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  • Nasdaq Experiences System Interruption Prior To Close

    Date 29/11/2000

    The Nasdaq Stock Market® today said that at about 3:40 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), the Nasdaq quote engine failed to allow Market Makers to update and view quotes. In response to this, Nasdaq suspended the Small Order Execution System (SOES) and SelectNet at about 3:49 p.m. The Nasdaq quote engine was restored incrementally just before 4:00 p.m., so most Market Makers were not able to view and update quotes until shortly after the market closed. The cause of the quote outage is currently under inves

  • Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange T+3 Begins Wednesday 20 December 2000

    Date 29/11/2000

    Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), in consultation with the Securities Commission has set Wednesday, 20 December 2000 to begin the T+3 delivery and settlement period.

  • HKSCC Registrars’ Name Changed To Hong Kong Registrars

    Date 29/11/2000

    The name of HKSCC Registrars Limited has been changed to Hong Kong Registrars Limited.

  • CME Nasdaq 100, E-mini Nasdaq 100 Futures Set Open Interest Records

    Date 29/11/2000

    Open interest in Nasdaq 100 Index and E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. rose to new highs on a volatile trading day yesterday, totaling 48,698 in the standard-sized contract and 69,550 in the E-mini version.

  • CBOT Approved Revisions to Corn, Soybean Futures

    Date 29/11/2000

    The Chicago Board of Trade Board of Directors and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have approved the following changes in regulations regarding corn and soybean futures:

  • World First Wine Market To Trade Through Newcastle Stock Exchange

    Date 28/11/2000

    The Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited (NSX) has reached an in principle agreement with the Australian Wine Exchange Pty Ltd (AWX) for the trading of AWX listed wine securities.

  • Sydney Futures Exchange: Growth In Futures Trading

    Date 28/11/2000

    The number of contracts traded at the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) in 1999-2000 rose by 4.3% to 31.27 million futures and options contracts, according to the 2000 Australian Financial Markets Report (AFMR) published today. AFMR shows that futures turnover grew by 4.1% and options turnover by 7.1%. The total value of trading at SFE in 1999-2000 amounted to A$10,309 billion, a 1.3% increase on the previous year.

  • Euronext Amsterdam: Hal Trust New Entry In Next 150 Index

    Date 28/11/2000

    Euronext Indices B.V. today announced that following the official result of the takeover bid by Nine Telecom Reseau for French company Jet Multimedia, Jet Multimedia will be deleted from the Next 150 index with effect from 30 November 2000, in accordance with rule 6.3.3 of the index ground rules.

  • The Nasdaq Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks For November 2000

    Date 27/11/2000

    As of mid-November, short interest in 3,866 Nasdaq National Market® securities totaled 3,331,693,195 compared with 3,330,417,900 shares in 3,863 National Market issues for the month of October.

  • NOREX Alliance Adopts New Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS)

    Date 27/11/2000

    OM Stockholm Exchange, Oslo Bors, Copenhagen Stock Exchange and MSCI are pleased to announce that the exchanges will adopt a new industry classification, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) developed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's.