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  • Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

    Date 22/06/1999

    The market edged higher as blue chips, Barclays and Stanchart, showed strong gains with the index leaping 2.7%, the highest weekly gain since 15 May 1998. Barclays gained 60t on the adjusted post-split price of P4.00 to trade at P4.60 on light volume. The rival counter Stanchart, picked P2 on a heavy volume of 113,500 shares to regain its all-time high of P25.00. Inco reached yet another new high when it topped P2.60 on relatively modest volume, representing a 20t rise for the week. Sechaba gave

  • Bahrain Stock Exchange Securities & Investment Research Weekly Report June 13 to June 17

    Date 22/06/1999

    Price indices improved in all the GCC markets except Bahrain. The Oman index rose 2.6% to 233.79 points, the UAE index was up 2.5% to 3349.3, the Kuwait index 2.4% to 1618.1 and the Saudi Arabia 1.6% to 1458.1. The Bahrain Index lost 48% of its gains of last week. After gaining 19 points the prior week, the BSE index lost 9.1 points to close at 2137 points. Once again declines out numbered advances 7 to 6.

  • ASX Encouraged by Y2K Industry Test

    Date 22/06/1999

    ASX has completed its detailed analysis of the recent Year 2000 Industry Test (Equities). ASX co-ordinated the test, which involved 23 representative organisations (ASX, 10 brokers, 5 custodians, 6 banks and a registry processor) from across the equities industry. A complete list of participants is included below. "This complex exercise ran for more than three weeks," said ASX Managing Director, Mr Richard Humphry. "All participants contributed to the success of the exercise. ASX's analysis sho

  • Uniphase Chairman Rings Opening Bell For E-Mini Nasdaq 100 Futures Trading On CME

    Date 21/06/1999

    Kevin N. Kalkhoven, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq: UNPH)-one of the newest Nasdaq 100 component stocks-today rang the ceremonial bell to open trading in E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index® futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) at 9 a.m. (Central time). "With today's launch of E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures investors can participate with a single transaction in the growth of the hottest technology companies that have taken the world by storm," CME Chairman Scott

  • Trading record on Icelandic Stock Exchange

    Date 21/06/1999

    The value of turnover in shares on The Icelandic Stock Exchange for 1999 has today (June 21) reached ISK 13.314 Million. The former record was for 1997, total ISK 13.283 Million.

  • Toronto Stock Exchange Distribution Notices For "Tips 35" And "Tips 100"

    Date 21/06/1999

    The Toronto Stock Exchange has declared distributions for both Toronto 35 and TSE 100 Index Participation Units for the second quarter ending June 30, 1999. The distribution for holders of TIPS 35 as at June 30, 1999 is $0.18742 per Participation Unit and will be payable July 16, 1999. The distribution for holders of TIPS 100 as at June 30, 1999 is $0.18134 per Participation Unit and will be payable July 16, 1999. Both TIPS 35 and TIPS 100 will trade ex-distribution on June 28, 1999.

  • Swedish and Danish Equity Trading Unites

    Date 21/06/1999

    For the first time in history, two separate stock markets have linked up. Today marks the start of equity trading on the OM Stockholm Exchange and the Copenhagen Stock Exchange via a single system. This implies trading in Swedish and Danish shares via a single system and according to common trading rules-70% of the total Nordic equity market is now accessible from one system.

  • Paris Markets Transaction Volumes Slightly Down in May

    Date 21/06/1999

    Despite showing a 5.58% dip compared to the previous month, May's daily average transaction volume of EUR2.47 billion exchanged on the Premier Marché and Second Marché marked a 19.22% rise compared to the average for the whole of 1998. The total transaction volume of EUR258.75 billion for the first five months of the year showed a 26.4% increase compared to the same period in 1998, with the number of trades rising by 16.8% at 21.5 million. The total number of trades for May was 3.9 million.

  • New Market of Amsterdam Exchanges Creates Direct Link With Paris

    Date 21/06/1999

    From June 1999, the New Market of Amsterdam Exchanges is directly linked with the Nouveau Marché de Paris. Banks and trading firms with a cross membership for the Benelux-bourses already use a direct link between Brussels and Amsterdam. This means that three out of the five actual Euro-NM markets are linked directly. At this moment a direct link with Frankfurt, Milan and possible new members of the Euro-NM initiative is subject of a study.

  • Hong Kong Listed Companies Corporate Documents and Derivative Warrants & Debt Securities Issuer Documents 1998 on Compact Disks

    Date 21/06/1999

    The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited released today (Monday) two new CD products containing listed issuer corporate documents. Hong Kong Listed Companies Corporate Documents 1998 (Excluding Interim & Annual Reports) contains black and white images in English and Chinese of corporate documents published during 1998 by Hong Kong listed companies. Corporate documents include prospectuses, shareholder circulars, proposals for corporate action -- takeovers, reorganisations, disposals of assets, s