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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited: Local Retail Investors Remain The Largest Contributors To Stock Market Turnover

Date 18/01/2001

A recent survey carried out by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) shows that local retail investors remain the largest contributors to trading activities in the Hong Kong stock market. Their share in total market turnover increased from 45 per cent in the 12 months to September 1999 to 49 per cent for the same period in 2000. The remainder is shared among overseas institutional investors (28%), local institutional investors (18%), principal trading by stockbrokers (3%) and oversea
Euronext Amsterdam Expands Trading Capacity Of TSA

Date 18/01/2001

The number of securities transactions grew last year by 61% compared to 1999, and the average number of transactions per day in 2000 amounted to 96,000. These enormous volumes were enough to use up almost all of the reserve processing capacity of Trading System Amsterdam (TSA). For this reason, the decision was taken to expand TSA’s reserve processing capacity by 50% for as long as this system remains in use. This expansion was successfully completed today.
CBOT Volume On a/c/e Sets New Daily Record At 194,358 Contracts - Volume Since System’s Launch Surpasses 10,000,000

Date 18/01/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade announced its members set a new daily volume record on January 17, 2001 at 194,358 contracts traded on its electronic trading platform, a/c/e, breaking the former high of 183,985 contracts set on November 8, 2000.
CBOT April Agricultural Serial Options Begin Trading Jan. 22, 2001

Date 18/01/2001

April agricultural serial options on wheat, corn, oats, soybean, soybean meal, soybean oil, and rice futures will trade from January 22, 2001 to March 23, 2001. For additional information please contact Susan Sutherland in the Market and Product Development Department at +1 312-435-3779.
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Revision To Deadlines Of DVP Settlement

Date 17/01/2001

From the point of smooth transition to DVP settlement system preventing failed settlement as much as possible, deadlines of DVP settlement described in the Summary of DVP settlement published on 16 June 1998 have been moved to later time.

The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Limited Annual Reports And/Or Interim Reports

Date 17/01/2001

Listed issuers may apply for a waiver for deviation from Paragraphs 8 and 10 of the Main Board Listing Agreement and Rules 18.03 and 18.54 of the GEM Listing Rules requiring the sending out of both English and Chinese versions of Annual and/or Interim Reports to members and holders of their listed securities subject to complying with certain conditions to be imposed.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sets New Annual Equity And Options Volume Records

Date 17/01/2001

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that equity options for the month of December 2000 reached 8,599,848 contracts traded, a 102 percent increase over the same month last year when 4,261,170 contracts changed hands. In addition, year-to-date equity options volume set a new record of 72,135,321 contracts traded. This represents a 64 percent increase over the first 12 months of 1999, the previous record year, when 44,086,183 contracts traded.
Standard & Poor's – Index Change TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector And TSE 100 Indices

Date 17/01/2001

Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Thursday, January 18, 2001, the following changes will take place in the TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector and TSE 100 Indices.
Standard & Poor’s – Index Change TSE 300 Annual Revision Process

Date 17/01/2001

Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces the following change to the TSE 300 annual revision process. Candidates for addition to or deletion from the index will be assessed on the basis of the February month end float adjusted market value calculated using the February trade weighted average price. In the past, the market value of index candidates was calculated on the basis of their trailing 12-month trade-weighted average price.
SEC Adopts Rule Prohibiting Misleading Mutual Fund Names

Date 17/01/2001

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has adopted a new rule to prohibit the use of mutual fund names that may mislead investors about a fund's investments and risks. The rule requires that a mutual fund with a name suggesting that it focuses on a particular type of investment invest at least 80% of its assets in accordance with its name. The text of the rule will be available on the Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov/rules/finrindx.htm.