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  • CME Sets New March Volume Record

    Date 03/04/1999

    Trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose nearly 24 percent above the previous month's levels to record the busiest March in exchange history, with 19.6 million contracts changing hands. March volume was up nearly 5 percent compared to March 1998. Trading in equity index products set a new all-time monthly volume record for the second consecutive month, as March volume totalled 4.65 million contracts.

  • CME Announces Regular Quarterly Revision of Price Limits

    Date 03/04/1999

    Regular quarterly revision of price limits for equity index futures and options traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) become effective with the start of trading Thursday, April 1, 1999, at 08:30 (Chicago time). The trading halts, co-ordinated with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), are pegged to a percentage decline in the market and are reset quarterly based on market prices during the preceding quarter.

  • LCH and LIFFE announce Development Of Joint Venture

    Date 31/03/1999

    The London Clearing House (LCH) and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) announced plans to establish a joint venture to identify new services for customers in wholesale financial markets. The joint venture will research potential business opportunities that would not logically fall into the ambit of LCH or LIFFE alone and which would directly benefit wholesale market participants by drawing on the combined trade capture, central counterparty, risk management

  • IPE Board agrees to explore opportunities with external investors

    Date 31/03/1999

    At a special meeting the IPE Board of Directors decided that further investigation of the opportunities to extract external investment to the Exchange should be carried out. At the same time they agreed to hold off from the merger discussions with the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) until further exploration into the alternative proposal for the IPE's future has been completed, as requested by members.

  • IPE and SIMEX agree on New Arrangement for Brent Crude Futures

    Date 31/03/1999

    The IPE and Singapore International Monetary Exchange Limited ("SIMEX") are pleased to announce a new agreement in principle that will replace the existing mutual offset agreement between the two exchanges. The new agreement will allow for the Brent Crude futures contract to be traded electronically during the existing trading hours of the SIMEX Brent contract. SIMEX Clearing Members will retain the right to clear the Brent contract as in the existing agreement when the contract is traded electr

  • Deutsche Börse Group Continues Success of Previous Years

    Date 31/03/1999

    The Deutsche Börse Group's performance in 1998 was a continuation of its successful development in previous years. It is building on its business concept of developing and operating complex trading, clearing and information systems and "loading them up" with transactions. The financial figures for the 1998 business year presented by CEO Dr. Werner Seifert at the annual press briefing on Tuesday March 30, show another boost in performance. With an increase in sales of about 40 percent to DEM928.2

  • CME Sets April 1 Launch For Euroyen Libor Futures

    Date 31/03/1999

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will begin trading its Euroyen futures contract based on the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) on April 1, 1999. The new Euroyen LIBOR contract, recently approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will be traded via open outcry alongside the existing Euroyen contract that is pegged to the Tokyo Interbank Offer Rate (TIBOR).

  • CBOT Board approves half ticks for 10-Year Note contracts

    Date 31/03/1999

    Following through on its ongoing commitment to respond to customers and provide the world's most effective risk management markets, the CBOT Board of Directors has voted to provide half-tick trading in the 10-Year Note futures contract. The change will be effective June 27, 1999. At that time, 10-Year Note tick sizes on all contract months including the front month will be 1/2 of 1/32 of one point, or USD15.625 per contract. Currently, 10-Year note futures contracts are traded in increments of

  • HKEx Welcomes Eight Government Appointed Directors To Its Inaugural Board

    Date 30/03/1999

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) welcomes the Government's appointment of the eight Directors representing public and market interests to the Board. They will join the six directors elected by shareholders, and Mr Kwong Ki-chi, HKExs' Chief Executive as an ex-officio member, to form the inaugural board. The appointment of the directors appointed by the Government and those elected at the HKEx EGM held on 27 March will take effect on April 3, 2000. The inaugural board will hold

  • PHLX to Launch New Trading System on its Equity Floor

    Date 27/03/1999

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) has announced that it has received Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to operate the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) Trading System VTS, on its equity trading floor. VTS is a pre-opening order matching system for the execution of large-sized stock orders at the VWAP. Following a morning order-entry period, VTS executions will occur at approximately 09:20 with the VWAP calculated and assigned at approximately 16:20 each day. VTS will be a

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