find Port Agents

Date 04/12/2002

The Baltic Exchange has launched a free service to help shipbrokers and owners locate port agents around the world.

Alabama National BanCorporation To Join NASDAQ Financial-100 Index Beginning December 10, 2002

Date 04/12/2002

Alabama National BanCorporation (NASDAQ:ALAB) of Birmingham, Alabama, will become a component of the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index®, effective at the beginning of trading Tuesday, December 10, 2002. Alabama National BanCorporation will replace Interactive Data Corporation (NASDAQ:IDCO).

Tokyo Stock Exchange Position Limits

Date 03/12/2002

Neither a trading participant (for its own account) nor a customer may hold an aggregate position in contract units on an Equity Option in excess of such number of contracts units having shares of underlying stock equal to following amounts of combining short positions in put options with long positions in call options of the same underlying stock or combining long positions in put options with short positions in call options of the same underlying stock.

Thailand Securities Depository To Adjust Collection Rate For Damage Compensation Fund To Reflect Members Level Of Risk

Date 03/12/2002

The President of the Thailand Securities Depository Co., Ms. Nongram Wongwanich, has announced that the TSD Board passed a resolution to amend the regulations covering monthly fees collected jointly from members for the Damage Compensation Fund. There will be an additional condition stating that a special collection rate will be imposed on specific members if there is any damage caused to the system. A special rate will be also imposed to those members who trade derivative warrants and cause dam

SWX Swiss Exchange: Key Figures November 2002

Date 03/12/2002

SWX Products Turnover (CHF m) Change versus previous month (%) Change versus previous year (%) Transactions Equities* including Funds 57,321 -31.4

Stock Exchange Of Thailand: November Turnover Value Up On Previous Month With More Than One Billion Baht Traded

Date 03/12/2002

The Stock Exchange of Thailand reported that the trading value in November (excluded the MAI) was recorded at 145,804.02 million baht, which is 19,629.64 million baht higher than that in October - a raise of 15.56 %. The value of average daily turnover was recorded at 6,943.05 million baht and total market turnover at 18,971.16 million shares in volume. The SET Index closed on November 29 at 364.90, up by 7.68 points or 2.15% from October 2002 (which closed at 357.22).

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 03/12/2002

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: After the close of trading on Tuesday, December 3, 2002, VisuaLABS Inc. (TSXVN:VLI) will change its name to Pretium Industries Inc. The new ticker symbol will be PI and the new CUSIP number will be 74138L 10 3. There is no consolidation of capital.

Singapore Exchange: 67.7% Of CLOB Shareholdings To Be Migrated Under CLOB Scheme B

Date 03/12/2002

Singapore Exchange today announced that as at 2 December 2002, The Central Depository (CDP) has received authorisation from 4,835 CLOB investors to migrate their CLOB Malaysian securities to their own Malaysian securities account under CLOB Scheme B.