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London Stock Exchange Annual General Meeting - Chairman's Statement.

Date 14/09/2000

The following is the text of a statement by Don Cruickshank, Chairman, to the Annual General Meeting of the London Stock Exchange on Thursday 14 September 2000 at 12 noon. People ask me : why did you take on this job? Well, the answer is that I spied in the pre-demutualisation Exchange of March this year - just six months ago - opportunities for a commercially driven exchange to be the market leader, to build on its existing strong position, and to move forward to participate succes
London Stock Exchange Annual General Meeting

Date 14/09/2000

At today's annual general meeting of the London Stock Exchange all of the directors standing were re-elected to the Board. Three directors were elected on a poll and the results of the ballot are: Gavin Casey, For: 9,462,218 (56.3%), Against: 7,337,778 (43.7%); Michael Marks, For: 11,445,231(73.1%), Against: 4,215,420 (26.9%); Don Cruickshank, For: 10,984,563 (66.5%), Against: 5,525,408 (33.5%).
London Metal Exchange Demutualisation Agreed

Date 14/09/2000

The members of London Metal Exchange Limited (LME) today voted in favour of the Exchange becoming a shareholder-owned entity.
London Metal Exchange Choses Technology Partner To Develop Screen Trading System

Date 14/09/2000

The London Metal Exchange, the world's largest non-ferrous futures and traded options exchange, today announced, subject to contract, that it has appointed OM Technology to develop a screen trading system.
CME Changes: E-Mini Feeder Cattle Futures Launches On Globex®2 September 19, 2000 Contract Specifications

Date 14/09/2000

The CME Contract Specifications pages on the CME's Web site have been updated to reflect the following: Effective on Tuesday, September 19, 9:05 a.m. trading in E-Mini Feeder Cattle futures will be available on the CME's GLOBEX®2 electronic trading system, from 9:05 a.m. (Central) until 1:00 p.m.

a/c/e CBOT® Contract Volume Tops One Million in Just 12 Trading Days - CBOT® To Allow a/c/e Terminals On Trading Floor

Date 14/09/2000

The Chicago Board of Trade and Eurex today announced that CBOT® contract volume on their joint trading platform, a/c/e - alliance/cbot/eurex - exceeded one million in its first 12 days of operation.
TSE Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Daikin Indusries And Mizuho Holdings Added To S&P/Topix 150

Date 13/09/2000

Tokyo Stock Exchange and Standard & Poor' s will replace Industrial Bank of Japan (8302), Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (8311) and Fuji Bank (8317) in the S&P/TOPIX 150 Index with Nippon Sheet Glass Company (5202), DAIKIN INDUSRIES (6367) and Mizuho Holdings (8305) after the close of trading on Wednesday, Sep. 27, 2000.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Applies For Listing Approval For An Additional 3 Equity Options

Date 13/09/2000

TSE has applied for listing approval of equity options on the following stocks: Fujisawa Pharmaceutical, Nippon Sheet Glass and Daikin Industries
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Equities And Options Post Record Volume

Date 13/09/2000

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that its equity option volume for the month of August reached a record 5,923,531 contracts traded. This represents a 61% increase over the same month last year when 3,680,056 contracts changed hands and a 9% increase over the previous record volume month set in March, 2000 when 5,450,551 contracts changed hands. In addition, year-to-date equity options volume reached a record of 39,422,282 contracts traded, a 35% increase over the first eigh
OM Technology Delivers Its SAXESS System To The Iceland Stock Exchange

Date 13/09/2000

OM Technology delivers its SAXESS system to the Iceland Stock Exchange As part of the Iceland Stock Exchange’s participation in the Norex Alliance, the Exchange has signed an agreement with OM Technology for delivery of the SAXESS system for stock and bond trading. Delivery will be completed in the beginning of October and trading will start with the system on October 23.