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Tokyo Stock Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange To Pursue Global Alliance

Date 17/10/2000

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) announced plans to pursue a global alliance between the two exchanges. The goal is to further develop the exchanges' fixed income and equity derivatives markets, including the potential development of joint products and globally interconnected electronic trading systems.
The Central Bank Of Iceland Auctions Repurchase Agreements For 16.6 Billion Krónur

Date 17/10/2000

The Central Bank of Iceland held a weekly auction of repurchase agreements on October 17 of the standard maturity of 14 days. The auction was a fixed rate one at 10.6 per cent p.a. Offers were made for a total amount of 16.6 billion krónur resulting in repurchase contracts for that amount.
Oslo Stock Exchange To join the NOREX Alliance - The Stock Exchange Board Approves The NOREX Agreement. Oslo Stock Exchange To Become Part Of An International Market

Date 17/10/2000

The Stock Exchange Board has today formally approved the agreements that will form the basis for the Oslo Stock Exchange to join the NOREX alliance of Nordic stock exchanges. The formal agreements, which now have to be approved by the Stock Exchange Council, represent the final and decisive part of the process required to make the Oslo Stock Exchange a member of NOREX. Once the joint market comes into operation in a little over a year's time, listed Norwegian companies will be exposed to much br
OM: Oslo Stock Exchange To join the NOREX Alliance

Date 17/10/2000

The board of the Oslo Stock Exchange today approved the agreements with the NOREX Alliance. On the assumption that the Stock Exchange Council acknowledges the agreements the Oslo Stock Exchange will become a partner of the NOREX Alliance.
New Opening Hours For Bond Trading In SAXESS As From 17 October 2000

Date 17/10/2000

Danish bonds were transferred from the ELECTRA trading system to SAXESS on 16 October 2000.

Minneapolis Grain Exchange Names Officers And Non-Member Directors

Date 17/10/2000

The Minneapolis Grain Exchange Board of Directors named 2000-01 officers at its October 16 meeting.
Meeting Of The Oslo Stock Exchange Board On 17 October 2000

Date 17/10/2000

Fast, Norkom and Northern Offshore Limited are to be listed. The Stock Exchange Board has approved the listing of shares in Fast Search & Transfer ASA on the Main List, and the shares in Norkom ASA and Northern Offshore Limited on the SMB-list of the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Global Communications Player Marconi plc Lists Shares On Nasdaq

Date 17/10/2000

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., announced that shares of U.K.-based Marconi plc, a leading global communications and information technology (IT) company, began trading on Nasdaq® today under the symbol Nasdaq:MONI. The company, whose shares are also listed on the London Stock Exchange and whose American Depositary Receipts were previously traded on the Over-the-Counter Market (OTC), has the largest market capitalization (as of October 11, 2000) of all the U.K. companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock
Final Nasdaq Third Quarter 2000 Results - Daily Share Volume Averaged 1.58 Billion - Total Dollar Volume Exceeded $4.7 Trillion

Date 17/10/2000

The Nasdaq Composite® Index finished the third quarter of 2000 significantly higher than it did at the end of the same period one year ago, while trading activity continued to ascend. On September 29, the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 3672.82, a gain of 33.74 percent from the end of the third quarter the year before. The Composite declined 7.39 percent, however, from the second quarter of this year and was 9.74 percent lower for the year.
Extraordinary General Meeting Of shareholders Of OM Gruppen

Date 17/10/2000

In conjunction with OM’s offer to the shareholders of the London Stock Exchange plc (“LSE”), the Board of OM has called an Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders to take place on November 6, 2000 at 4pm in the Polhemssalen, Ingenjörshuset (Citykonferensen), Malmskillnadsgatan 46 in Stockholm. At this meeting, the Board will present a proposal to OM’s shareholders regarding its mandate to authorise the board to decide on issues of new shares. The intention is to use the authorisation partl