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Eurex To Launch Options On Dow Jones Euro STOXX SM Sector Indexes - Four New Option Contracts Added To Dow Jones STOXX Product Family

Date 16/08/2001

On September 24, Eurex, the international derivatives market, is launching four new option contracts on the sector indexes Banks, Technology, Telecommunications and Healthcare of the Dow Jones Euro STOXX SM. The derivatives exchange already introduced eight futures on these sectors for the Dow Jones Euro STOXX SM and Dow Jones STOXX SM 600 sector indexes on March 19. Market makers will also provide for underlying liquidity in the new products.
Deutsche Börse Launches Trading In U.S. Stocks On Xetra On September 14 - U.S. Market Experts Provide For Liquidity In The "Xetra US Stars" - Dow Jones Will Calculate Dow Jones Industrial Average From Xetra Prices

Date 16/08/2001

Deutsche Börse will start trading U.S. stocks in euros on September 14. The new segment will contain all of the U.S. stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 100, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Global Titans 50, the so-called "Xetra US Stars". The total of some 200 U.S. stocks can be traded on Xetra just as easily, quickly and cost-effectively as German blue chips. This optimizes the quality of trading in U.S. equities for private and institutional investors, and the costs are reduced to the l
CME Sets New Single-Day Volume Record For Currency Trading On GLOBEX®2 Electronic System

Date 16/08/2001

Electronic trading of currency futures at Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) rose to a new single-day volume record of 25,314 contracts yesterday, August 15. The previous single-day currency volume record for electronic trading on CME's GLOBEX®2 system was set June 12 at 23,123 contracts. Yesterday's total currency volume reached 150,591 contracts.
CBOE Trading Schedule For Labor Day Holiday

Date 16/08/2001

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced the following trading schedule in observance of the Labor Day holiday:
CBOE MNX(sm) Sets Single-Day Volume Record

Date 16/08/2001

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) celebrated the one-year anniversary of trading the CBOE Mini-NDX (symbol MNXSM) with record setting volume. A single-day volume record in the Nasdaq-100 Index, MNXSM, was established today with an estimated 86,853 contracts trading. The MNX was launched on August 14, 2000 as an exclusive CBOE product.

Stockholmbörsen And Oslo Børs To Co-operate On Market Surveillance

Date 15/08/2001

Oslo Børs and Stockholmsbörsen have signed a Letter of Intent for the further development of the Oslo Børs market surveillance product obSurveX.
SGX Press Statement - Fair Settlement Price And Settlement Procedures Of Links Island Shares

Date 15/08/2001

Several letters have appeared in the newspapers following the exchange's announcement in respect of Links Island Holdings Ltd of a "fair settlement" price, and settlement procedures for outstanding share transactions made on 14, 15 and 16 August 2000.
Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For July 2001

Date 15/08/2001

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 1,692.4 points at the end of July, an increase of 7.3 points from the closing value at the end of June.
HKFE Revises Margins for Stock Futures

Date 15/08/2001

Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), announced today (Wednesday) that with effect from the commencement of trading on Friday, 17 August 2001, the minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in the following futures contracts will be as outlined in the table below. The adjustments are the result of a regular review of market conditions and are based on the clea
Deutsche Börse Posts Further Increases In Second Quarter - 23 Percent Increase In Sales Against Previous Year - 19 Percent Growth In Earnings (EBIT)

Date 15/08/2001

Deutsche Börse AG posted another substantial increase in sales and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) during the second quarter of the current fiscal year. On Wednesday, the company reported that sales during the second quarter had increased 23 percent to 182.9 million euros, compared with the second quarter of 2000. The EBIT of 70.3 million euros is 19 percent higher than the second-quarter performance last year. For the first half of 2001, sales of 374.6 million euros and EBIT of 160.