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Osaka Mercantile Exchange Aluminium Futures Monthly Report

Date 08/09/1999

On August 2, despite the yen's gain and the easier tone in LME, distant month opened higher at 167.1 yen on short-covering as players grew cautious of the lower level. On August 5, distant month advanced further to 172.1 yen in line with LME three-months aluminium which rallied immediately after falling below the $1,400 level. All contract months rose over the 170 yen level. On August 10, distant month surged to 175.4 yen on buying interest amid the upturn in Asian aluminium demand.
Introduction Of Block Trading & Revision of All-Or-None Trading on SIMEX

Date 08/09/1999

Effective 15 September 1999, SIMEX will introduce Block Trading (BT) for its MSCI Taiwan stock index futures, with one block size equivalent to 10 lots. Block trading allows transactions with a size at a specified multiple of the ordinary trading unit size in the regular market to be executed in its entirety at a single price. This move facilitates large-order execution with greater price efficiency, as the number of separate fills for institutional orders would be cut down significantly and ord
Computershare Withdraws Proposal For SFE

Date 08/09/1999

The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) has today received from Computershare Limited (CPU) advice that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire 50% of SFE.
TSE Experiencing Data Feed Problems - Update

Date 07/09/1999

The Toronto Stock Exchange is continuing its investigation into the communications difficulties that are impacting outbound information on the High-Speed Vendor Feed and the Canadian Consolidated Data Feed. As a result of on-going investigation, the Exchange will not resume trading at 12:50pm as originally announced. Trading will now resume at 1:03pm. The Exchange regrets any inconvenience created by continued disruption.
TSE Experiencing Data Feed Problems

Date 07/09/1999

The Toronto Stock Exchange is experiencing communications difficulties at this time affecting outbound information on The High-Speed Vendor Feed and the Canadian Consolidated Data Feed. This problem is impacting members' gateway access to the TSE as well as some information transmitted to the derivatives trading floor. As a result, we have closed (11:30am) the derivatives trading floor until further notice.

President's Year 2000 Council, SEC, NYSE, NASD, ICI, SIA Outline - 'Tool Kit' Helps Public Learn About Industry's Y2K Readiness

Date 07/09/1999

The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Investment Company Institute (ICI), and the Securities Industry Association (SIA) joined today in outlining the extensive steps undertaken by Wall Street, the mutual fund industry, and regulators to ensure that it will be "business as usual" when the year 2000 arrives.
Paris Bourse SBF busiest month of August ever, with the daily record beaten twice

Date 07/09/1999

Amounts traded were the highest ever for August, averaging EUR 2.428 billion, a day or 43.58% more than in the same month of last year. This was also 17.29% more than the daily average of EUR 2.07 billion for 1998 as a whole.
New Credit Lyonnais Options on Paris Bourse SBF SA

Date 07/09/1999

Paris Bourse SBF SA will open trading in Crédit Lyonnais equity options on September 14, 1999. This follows the highly successful admission of Crédit Lyonnais shares to the monthly settlement compartment of the Premier Marché on July 8 and their inclusion in the CAC 40 index sample on September 7.
MEFF HOLDING trading exceeds one million contracts in August

Date 07/09/1999

June trading on MEFF Holding reached 1,153,041 contracts, a daily average of 52,805 contracts.
The Spanish Equity Derivatives Market Grows 41% Through August. Options On Shares Grow 173%

Date 06/09/1999

The Spanish equity derivatives market, MEFF RV, registered a volume of 971,182 contracts traded in August 1999, accumulating a total volume of 7,506,507 in the first eight months, a 41% growth over the same period of last year. Options on Shares have experienced the biggest growth with a 173% increase.