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ISE Holdings Reports Business Activity For September 2015

Date 02/10/2015

• ISE and ISE Gemini combined represent 16.0% of equity options market share, excluding dividend trades.
• ISE and ISE Gemini reported a combined ADV of 2.4 million contracts. 
• Dividend trades made up 0.2% of industry volume in September 2015.

OneChicago Announces Trading Volume For September 2015 – Third Quarter 2015 Trading Volume Increases 14% As Compared With Third Quarter 2014

Date 02/10/2015

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), a securities finance exchange, today announced its September 2015 volume of 964,510, a decrease of 29% year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,800 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

Precious Metals Waver In An Uncertain Market - GoldMoney Weekly Market Report And Client Metrics

Date 01/10/2015

The spectre of a US interest rate hike has come to the fore again this week, pushing the gold price in the opposite direction of the rising dollar.

MIAX Options Ranks #1 In Time At NBBO Among All Options Exchanges For August - Reports September Trading Activity

Date 01/10/2015

MIAX Options Exchange (MIAX®) today announced that it ranked #1 in time at the National Best Bid/Offer (NBBO) among all U.S. Equity Options Exchanges for the month of August and over 20 million contracts were executed on MIAX in September. The over 20 million contracts executed represents a 48% increase from the approximately 13.6 million contracts executed in September 2014, and equates to an average daily volume of over 950,000 contracts. MIAX’s September equity options market share of 6.45% represents a 58% increase from the 4.08% achieved in September 2014.

Platts Report: China Oil Demand Grows 10% Year Over Year In August - Naphtha, Fuel Oil Were Key Drivers

Date 01/10/2015

China's apparent oil demand* rose 10.2% in August from a year earlier to 11.19 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts analysis of Chinese government data.

Reuters Announces Six Reuters-National Association Of Black Journalists Fellowships

Date 01/10/2015

Today Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news provider, announced six Reuters-National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Fellows. The program honors rising reporters, recent graduates or business professionals who demonstrate a clear commitment to a career in journalism and an ability to generate story ideas relevant for a Reuters audience, with a focus on multimedia, using text, video and/or graphics.

CBOE Futures Exchange Reports September 2015 Trading Volume - VIX Futures ADV Up 41% From Year Ago, Down 17% From August - 5.3 Million VIX Futures Contracts Traded

Date 01/10/2015

CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE®) today reported that September average daily volume (ADV) was up 40 percent from September 2014, but down 18 percent from August 2015, when CFE recorded its second-busiest month of all time. 

OCC Cleared Contract Volume Down 3% In September - Securities Lending CCP Activity Grew 29% For September And 15% Year-To-Date

Date 01/10/2015

OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in September was 361,537,608 contracts, off 3 percent from September 2014 volume of 371,034,038 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume dropped slightly by 0.17 percent from 2014 with 16,855,238 contracts in 2015.

MGEX Announces Board Of Directors Election Results

Date 01/10/2015

MGEX, a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), announced the results of its annual Board of Directors (Board) election, held October 1, 2015. Re-elected to the Board were Marc L. Gordon and Murray Stahl. Newly elected to the Board was John A. Griffith. All will serve two-year terms.  

US Justice Department Announces BHF-Bank (Schweiz) AG Reaches Resolution Under Swiss Bank Program

Date 01/10/2015

The Department of Justice announced today that BHF-Bank (Schweiz) AG (BHF) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.