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  • SFE Receives New Offer From ASX

    Date 12/06/1999

    The Sydney Futures Exchange Limited (SFE) has today (June 11) received details of a revised "Merger Proposal" from the Australian Stock Exchange Limited. The SFE Board will meet to consider the revised terms next week. It will not be making any comment until after then at the earliest.

  • Minneapolis Grain Exchange Waives Trading Fees

    Date 12/06/1999

    Due to what is shaping up to be a financially promising fiscal year, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange will waive futures and options trading fees during July and August. In addition, local traders are exempt from clearing fees for the same time period. June trading volume in hard red spring wheat futures at the Exchange is currently on pace to establish a new monthly record. Record daily trading volume of 11,243 contracts was established in hard red spring wheat futures on June 3, 1999.

  • Ljubljana Stock Exchange turnover declines in May

    Date 12/06/1999

    The turnover of securities on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange declined in May for the second consecutive month and reached the amount of SIT14.1 billion compared to SIT17.1 billion in April. The total turnover on the Exchange in the first five months of this year amounted to SIT101.8 billion and outperformed the same period of the previous year by as much as 133% (the turnover in the same period in 1998 was SIT43.7 billion). Also in May, 59 block trades (versus 95 in April) were reported by the Exc

  • LIFFE to Launch FTSE EuroStars Index Futures and Options on June 29

    Date 12/06/1999

    LIFFE will launch the FTSE EuroStars Index Futures and Options contracts on June 29. These contracts are based on the FTSE EuroStars Index calculated by FTSE International Ltd. The futures contract will be listed on LIFFE CONNECT™ for Financial Futures (version 2.0) and the option contracts will be listed on LIFFE CONNECT™ for Equity Options (version 1.0).

  • Kansas City Board of Trade launches natural gas index futures

    Date 12/06/1999

    The Kansas City Board of Trade launched natural gas index price futures on June 8, offering the industry an alternative pricing mechanism for hedging. KCBT western natural gas index price futures will be settled to the Inside FERC West Texas-Waha Index price, rather than to the existing KCBT western natural gas futures flat price. The new index pricing mechanism eliminates the index risk in the existing flat price contract, providing an effective hedge for physical and over-the-counter gas trad

  • Hong Kong Futures Exchange Volume Rises in May

    Date 12/06/1999

    A total of 510,467 futures contracts were traded on the Hong Kong Futures Exchange in May compared to 505,056 in April. Options volume declined in May with 63,409 contracts traded compared to 70,452 contracts in April. The year-to-date (January to May) volume was 2,717,780 futures contracts, a decline of 11.2 per cent, compared to the same period last year. Year-to-date options volume rose by 11.6 per cent compared to last year with 363,910 contracts traded.

  • Deutsche Börse Establishing Energy Exchange in Partnership with Eurex and Nymex

    Date 12/06/1999

    Deutsche Börse has welcomed the German energy sector's decision to establish an energy exchange in Germany. The representatives of the energy sector had come out in favour of having the German Energy Exchange initiative supported by Deutsche Börse, Eurex and NYMEX develop and set up this new exchange. "We have excellent prerequisites for the expedient realisation of an electricity futures exchange as the first step towards a European energy exchange," was Deutsche Börse's reaction to the decisio

  • Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

    Date 12/06/1999

    A sideways move in the market was observed this week with the index down less than 0.1% from its previous week's close. BIHL rose 25t to yet another all-time high of P10.40 on 2,617 shares, the second time in three weeks it has done so. FNBB gave up P1.00 on rather thin volume of only 500 shares to trade at P18.00. Inco enjoyed good gains during the week when it picked 10t to 235t on Monday and closed the week a further 5t up to 240t. The stock rallied on the back of the company's excellent full

  • The Toronto Stock Exchange Notice To Listed Issuers

    Date 11/06/1999

    The Toronto Stock Exchange reminds listed companies that they are expected to conform to best practices in complying with its Timely Disclosure Policy (the "Policy"). In particular, the Exchange is reinforcing its Policy that, where the market is being unduly influenced by rumours that are true in whole or in part, immediate disclosure by the listed company of the relevant material information is required. "It is a cornerstone policy of the Exchange that all persons investing in securities lis

  • SFE 3-Year Bonds Set New Record

    Date 11/06/1999

    Trading activity in the Sydney Futures Exchange's (SFE) most heavily traded contract, 3-Year Bonds, rallied to new heights on June 10. Spurred by June to September rollover activity, the announcement of domestic unemployment figures and an overnight rise in US Long Bond yields, the volume of 3-Year Bond contracts traded surged to 171,572, representing a face value of A$17.1 billion. The previous highest mark of 143,479 contracts traded was set on 12 June 1998.

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