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Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul): Reminder Announcement Regarding Opening Trading Hours Of Sukuk And Bonds Market Starting From Next Sunday

Date 03/01/2019

Reference to the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) announcement published on 26 December 2018, regarding changing the opening trading hour of Sukuk and Bonds Market. 

Thailand Futures Exchange Gears Up For Liquidity And Quality In 2019 After 31 Pct Trading Volume Rise In 2018

Date 03/01/2019

• Total trading volume surpassed 100 mln contracts in 2018.
• Daily average volume up 31 pct to 426,213 contracts
• Stock Futures and SET50 Futures as key growth drivers

PEGAS Trading Volumes In December 2018 - PEGAS Closes 2018 With Strong Spot Volumes In December

Date 03/01/2019

PEGAS, The pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, reports another strong month of trading on its spot segment with 95.4 TWh in December 2018, amid the end-of-the-year holiday season. The total volume traded during the last month of 2018 amounted to 158.1 TWh (December 2017: 169.3 TWh). 

CME Group Reached Record Average Daily Volume Of 19.2 Million Contracts In 2018, Up 18 Percent From 2017

Date 03/01/2019

• Record 2018 Interest Rate average daily volume of 9.95 million contracts, up 22 percent compared with 2017
• Record annual average daily volume records in Agricultural Commodities, FX, Metals, total options and electronic options

Palestine Securities Exchange Monthly Investor Newsletter - December 2018

Date 03/01/2019

Click here to download the December 2018 edition of the PEX Monthly Investor Newsletter.

Deutsche Börse Commodities: Xetra-Gold Holdings Rise To 181.47 Tonnes At Year-End - Year-On-Year Increase Of Seven Tonnes / Europe's Largest Gold Security With Physical Backing

Date 03/01/2019

The gold holdings of the exchange-traded bearer bond Xetra-Gold (ISIN: DE000A0S9GB0)  increased to 181.47 tonnes at the end of the year 2018. This is a plus of more than seven tonnes over the course of the year. At the beginning of 2018, 174.24 tonnes of gold were stored in the central vault for German securities in Frankfurt.

Christian Voigt, Fidessa Regulatory Expert On MiFID II Anniversary: Ground-Breaking Or Just More Box Ticking? One Year On And None The Wiser

Date 03/01/2019

MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets regulation. With the scorecard for its first birthday due, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking, or deserving remains debatable. However, there is no doubt about its voluminous size. And it is because of this unusual size that even one year on, we are none the wiser.

Morgan Stanley Retains Global Equity Top Spot With A Market Share Of 9.5%, According To Bloomberg League Table

Date 03/01/2019

Bloomberg has this morning made available its final Q4 / FY 2018 league table reports. The tables represent market leaders across a broad range of deal types, including M&A, Equities, loans and bonds transactions over the last quarter. 

Dame Colette Bowe And Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia Appointed To The UK Financial Policy Committee

Date 03/01/2019

Dame Colette Bowe and Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia have been appointed as external members of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC), the Chancellor announced today (3 January 2019).

EEX Trading Results For December 2018 - EEX Quadruples Trading Volumes On EUA Secondary Market

Date 03/01/2019

In December 2018, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased volumes on its power derivatives markets by 17% to 273.7 TWh (December 2017: 234.5 TWh). In power futures for Germany (Phelix-DE), at 159.1 TWh, trading volumes more than doubled compared to the previous year (December 2017: 72.9 TWh). Trading volumes in Austrian power futures (Phelix-AT) which have increased continuously and significantly since July 2018, reached a new record of 5.8 TWh. As a result, also the Phelix-AT contract has successfully established itself in the market and is increasingly used for hedging purposes. On the Dutch power market, trading volumes increased by 24% to 2.3 TWh (December 2017: 1.8 TWh).