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  • CME Board Approves Net Margining For Clearing Firms

    Date 07/05/1999

    In the continuing implementation of its strategic planning initiatives announced last fall, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Board of Directors has approved a measure to change margin requirements for the house accounts of clearing member firms from a gross margin to a net margin basis, beginning this month. Under the net margining program all "house origin" accounts of the clearing firm - including its proprietary positions and the accounts of its affiliates, employees and directors - wil

  • CME Appoints Rahm Emanuel to Board

    Date 07/05/1999

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has appointed Rahm Emanuel to a two-year term on the CME Board of Directors. Emanuel, Managing Director of the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., had served as Senior Adviser to the President for Policy and Strategy in the Clinton Administration. "As a close adviser to the President during the most extensive economic expansion in U.S. history, Rahm Emanuel has demonstrated an understanding of financial, strategic and global issues that

  • Cantor Fitzgerald International New Member of MONEP

    Date 07/05/1999

    The Paris branch of Cantor Fitzgerald International has become a member of MONEP with the status of Broker dealer on index futures and options. This new membership brings the total number of MONEP members to 114 compared to 87 in April 1998.

  • Botswana Stock Exchange Weekly Market Commentary

    Date 07/05/1999

    The market rose 2.6% during the week to close at 971.83. Liquidity appears to be returning to the Botswana Stock Exchange as foreign interest in the listed stocks has picked up dramatically in the last few weeks, in particular interest appears to be focused on heavyweight Sechaba which is trading on a 10.5x historic PER and 8.4% dividend yield. The stock goes ex-dividend at the end of next week.

  • Over 17 million contracts traded on French derivatives markets in April, Matif strengthens its lead as the top electronic market for 3-month Euribor contract

    Date 06/05/1999

    April figures show a total 17,516,199 contracts changed hands on French derivatives markets Matif and Monep, a rise of nearly 7% on March. Open interest was up across the entire line of derivative products. Gross open interest in the Euro Notional contract rose 11.8% on March to total 217,562 lots at the end of the month. April was the first month of trading in only multi-issuer contracts based on both French and German government issues. With short-term rates showing low volatility, trading in

  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange To Be Closed for Business on 30 and 31 December 1999

    Date 06/05/1999

    After due consideration, the JSE Main Committee has decided that the JSE will be closed for business on 30 and 31 December 1999. 29 December 1999 will thus be the last day for the dissemination of trading information to the public and vendors during 1999. This information will therefore appear in the media on 30 December 1999. Key JSE personnel will be at work on 30 and 31 December 1999 in order to assist in the orderly transition of JSE systems to the year 2000.

  • CBOT'S April Volume at 19,570,395 Contracts

    Date 06/05/1999

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's leading futures and options exchange, announced today trading volume of 19,570,395 contracts for April 1999. April Highlights Included: CBOT volume reached more than one million contracts per day on 6 of the 22 trading days in April; CBOT average daily volume: 889,563 contracts; Project A® monthly total: 855,837; Project A average daily volume: 38,902 contracts

  • NYMEX Sets Monthly Copper Volume Record in April

    Date 04/05/1999

    A monthly volume record for COMEX Division copper futures was established in April with 296,162 contracts traded by month's end, surpassing the previous monthly volume record of 291,393 contracts traded in June 1994. Exchange President R. Patrick Thompson said, 'This record is not only evidence of the continued use of our copper futures contract as a tool for global price discovery and risk management but bodes well for the introduction of our aluminum futures contract next week. Year-to-date, c

  • HKSE Listing Decisions published on the web page

    Date 04/05/1999

    The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong today (Monday) posted a new series of Listing Decisions on its website in order to increase market transparency. The new series of Listing Decisions comprises decisions taken in cases handled by the Listing Committee and the Listing Division in their everyday work without identifying the parties involved. Both the decisions and the interpretation and rationale behind them are disclosed.

  • European Exchanges sign agreement

    Date 04/05/1999

    The heads of eight leading European stock exchanges signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Madrid today (May 4). The Memorandum is formal confirmation of the ongoing commitment by all the exchanges to continue to work jointly towards harmonising the markets for their leading securities and establishing a pan-European equity market. The ratification of the wider European Alliance follows the formation of a strategic alliance between the London Stock Exchange and Frankfurt's Deutsche Börse in Ju

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