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LIFFE trades GBP224bn Per Day in March 1999

Date 10/04/1999

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) traded an average daily nominal value of GBP224 billion in March 1999, up 13% on February 1999. Total outstanding business in all the Euro money market contracts at the end of the month exceeded 2000 billion. LIFFE's share of the Euribor market has increased to 87%. LIFFE's Three Month Euribor contracts have continued to show growth, with open interest at over 1,300 billion (1,351,019 contracts) on March 31, an increase of 8
CME to list Mid-Sized Options on BFP Milk beginning April 12

Date 10/04/1999

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will launch mid-sized options on its successful basic formula price (BFP) milk contract, beginning Monday, April 12. The options, sized at one-half of one BFP milk futures contract and representing 100,000 pounds of milk, will provide additional flexibility for risk management in the dairy industry and will complement the CME's 50,000 and 200,000 pound options.
CME QBI to Be Transferred To GLOBEX2 Electronic Trading System

Date 10/04/1999

The CME Quarterly Bankruptcy Index (QBI) contract is scheduled to be transferred to the GLOBEX®2 electronic trading system from its open outcry pit on Monday, April 19, 1999. Under the revised procedures recently approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, trading in the contract will be conducted under a modified trading schedule similar to a daily auction, with buy and sell orders being matched each day at 13:30 Chicago time. Prior to the daily matching process, bids and offers can
Cantor Exchange Activates Keyboard Access

Date 10/04/1999

Signaling a major milestone in the transformation of the exchange markets to the electronic arena, Cantor Exchange (CX) on April 6 activated keyboard access to the Cantor Exchange. The New Interactive Cantor Speed system is the first electronic trading system to provide simultaneous electronic access to both the U.S. Treasury cash and futures markets. Authorized traders may now execute U.S. Treasury futures on the Cantor Exchange and U.S. Treasury cash at Cantor Fitzgerald via the same electroni
New Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Field Pea Futures Contract

Date 05/04/1999

Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) launched a new field pea futures contract at 09:30 on April 5. Contract months that became available for trading with the introduction of the contract include: June 1999, August 1999, October 1999, December 1999 and February 2000.

CBOT's March Volume At 23,401,000 Contracts

Date 05/04/1999

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's leading futures and options exchange, announced today trading volume of 23,401,000 contracts for March 1999, and 69,349,073 contracts year-to-date, up 1.8%.
KCBT gets approval for new contract based on Internet.com's ISDEX Internet stock index

Date 03/04/1999

The Kansas City Board of Trade has received government approval to trade futures and futures options based on the ISDEX index of Internet stocks. ISDEX, The Internet Stock Index created by internet.com LLC, is the leading and the oldest Internet stock index in the marketplace. The ISDEX contains 50 stocks representative of the diversity of publicly traded U.S. companies that derive revenue primarily from the Internet, including stocks from the software, hardware, content, commerce and communicat
IPE Volumes Smash Through Records

Date 03/04/1999

The volume of trade recorded at the IPE last month reached a new high, exceeding the previous record by a third. Total traded volume on the IPE reached 2,444,270 lots (almost 2.5 billion barrels), compared to the previous high of 1,831,612 lots (1.8 billion barrels) which was achieved in March 1998.
Eurex sets new World-wide Record in Trading Volume in March

Date 03/04/1999

March was a record month for the Eurex derivatives market in many respects. With a volume of 33.8 million contracts traded, Eurex exceeded the previous record of 28.25 million contracts traded in September 1998 and has set a new standard world-wide. Over 30 million contracts were traded on an options and futures exchange for the first time. The US exchange CBOT held the previous record (28.8 million contracts in September 1997). The March trading volume at Eurex is over 74 percent higher than th
EUR 477 Billion in Turnover on the German Stock Exchanges

Date 03/04/1999

A total of EUR476.67 billion in turnover was posted in equities, warrants and fixed income securities on the German stock exchanges in March. This corresponds to an increase of about 17 percent against the previous month and a decline of about of about 14 percent from the March 1998 figure.