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Nymex Announces Eurotop Margin Decreases

Date 23/03/2001

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will lower the margins on its FTSE Eurotop 100 and 300® futures contracts as of the close of business today. Margins on the Eurotop 100® contracts will be lowered to $8,000 from $11,000 and margins on the Eurotop 300® futures contracts will be lowered to $6,500 from $9,000.
NYBOT Reminder Of Change To Coffee Differential

Date 23/03/2001

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT®) announced the Reduction of Peruvian Discount: As a reminder, effective March 1, 2000 for the July 2001 and all subsequent delivery months, the discount applied to Peruvian Coffee deliverable under the Coffee “C” contract became 100 points.
New participant On SWX: B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Frankfurt

Date 23/03/2001

The SWX Swiss Exchange has accepted B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Frankfurt, as a participant. The new participant will commence trading activities on the SWX platform on Monday, 26 March 2001.
Nasdaq Modifies Clearly Erroneous Transactions Procedures

Date 23/03/2001

The Nasdaq Stock Market® announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an amendment to a National Association of Securities Dealer’s (NASD®) rule to provide senior Nasdaq® officers with the authority in extraordinary circumstances to extend the 30 minute deadline for broker/dealers to notify Nasdaq that a transaction is "clearly erroneous."
London Stock Exchange Announces Management Restructure

Date 23/03/2001

Clara Furse, Chief Executive at the London Stock Exchange today announced a reorganisation of the Exchange's management structure. The changes are designed to focus high level resource on strategic development, and further strengthen the Exchange's marketing and communications drive. This underlines the Exchange's commitment to build and expand its international business by developing its customer services and infrastructure.

Kuwait Stock Exchange Trading Report For February 2001

Date 23/03/2001

The index of the Kuwait Stock Exchange reached 1380.3 points at the end of February, an increase of 40.5 points from the closing value at the end of January.
HKEx GEM Conference At Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science Park

Date 23/03/2001

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will organise a conference aimed at providing potential Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) listing candidates in Mainland China with a greater understanding of the requirements for listing on GEM in Hong Kong. The conference will be held in Beijing on 30 March. About 100 companies from Zhongguancun selected by the Beijing Municipal Government and the Ministry of Science and Technology will attend the conference. The news media are cordially invited
DIAMONDS® Debut On Boston's Exchange - Boston Stock Exchange Is The First Regional Stock Exchange To Trade DIAMONDS

Date 23/03/2001

The Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) today became the first regional market center to trade DIAMONDS (Symbol: DIA), exchange-traded securities that are based on the 30 component stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average(SM) . Until now, DIAMONDS were only available through The Nasdaq-Amex Market Group(SM).
CME E-mini S&P 500, E-mini Nasdaq-100 Futures Set Volume Records - Options On S&P 500 Futures Also Post Volume Record

Date 23/03/2001

E-mini S&P 500 and E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) rose to record levels yesterday, with 201,555 and 154,293 contracts changing hands, respectively. This is the first time that the E-mini S&P 500 stock index futures contract has exceeded 200,000 and the E-mini Nasdaq-100 has surpassed 150,000 contracts.
CME Contract Specifications Changes: GLOBEX Currency Futures

Date 23/03/2001

The CME Contract Specifications pages on the CME's Web site have been updated.