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CME's E-mini Equity Index Contracts Set New Volume Records

Date 09/03/2000

Trading volume in the CME's E-mini S&P 500 Stock Price Index and E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures contracts both rose to record levels yesterday, March 7. The new record for E-mini S&P 500 futures totaled 86,423, surpassing the 82,817 mark set on Feb. 28. For E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures, the new volume record now stands at 28,433 and bests the previous record of 28,265 on Feb. 24.
Australian Stock Exchange And Standard & Poor's Introduce The S&P/ASX Indices

Date 09/03/2000

Standard and Poors (S&P) and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) are pleased to announce the list of constituents for the new S&P/ASX Benchmark Indices. The introduction of the indices is to become effective on 3 April, 2000.
The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Welcomes The Government's Plans To Reduce Transaction Costs

Date 08/03/2000

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong welcomes the latest plans of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to reduce the cost of securities transactions.
Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Participant Certificates And Branch Certificates

Date 08/03/2000

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong announces that all certificates representing holdings of Stock Exchange 'A' shares have ceased to have effect for any purposes as from March 6, 2000. The Membership Certificates and Branch Certificates issued prior to March 6, 2000 have also become void. They have been replaced by Exchange Participant Certificates and new Branch Certificates which should be displayed by Exchange Participants at their place of business under the Rules of the Exchange.
London Stock Exchange, CRESTCo And London Clearing House Announce Central Counterparty To Bring Benefits For Equity Market Users

Date 08/03/2000

The London Stock Exchange, CRESTCo and London Clearing House (LCH) today confirmed plans to introduce a central counterparty service for the Exchange's electronic order book in the first quarter of 2001.

LIFFE Commodity Products To Migrate To LIFFE CONNECT™ 4th Quarter 2000

Date 08/03/2000

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) announced today its decision to migrate all its commodity contracts to its state-of-the-art electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT™, following consultation with its members and market users. This is planned for the fourth quarter of 2000.
Delegation From HSBC Visits The Palestine Securities Exchange

Date 08/03/2000

A delegation from the HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited) consisting of Mr. Nick Bryan, Head of Custody and Clearing, and Mr. Ziad Al- Basha, Manager of Custody and Clearing paid a visit to the Palestine Securities Exchange.
TSE Delays Market Opening To 10:30am

Date 07/03/2000

The Toronto Stock Exchange is further delaying the market opening until 10:30am to allow members to work with orders in their systems. The Toronto Stock Exchange detected a systems problem during the opening market process this morning. Corrective measures have been taken.
TSE Delays Market Opening To 10:00am

Date 07/03/2000

The Toronto Stock Exchange detected a systems problem during the opening market process this morning. Corrective measures have been taken. To allow for an orderly market opening, the official market opening has been delayed until 10:00am.
TSE And Barclays Complete TIPS/Iunits Mergers

Date 07/03/2000

The Toronto Stock Exchange announced that the mergers between the Toronto 35 Index Participation Fund (TIPS 35), the TSE 100 Index Participation Fund (TIPS 100) and the iUnits S&P/TSE 60 Index Participation Fund (i60 Fund) were completed today. The assets of the TIPS Funds were transferred to the i60 Fund at the last traded price of the stocks held by the TIPS Funds. The net asset value, based on the close of the portfolio securities, for the TIPS 35 Fund units was $50.8993, for the TIPS 100 F