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  • CBOT Volume On a/c/e Sets New Daily Record At 194,358 Contracts - Volume Since System’s Launch Surpasses 10,000,000

    Date 18/01/2001

    The Chicago Board of Trade announced its members set a new daily volume record on January 17, 2001 at 194,358 contracts traded on its electronic trading platform, a/c/e, breaking the former high of 183,985 contracts set on November 8, 2000.

  • CBOT April Agricultural Serial Options Begin Trading Jan. 22, 2001

    Date 18/01/2001

    April agricultural serial options on wheat, corn, oats, soybean, soybean meal, soybean oil, and rice futures will trade from January 22, 2001 to March 23, 2001. For additional information please contact Susan Sutherland in the Market and Product Development Department at +1 312-435-3779.

  • Tokyo Stock Exchange: Revision To Deadlines Of DVP Settlement

    Date 17/01/2001

    From the point of smooth transition to DVP settlement system preventing failed settlement as much as possible, deadlines of DVP settlement described in the Summary of DVP settlement published on 16 June 1998 have been moved to later time.

  • The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Limited Annual Reports And/Or Interim Reports

    Date 17/01/2001

    Listed issuers may apply for a waiver for deviation from Paragraphs 8 and 10 of the Main Board Listing Agreement and Rules 18.03 and 18.54 of the GEM Listing Rules requiring the sending out of both English and Chinese versions of Annual and/or Interim Reports to members and holders of their listed securities subject to complying with certain conditions to be imposed.

  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sets New Annual Equity And Options Volume Records

    Date 17/01/2001

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that equity options for the month of December 2000 reached 8,599,848 contracts traded, a 102 percent increase over the same month last year when 4,261,170 contracts changed hands. In addition, year-to-date equity options volume set a new record of 72,135,321 contracts traded. This represents a 64 percent increase over the first 12 months of 1999, the previous record year, when 44,086,183 contracts traded.

  • Standard & Poor's – Index Change TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector And TSE 100 Indices

    Date 17/01/2001

    Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Thursday, January 18, 2001, the following changes will take place in the TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian Information Technology Sector and TSE 100 Indices.

  • Standard & Poor’s – Index Change TSE 300 Annual Revision Process

    Date 17/01/2001

    Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces the following change to the TSE 300 annual revision process. Candidates for addition to or deletion from the index will be assessed on the basis of the February month end float adjusted market value calculated using the February trade weighted average price. In the past, the market value of index candidates was calculated on the basis of their trailing 12-month trade-weighted average price.

  • SEC Adopts Rule Prohibiting Misleading Mutual Fund Names

    Date 17/01/2001

    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has adopted a new rule to prohibit the use of mutual fund names that may mislead investors about a fund's investments and risks. The rule requires that a mutual fund with a name suggesting that it focuses on a particular type of investment invest at least 80% of its assets in accordance with its name. The text of the rule will be available on the Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov/rules/finrindx.htm.

  • Meeting Of The Stock Exchange Board On 17 January 2001

    Date 17/01/2001

    At a meeting held today, 17 January 2001, the Stock Exchange Board resolved to remove Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse and Agresso from listing. The Stock Exchange Board also decided not to admit Konftel Invest and Stove Shipping to listing following the demergers of Industriinvestor and Western Bulk Shipping respectively.

  • CBOT: Neubauer Letter To Members On Restructuring Objectives

    Date 17/01/2001

    Dear Member: The Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, Inc. yesterday approved certain restructuring initiatives designed to accomplish the following objectives: Demutualize the CBOT® by converting the CBOT® from a nonstock, not-for-profit corporation into a stock, for-profit corporation and distributing shares of common stock of For-Profit CBOT® to the current CBOT® members; Modernize the CBOT®’s corporate governance structure by substantially eliminating the me