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The Amex® Announces Record Results For 2000 - Gains Across All Business Lines; ETF Products Top $70 Billion; Options Set Record

Date 19/01/2001

The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) today detailed its results for the year 2000, posting strong gains in all three of its core business lines. Exchange-traded fund assets and average daily volume nearly doubled for the sixth consecutive year. The Amex’s options business traded a record volume of more than 200 million contracts. The Amex Composite Index beat that of every other domestic exchange and the Amex added 112 new operating company listings.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) Sets One-Day Volume Record for Equity And Index Options

Date 19/01/2001

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it reached a new one-day record volume for trading equity and index options on Jan.18 when 732,251 equity and index options contracts were traded. This marked an 8 percent increase over the previous record-high daily volume on December 15, 2000 when 673,017 contracts were traded.
Nymex To Lower Natural Gas Margins - Exchange To Lower Natural Gas Margins

Date 19/01/2001

The New York Mercantile Exchange will lower the margins at the close of business today its February and March 2001 Henry Hub natural gas futures contracts and increase the margins on its April 2001 contract.
NYBOT Reports New Cocoa Futures Volume And Cocoa Option Call Volume Records

Date 19/01/2001

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) reported a new cocoa futures volume record of 31,485, set on January 18, 2001. The previous cocoa futures volume record was 30,678, set on April 7, 1997.
New York Stock Exchange Issues Monthly Short Interest Report

Date 19/01/2001

The New York Stock Exchange today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of January 12, 2001 reflecting transactions through January 9, 2001.

Copenhagen Stock Exchange Changes In Face Value

Date 19/01/2001

In connection with the changes in the Danish market conventions and the drawing procedures for bonds, the face value - the nominal value of the bond - will also be changed. The face value of most of the Danish bonds will be changed to DKK 0.01 or EUR 0.01 in respect of the euro bonds.
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Membership To Vote On Recommendation to ‘Demutualize’

Date 18/01/2001

The Board of Governors of Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) today announced it is recommending that the WCE demutualize and is placing a detailed proposal before the membership for a vote.
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange Board Of Governors Approves New Feed Wheat Contract Design

Date 18/01/2001

The Board of Governors of Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) has approved a revised feed wheat contract design, effective with the listing of the October 2001 feed wheat futures contract. Trading in the new contract will begin as soon as approval of the contract design is received from the Manitoba Securities Commission.
Stock Exchange of Thailand Board Of Governors Confirms Trading Fee Structure For Member Firms

Date 18/01/2001

Mr. Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan, President, the Stock Exchange of Thailand, announced that the SET Board of Governors has confirmed the fee structure for member firm trading. This followed the monthly meeting of the Board wherein they resolved to confirm the fee structure of the Trading Fee for member firms. This fee adjustment, as announced in the resolutions of the Board's monthly meeting on December 20, 2000, will help member brokerage firms lessen their expense burdens in the current market sit
Smooth Start For Clearing 21® On Paris Equity Markets

Date 18/01/2001

Clearing 21®, which will be the common clearing system used by Euronext markets in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris by the end of the year, has been operational on Euronext equity markets in Paris since January 12. Already up and running on Euronext Paris derivatives markets Monep and Matif since September 8 last year, Clearing 21® is a recognized industry standard developed jointly by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Paris Bourse acquired the system in 1997