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  • CBOT 1999 Volume At 254,561,215 Contracts

    Date 05/01/2000

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), yesterday announced total 1999 year-end volume of 254,561,215 contracts, marking six consecutive years CBOT topped 200 million contracts. December trading volume was 13,938,312.

  • CBOE Ends Year As The First Exchange To Average Over A Million Options Contracts Per Day

    Date 05/01/2000

    The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has announced that it set new records in annual and monthly volume. Total exchange-wide volume soared to 254,331,851 contracts in 1999, accounting for a record year at CBOE that represents a 23% increase over the record setting 206,865,991 contracts traded in 1998. Average daily volume rose to 1,009,253 contracts in 1999, compared to 1998's record setting pace of 820,897 contracts. Exchange wide open interest reached an all-time year-end high, standing a

  • SFE Market Begins New Year Smoothly

    Date 04/01/2000

    The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) opened for the first time in 2000 at 8.30am this morning, Tuesday 4 January, without disruption following the New Year changeover.

  • Oslo Bourse Review of 1999

    Date 04/01/2000

    December 1999 was the best December since 1988. Led by IT shares, the all-share index shot up 8.9 per cent. Several European bourses rose by an even greater margin. The IT index rose by all of 35.4 per cent. But a solid rise was also recorded for a number of other sectors: 8.6 per cent for the shipping index and 9.7 per cent for the industrial index. The all-share index rose 45.5 per cent in 1999, a figure topped on only three previous occasions: in 1983, 1989 and 1993. Even so it ended the year

  • Minneapolis Grain Exchange Breaks Annual Volume Record

    Date 04/01/2000

    The Minneapolis Grain Exchange is pleased to announce several annual volume records. Total futures and options volume for 1999 at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange hit 1,188,815 contracts, breaking last year's record. Previous record volume, set in 1998, was 1,169,533 contracts. Total options volume for 1999 increased 21 percent to 53,870 contracts. The previous options volume record was set in 1997, when a total of 47,710 contracts traded. Total futures volume was 1,134,945 contracts, also break