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Information Regarding Easter In The Production And The CDS Environments For Millennium Exchange On Oslo Børs

Date 22/03/2013

In connection with Easter, Oslo Børs would like to remind clients of changing opening hours and consequences for the production and the CDS environments for Millennium Exchange on Oslo Børs.

Opening hours - the production environment

The Millennium Exchange production environment for Oslo Børs will, until the Burgundy markets are live from 3 June 2013, follow the Norwegian trading calendar as specified in the market models.

Due to the Easter holiday Oslo Børs is closed for trading the following days:

  • Thursday 28 March
  • Friday 29 March
  • Monday 1 April

As usual, there is half trading day on Wednesday 27 March with the following opening hours (CET):

Equities

 

- Pre trading
- Regular trading
- Closing auction call *
- Post close
* Trade in ETFs, ETNs and warrants close at 13:00 without closing auction call

08:15 - 09:00
09:00 - 13:00
13:05
13:05 - 13:55

Bonds

 

- Pre trading
- Regular trading

08:15 - 09:00
09:00 - 12:00

Derivatives

 

- OBX Futures
- Other derivatives: same opening hours as the underlying instruments

08:30 - 13:00
09:00 - 13:00

 

Reference data files for the first trading day after Easter, Tuesday 2 April, will be available after the trade closes on Wednesday 27 March, i.e. somewhat earlier than usual.

CDS environment - opening hours and reference data files

As previously announced, the CDS environment is now upgraded with the Burgundy segments. The trading calendars for the Nordic markets are different, and the trading calendar of each market will set the opening hours of the CDS environment.
The CDS environment is open as normal for all markets on Monday 25 March and Tuesday 26 March. On Wednesday 27 March the Norwegian and Danish markets are available in CDS half trading day, while the Swedish and Finnish markets are available all day. On Thursday 28 March the  CDS is closed for the Norwegian and Danish markets, the Swedish market is available half trading day, while the Finnish market is available all day. Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April the CDS is closed for all markets.

Oslo Børs personnel are available until close Wednesday 27 March.

On Wednesday 27 March reference data files will be published as normal, with Thursday's date. There will also be generated new reference data files on Thursday 28 March as normal, for the first trading day after Easter, Tuesday 2 April. Reference data for the Norwegian and Danish markets will here be identical to the data in the files produced on Wednesday 27 March, since these markets are closed on Thursday.

After the Burgundy markets are launched on the Millennium platform in June, the general scheme regarding holidays will be that new reference data files will be generated the day before, as long as one of the markets are open the next day. The contents of the reference data files will then be applied to the market that is open and new files for the next trading day will be generated after the market has closed.