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CBOT Fed Watch

Date 17/09/2002

Based upon the September 17th market close, the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract for the October 2002 expiration is currently pricing in a 10 percent probability that the FOMC will lower the target rate by at least 25 basis points from 1-3/4 percent to 1-1/2 percent at the FOMC meeting on September 24 (versus a 90 percent probability of no rate change).
ASX Set To List Absolute Return Funds

Date 17/09/2002

Australian investors will soon have access to locally listed Absolute Return Funds - more commonly known as Hedge Funds - enabling them to be traded on the ASX in the same manner as ordinary shares of listed companies.
Singapore Exchange To Launch World's First DRAM Futures In First Quarter 2003

Date 16/09/2002

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) today announced its plan to offer a futures contract based on Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips by the first quarter of 2003.
S&P/TSX Canadian Indices - S&P/TSX Composite Index Quarterly Review Delayed

Date 16/09/2002

Standard & Poor's wishes to announce that, pending verification of certain data items, the results of the S&P/TSX Composite Index Quarterly Review will be delayed. The Quarterly Share Update of index constituents will be released on schedule at the close of Wednesday, September 18, 2002 with effect after the close on Friday, September 20, 2002.
Russian Trading System: Weekly Market Information

Date 16/09/2002

For the week of September 9th - September 13th, 2002, the RTS Index increased 0.49% and closed at 337.11. The RTS Technical Index shed 0.12% and totaled 370.75.

Russian Trading System Bonds: Weekly Market Information

Date 16/09/2002

For the week of September 9th-September 13th, 2002, the total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, reached 658.8 thousand US dollars, compared to last week's 1.6 million dollars. The number of trades equalled 7.
Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For July 2002

Date 16/09/2002

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 2,199.9 points at the end of July, a decrease of 25.8 points from the closing value at the end of June. The weighted index reached 160.62 points at the end of July, a decrease of 3.55 points from the closing value at the end of June.
Futures & Options On Russian Trading System: Weekly Market Information

Date 16/09/2002

For the week of September 9th-September 13th, 2002, the total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on RTS) reached 477.5 thousand contracts or 1 562 million rubles in underlying value. This represents a 6% increase over last week's volume of 450.6 thousand contracts - or a 9.3% increase over last week's 1 429 million rubles in underlying value. The number of trades executed rose 1.2%, from 11 769 to 11 911.
FTSE4Good Increases Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure

Date 16/09/2002

FTSE4Good, the socially responsible investment (SRI) index series created by FTSE Group, continues to encourage corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. An additional 51 companies worldwide have engaged with FTSE Group to disclose details of their CSR policies and have been added to the series.
CME E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Surpass 400,000 Open Interest Mark

Date 16/09/2002

Open interest in E-miniTM S&P 500 futures reached record levels for the second consecutive session on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Friday, Sept. 13, with 422,816 positions. Friday marked the first time open interest in the product surpassed 400,000 positions, and represented an increase of nearly 23,000 positions over the previous record of 399,859 positions set on Sept. 12.