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LIFFE Trades £197 Billion A Day In 1999

Date 06/01/2000

The value of contracts traded on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) averaged £197bn (EUR317bn) per day throughout 1999. The total nominal value traded for the year was £50,319bn (EUR81,000bn) making LIFFE the largest exchange in Europe and the second largest exchange in the world by value. The Exchange traded a total of 117,783,881 futures and options contracts in 1999.
Final 1999 Trading Volume, IPOs Star At The NYSE

Date 06/01/2000

The New York Stock Exchange set records in 1999 for trading volume and initial public offerings, listing more than 94 percent of the year's qualified domestic IPOs. The Exchange this year reached record trading levels on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis. Average daily trading volume was a record 809.2 million shares1, a 20.1 percent increase over last year's 673.6 million share average. A total of 203.9 billion shares were traded, up 20.2 percent over the 1998 volume of 169.7
1999: Amsterdam Exchanges Looks Back On A Good Year

Date 06/01/2000

Despite gloomy predictions, 1999 turned out to be a good year for Amsterdam Exchanges. Once again the AEX index broke record after record. In contrast to many expectations, this rally chiefly occurred in December, just before the changeover to the new millennium. The AEX index finally closed on 30 December at 671.41 points, its highest closing price ever.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Vision For The New Year - Letter From The TSE President

Date 05/01/2000

My best wishes to you for this New Year and the new millennium. The Japanese 'Big Bang' has brought about dramatic changes in the Japanese financial market. At the same time, competition between domestic and international markets is ever intensifying.
SFE Secures Certainty For Users Of The SPI®

Date 05/01/2000

The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) has today signed an agreement with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) which ensures that SFE's premier equity product, the Share Price Index futures contract (SPI®), will continue to be based on the existing All Ordinaries Index (AOI) until September 2001.

SFE Has Successful First Day Of Year 2000 Trading

Date 05/01/2000

The Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) completed its first 24 hours of operation in the year 2000 without disruption.
NASD Board Unanimously Approves Major Restructuring

Date 05/01/2000

The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), announced that its Board of Governors yesterday has unanimously approved a major restructuring of the NASD.
Kansas City Board Of Trade Elects Officers, Directors For 2000

Date 05/01/2000

The membership of the Kansas City Board of Trade today has elected Daniel P. Maltby to the office of chairman for 2000.
Irish Stock Exchange And Deutsche Börse Announce Strategic Alliance - Deutsche Börse Acts As Systems Provider Offering Outsourcing Opportunities

Date 05/01/2000

The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) and Deutsche Börse have signed a Letter of Intent to form an alliance under which Deutsche Börse would provide the ISE with electronic trading facilities, whereby the ISE will run its market on a special segment of the Xetra trading platform. The Exchanges expect to have the new electronic market for Irish stocks operational in the second quarter 2000. The joint venture will reduce costs for the market participants and the exchanges, widen the product range, increa
Hang Seng 100 Futures Set Volume Record

Date 05/01/2000

The Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) has announced that Hang Seng 100 Futures volume rose to an all-time high of 1,189 contracts today, breaking the previous record of 821 contracts set on 28 April 1999. Hang Seng 100 Futures and Options were introduced in September 1998.