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  • Winnipeg Commodity Exchange: Potential Opportunities In March Canola Options

    Date 06/12/2001

    Implied volatility at the daily close of trade for the at-the-money March 02 canola options has ranged between a high of 22.4% and a low of 16.0% since August 2001. During the same period, the underlying canola futures historical volatility (standardized to 20 trading days) has ranged from a high of 21.3% to a low of 8.4%. Both the implied and underlying historical volatility ended the month well within the ranges seen in the previous two years at 17.1% and 16.6% respectively.

  • Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Total Canola Futures And Options Volumes Surpass Year Ago Totals

    Date 06/12/2001

    Activity in canola futures pit trade was higher for the month of November, up 21.1% to 164,930 contracts, compared to the 136,232 contracts attained in November 2000. As well, crop and calendar year-to-date volumes were up 7.4% and 28.4% respectively, over the same period a year ago. Open interest levels in canola futures on November 30, 2001 were 8.8% higher than the same date in 2000.

  • Trading Volumes Rise In November - Euronext N.V. Key Indicators

    Date 06/12/2001

    Equities Trading volumes rise in November Equity trading through Euronext NV orderbooks totalled €141.31 billion in November, up 2.5% from October. Average daily trading volume was up 7.4%.

  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/CDNX Composite Index

    Date 06/12/2001

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following changes to the S&P/CDNX Composite Index prior to its launch on Monday, December 10, 2001. A constituent list containing 545 companies eligible for inclusion in the index was made public on November 7, 2001. According to index methodology, companies are removed from the index if they are delisted from the CDNX or moved to another exchange.

  • SEC Commissioner Laura S. Unger Releases Report, Recommends Improvements To Regulation FD

    Date 06/12/2001

    Commissioner Laura S. Unger of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a report examining the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure on the marketplace. In effect since October 2000, the Commission adopted Regulation FD to end issuers selectively disclosing important or "material" company information to analysts. Reviewing Regulation FD's first year, the report, "Regulation FD Revisited," makes certain findings and recommendations based on an April SEC Roundtable and industry surv