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Australia short of CGT volunteers, says ASX

Date 19/07/1999

The Australian Stock Exchange ("ASX") has released a study on the economic gains from reform of Capital Gains Tax in Australia. The study was undertaken by Mr Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Research at the highly respected US-based Hudson Institute.
CME Sets Deutsche Mark Transfer to GLOBEX2 for August 9

Date 18/07/1999

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Board of Directors has set August 9 as the start date for Regular Trading Hour trading of Deutsche mark futures on the GLOBEX®2 electronic trading system.
Kansas City Board of Trade seeks to split ISDEX, Internet stock index contract

Date 17/07/1999

The board of directors of the Kansas City Board of Trade today has approved a split in the exchange's ISDEX, Internet stock index contract from its current value of $100 times the futures price to $25 times the futures price.
Agreements to be signed for the Listing of Exchange Fund Notes on the Stock Exchange

Date 17/07/1999

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK), the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (HKSCC) will sign agreements on Monday, July 19, 1999 for the listing of Exchange Fund Notes (EFN) on the Stock Exchange.
Warsaw Stock Exchange and Paris Bourse SBF SA sign a Memorandum of Co-operation

Date 16/07/1999

The Warsaw Stock Exchange and Paris Bourse SBF SA have signed today in Warsaw a Memorandum of Co-operation (MOC)

Six-Month Record at Deutsche Börse Clearing

Date 16/07/1999

Settlement of registered shares with limited transferability rose substantially during the first half of the year. Deutsche Börse Clearing changed over almost half a million registered shares (474,398) with its CASCADE-RS special settlement system for registered shares, an increase of 80 percent compared with the same period of last year and almost as many as the total settlement volume last year (487,744).
NYMEX Appoints Two Public Directors

Date 16/07/1999

The New York Mercantile Exchange recently appointed Harley Lippman, founder and chief executive officer of Genesis 10, an information technology company, and Robert Steele, a former public director of the Exchange and vice chairman of John Ryan Company, an international bank marketing firm, to two-year terms as public directors on the board of directors.
JSE Achieves All Time High Value and Volume Traded in One Week

Date 16/07/1999

The JSE is pleased to announce that an all time weekly high turnover of ZAR19,980 million was recorded for the week ending July 16, 1999. The previous weekly high of ZAR11,117 million was recorded during the week ending April 16, 1999.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 16/07/1999

The market continued to soar as the index gained 3.3% to close the week at a record high of 1,075.54 led by bank stocks.
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Updates TA 25 and TA 100 Indexes

Date 15/07/1999

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange announced that as of August 1, 1999, it will update the composition of the TA-25 and TA-100 indexes, the bourse's two major stock indexes.