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BrokerTec Clearing Company Delivery Dates for September 2002 Contracts

Date 28/08/2002

Listed below are the delivery dates for the BrokerTec Futures Exchange (BTEX) September 2002 contracts. BTEX Contract

ASX Results For The Full Year Ended 30 June 2002 - Announces A Record Full-Year Profit Of $59.1 Million

Date 28/08/2002

SUMMARY Record profit of $59.1 million, an increase of 15.9% Record revenue of $205.1 million, an increase of 6.5% Earnings of 60.9 cents per share (pre goodwill) Final dividend of 21.1 cents per share fully franked Increase in the level of trading activity for all products.

ASX Corporate Governance Statement

Date 28/08/2002

ASX's board and management are committed to conducting the company's business ethically and in a way that is open and accountable to shareholders and the wider marketplace. We believe our corporate governance practices as a listed company are appropriately rigorous and of a high standard. We also accept that we have a leadership role in setting and articulating corporate governance standards in Australia. We believe that the general level of corporate governance practice in Australia is at

Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange: Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 30 August 2002

Date 27/08/2002

TIFFE announced that trading for all contracts starts at 8:45am(JST) on 30 August 2002, responding to the release of a preliminary report and a GDP figure on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am. Normal trading starts at 9:00am on TIFFE, but trading starts 15 minutes earlier at 8:45am on the announcement days of BOJ's TANKAN report, BOJ's Outlook and Risk Assessment of the Economy and Prices, a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production and a GDP figure.

The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks For July 2002

Date 27/08/2002

As of mid-August, short interest in 3,068 NASDAQ National Market® securities totaled 4,028,597,671 shares compared with 4,258,651,801* shares in 3,115 National Market issues for the month of July.

Nymex To Extend Exchange Of Options For Options Transactions In Energy Markets

Date 27/08/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange announced yesterday that it will extend its exchange of options for options (EOO) program in its energy markets for an additional 30 days.

NASDAQ.com Redesigned To Deliver Greater Personalized Information and Services To Individual Investors

Date 27/08/2002

The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ) this week unveiled its redesigned consumer Web site, NASDAQ.com. The new site offers users a strong array of new personalized content and features, while enhancing the visibility and highlighting the unique attributes of NASDAQ-listed companies to existing and potential investors.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board Of Trade Settle Wagner Patent Litigation

Date 27/08/2002

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that they have reached a settlement agreement to resolve the litigation with eSpeed, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESPD), a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald. The litigation is related to the Wagner patent on automated futures trading systems (United States patent No. 4,903,201).

CBOT® Re-Appoints Weems As Non-Member Director

Date 27/08/2002

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) yesterday announced the re-appointment of Ralph W. Weems, a past Chairman and President of the American Soybean Association (ASA) and longtime soybean farmer, as a non-member Public Director of the exchange. Weems will serve in this position on an interim basis, pending the next CBOT annual election.

TSX Remembers Victims Of September 11th

Date 26/08/2002

On Wednesday, September 11th, 2002 the TSX Group will hold a brief remembrance ceremony in Stock Market Place for the 25 Canadians who were reported dead following the terrorist attacks on New York City & Washington last year. Many of these Canadians were employed in the financial sector.