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

Date 11/06/2002

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: Effective after the close on Wednesday, June 12, 2002, Campion Resources Ltd. (TSX:CPR) will be delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange. All the shares of the company have been acquired by Progress Energy Ltd.
Palestine Securities Exchange Trading On June 11 Cancelled

Date 11/06/2002

The trading session of today Tuesday the 11th of June 2002 will be cancelled due to the continuous siege and curfew on the city of Ramallah which was imposed by the Israeli army. The settlement bank and a number of brokerage firms are forced to close.
HKEx: New Educational Article Examines ETFs As An Investment And Hedging Tool

Date 11/06/2002

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are the focus of a new educational article by Dr. Louis T.W. Cheng, an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Mr. Kevin Cheng, Vice President, Market Development and Education in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited's (HKEx) Exchange Business Unit.
HKEx Clarifies Misunderstanding On The Regulation Of Listed Companies

Date 11/06/2002

In response to media enquiries, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has issued the following statement.
Euronext Paris Today Opened Trading In New Equity Options On Arcelor

Date 11/06/2002

Euronext Paris today opened trading in new options on the shares of Arcelor. These include:

Eurex To Harmonise Trading Hours For Index Products - Twenty Five Percent Of Eurex Benchmark Products Are Traded From The USA

Date 11/06/2002

Eurex the world's largest international derivatives market announced that as of June 17 it is to harmonise trading hours for futures on the STOXX 50 Index as well as the sector indices STOXX Banks and Euro STOXX Banks with the 20:00 close for Euro STOXX benchmark futures. This means that all STOXX futures accepted for trading in the USA will be tradable until 20:00.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: Focus: The Labour Market - The Achilles' Heal Of The Recovery

Date 11/06/2002

In issue no. 19 of Focus, chief economist John Madsen, Nykredit Markets, writes about the outlook for Danish economy.
CME's Electronically Traded Foreign Exchange Futures Volume Surpasses 50,000 Mark

Date 11/06/2002

Electronic trading volume in foreign exchange (FX) products traded on GLOBEX®, the electronic trading platform of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), broke the 50,000 mark for the first time yesterday, June 10, with 50,074 contracts traded, surpassing the previous record of 48,540 contracts set on May 17.
New Eurex Software Release 5.1 Launched Successfully - Eurex Clearing Provides A New, Intra-Day Risk Information Service - Product-specific Upper Limits And An Extended Price Plausibility Check Added

Date 10/06/2002

On Monday, the international derivatives exchange Eurex announced the successful launch of its new clearing software. According to a recent press release, the new Eurex software release 5.1 went live for 430 participants from 17 different countries at the end of May. At the heart of the new Eurex software is the so-called intra-day risk information service tool with which users can call up the latest risk data of relevance to their positions at any time during the trading day. The new service is
Malaysia Derivatives Exchange: Eligible Malaysian Government Securities For FMG5 September 2002 Contract

Date 10/06/2002

The Malaysia Derivatives Exchange Berhad (MDEX) is proud to announce the eligible basket of Malaysian Government Securities (MGS) for the September 2002 contract of MGS futures (or FMG5). This contract expires on September 18, 2002.