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  • 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

  • Millennium Update Issued By The LSE Nerve Centre Following A Checkpoint At 0800 On 4 January 2000

    Date 04/01/2000

    The Exchange has again monitored all key systems overnight and no date related problems have been found. All procedures related to the start of the trading day have been performed successfully and the market has opened for business as usual

  • LIFFE - Y2K Status Report

    Date 04/01/2000

    LIFFE's markets opened this morning as scheduled and trading is in progress as normal. Our Year 2000 testing has now been completed and no issues have been identified.

  • IPE Successfully Completes Millennium Testing

    Date 04/01/2000

    The IPE opened for business as usual this morning following a successful test of its internal and external systems and facilities over the long weekend. A comprehensive programme had been developed to ensure that the IPE was fully prepared for the millennium bug and could continue to offer risk management and investment services to the international energy and financial industries.

  • Booming Equity Markets, Electronic Trading Fuel Solid Volume Year For Chicago Mercantile Exchange

    Date 04/01/2000

    The booming U.S. stock market and growth in electronic trading helped the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) mark one of its best years ever in 1999, as equity index products posted record volume for the year.

  • 1999 Record Year For IPE

    Date 04/01/2000

    Volumes of trade at the IPE reached their highest ever level last year as dramatic oil price movements drove home the advantages of using the IPE for managing risk and trading.

  • Singapore Exchange Trades Smoothly In Y2000

    Date 03/01/2000

    Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pleased to announce that the systems for both its securities and derivatives markets have successfully made the crossover to Year 2000 and that trading has proceeded smoothly today.

  • Oslo Bourse Y2K: No Critical Errors Or Defects

    Date 03/01/2000

    The Oslo Bourse has tested its trading systems and systems connected with external participants in the Norwegian Security Market. The bourse did not find any critical errors or defects.

  • MEFF Y2K Status

    Date 03/01/2000

    MEFF certifies that it has today tested all the basic supplies (voice and data lines, power supply), all software and hardware and that all of them are working correctly, both for MEFF Renta Fija and Meff Renta Variable.

  • KLSE Resumes Operations Successfully

    Date 03/01/2000

    The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) resumed full operations today Monday, 3 January 2000 after successfully confirming its systems are free of Y2K problems over the New Year's weekend. KLSE's full operations include its trading, clearing and settlement and depository operations. Both the morning and afternoon trading sessions were conducted smoothly at the KLSE with no Y2K problems. In fact, all six (6) KLSE mission critical systems were confirmed to be free of any Y2K problems after 1:00 a