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SGX To Provide Live Information On Securities Lending Pool On Website

Date 11/04/2002

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) today announced that live information on the securities lending pool will be accessible via the Internet from 15 April 2002. The information will be provided on the website of the Central Depository (CDP), the securities clearing and depository division of SGX, at www.cdp.com.sg.
SET Supports Training On Good Corporate Governance For Listed Companies And Brokers' Directors

Date 11/04/2002

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) offers support to directors of listed companies as well as brokers to allow them to receive training on the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of directors in order to build up a knowledge base on systems of good corporate governance. The SET will subsidize 75% of the training course fee or 37,500 baht per person for two directors of each company. To honor those directors who receive a Certificate of Completion, the SET will post a list of their name
Reaction To ASX Foreign Exempt Decision From NZSE

Date 11/04/2002

The ASX announced on Wednesday that it is to proceed with the amendments to its listing rules recorded in its exposure draft of 31 January. These amendments will increase (by a factor of 40 times in respect of net assets and 20 times in respect of annual profits) the size thresholds for companies to have foreign exempt listing on the ASX.
Program Trading Averaged 29.5 Percent Of NYSE Volume During April 1-April 5,2002

Date 11/04/2002

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for April 1-5, 2002.
PHLX Remote Competing Specialist System

Date 11/04/2002

With the introduction of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) Remote Competing Specialist System (RCSS), specialists and order flow providers are no longer tied to providing specialists liquidity and market depth from a central trading floor. PHLX specialists can now trade from remote sites through a sophisticated trading network.

NYBOT Announces The Appointment Of Charles H. Falk As Acting President And CEO

Date 11/04/2002

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT®) announced today the appointment of Charles H. Falk, NYBOT's Chairman, to the position of acting President and CEO, effective immediately. Mr. Falk replaces NYBOT's President and CEO Mark D. Fichtel.
NAGRON Nationaal Grondbezit In Next 150 Index. New Composition Next 150 Index

Date 11/04/2002

Following the official result of the takeover bid by the Spanish company Grupo Dragados for the Dutch company Hollandsche Beton Groep (Next 150), Hollandsche Beton Groep will be removed from the Next 150 Index.
Futures Trading At The Baltic Exchange

Date 11/04/2002

The Baltic Exchange, the world's leading shipping market, today (Thurs) launches its unique electronic system for the trading of forward freight agreements (FFAs).
CME's Globex® Electronic Trading Volume Rises To Record Levels As E-Mini S&P 500 Futures Volume Surpasses 400,000 Contracts

Date 11/04/2002

Trading volume on GLOBEX®, the electronic trading platform of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME), rose to record levels yesterday, April 10, with 726,567 contracts traded. This record surpasses the previous one set on March 6, of 704,711 contracts.
CBOE Publishes First Buy-Write Index, "BXM"

Date 11/04/2002

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that it began disseminating the CBOE BuyWrite Monthly Index, (BXM). The BXM is a benchmark index that measures potential returns of a theoretical portfolio of Standard & Poor's 500 Index stocks that also systematically sells S&P 500 Index call options (SPX) against the portfolio.