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  • CME Contract Specifications Changes: Russian Ruble Contract Changes

    Date 29/08/2000

    The CME Contract Specifications pages on the CME's Web site have been updated to reflect the following: Effective on Monday, August 28, the September and December Russian Rubles Futures contracts commodity codes change to R2. All other contract specifications will remain the same.

  • CBOT, Eurex Successfully Launch a/c/e--alliance/cbot/eurex

    Date 29/08/2000

    The Chicago Board of Trade and Eurex yesterday announced that their joint venture a/c/e, alliance/cbot/eurex successfully launched its new electronic trading platform as scheduled at 10:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on Sunday. Initial trading volume met expectations for the launch phase, as CBOT® members participated in trading from the U.S., Germany, France, United Kingdom and Japan.

  • Board of the London Stock Exchange Rejection Of Offer From OM Gruppen

    Date 29/08/2000

    The Board of the London Stock Exchange ("LSE") notes the announcement this morning of an offer by OM Gruppen AB ("OM") for the LSE. Today's offer by OM is in line with their original approach last Thursday which the LSE Board had no hesitation in rejecting.

  • AT&T Latin America Lists On Nasdaq - Listing Follows Yesterday’s Merger With formerly Nasdaq-Listed FirstCom

    Date 29/08/2000

    AT&T Latin America will begin trading today on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the symbol ATTL. The Coral Gables, Florida-based company, resulting from the merger of FirstCom Corporation with AT&T Latin America Corp., is the most recent addition to a growing list of new issues that have joined Nasdaq. "We are proud to add AT&T Latin America to our family of companies on Nasdaq," said Frank Zarb, Chairman and CEO, Nasdaq. "We believe that the strategy, vision, and growth prospects of AT&T Latin

  • All Toronto Stock Exchange Participating Organizations Select Gateway-Compatible Trading Devices

    Date 29/08/2000

    In August 1999, the Toronto Stock Exchange announced it was not pursuing the trading station business. At that time, Participating Organizations were notified that they would have approximately a year to select a supplier to provide them with a trading terminal that would allow them to enter trades and access the TSE in a simple manner, through the TSE's gateway. The TSE is pleased to report that all Participating Organizations have now selected their suppliers and the process of transitionin

  • a/c/e Electronic Trading Hours for Tuesday, August 29

    Date 29/08/2000

    In accordance with the established launch plan for the a/c/e/ (CBOT®/Eurex Alliance) electronic trading platform, modified electronic trading hours will be in effect only for the business day Tuesday, August 29, 2000 as follows. (All times shown are Central Time.) Tuesday, August 29, 2000 (only)

  • Nymex Selects Andersen Consulting As enymex Program Manager And Integrator

    Date 28/08/2000

    The New York Mercantile Exchange today announced that it has selected Andersen Consulting, a leading global management and technology consulting firm, to act as the program manager and integrator for enymex(SM), the Exchange’s new internet venture.

  • Hong Kong Futures Exchange To Introduce Mini-HSI Futures On 9 October

    Date 28/08/2000

    The Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) announced yesterday that Mini-Hang Seng Index (Mini-HSI) Futures will be introduced for trading on Monday, 9 October.

  • Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

    Date 28/08/2000

    The market touched a record high of 1575.12 points in midweek, on the back of gains by Barclays and RPC Data. However, losses in four other counters at the end of the week reduced the gain over the previous week to 0.6%.

  • Botswana Stock Exchange Listed Company News

    Date 28/08/2000

    Pep reported poor full year results for the 12 months to June 30th 2000. Although turnover rose 10% to P78.1m, operating profit went down 27% from P12.4m to P9.1m. The decline in operating margins from 17.4% to 11.6% has been attributed to increased distribution costs and a stock markdown campaign. The company also says that unexpectedly high stock losses were incurred. An increase in the tax charge this year (last year lower because of utilisation of the withholding tax on the high dividends to