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Durum Wheat Futures Contract Amendments Approved

Date 03/03/2000

The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGE) announced changes to the durum wheat futures contract, traded on the Exchange since February 1998. These changes were approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on February 28, 2000.
CME Reacts To SEC-CFTC Letter On Single Stock Futures

Date 03/03/2000

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chairman Scott Gordon and President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNulty today responded to a joint SEC-CFTC letter about single stock futures and the Shad/Johnson Accord sent yesterday to Senate and House leaders:
ASX Share Day - Understanding The Trick Of The Trade

Date 03/03/2000

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) will hold its annual Share Day on Saturday 4 March 2000, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide to assist members of the public interested in share investment to understand how the sharemarket works.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong - Compensation for C.A. Pacific Securities And Chark Fung Securities Claimants

Date 02/03/2000

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Sydney Futures Exchange's Market Disruption

Date 02/03/2000

2 March 2000: At 3.55pm EST today, the market of the Sydney Futures Exchange was halted due to a systems failure, preventing the last 35 minutes of the day's trading and delaying the opening of the evening session until 7.05pm EST.

Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Enjoys Another Month Of Strong Growth In Volume And Open Interest

Date 02/03/2000

Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading (SGX-DT) is pleased to announce figures showing robust growth in its total trading volume and open interest in the month of February 2000. A total of 4,350,812 contracts have been traded from January to February 2000, up 12.40% from the 3,870,825 contracts traded in the same period last year. Open interest has leaped 16.5% to 1,081,786 contracts at end February 2000, from 928,589 contracts at end February 1999.
Program Trading Averaged 19.8 Percent of NYSE Volume During Feb. 22-25

Date 02/03/2000

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Feb. 22-25. The data indicated that during Feb. 22-25, program trading amounted to 19.8 percent of NYSE average daily volume of 1,063.4 million shares, or 211.0 million shares a day.
Parisbourse SBF SA Derivatives Trading Up 15% - Open Interest In Euro Notional Contracts Continues Steady Rise

Date 02/03/2000

Nearly 22 million contracts (21,976,595) changed hands on derivative markets operated by ParisBourse SBF SA in February, 15.5% more than in January.
OM's Trading System Ready For Production On The International Securities Exchange

Date 02/03/2000

OM Technology has received full acceptance of its delivery of an electronic trading system, OM CLICK, to the International Securities Exchange (ISE) in the USA. On Thursday, February 24, the ISE also received its exchange approval from the US supervisory authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This will mean that when the ISE opens its doors for business on May 26 it will be the first new securities exchange to be opened in the USA for 27 years.
Nasdaq-World's biggest Stock Market by Dollar Value

Date 02/03/2000

The dollar value of trading on Nasdaq® was $11.0 trillion for 1999-up 90 percent from the previous record of $5.8 trillion in 1998 making Nasdaq the World's biggest stock market by dollar value traded.