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SGX China A50 Index Futures In Focus

Date 15/09/2014

• Following last weekend data, the FTSE China A50 Index is currently off 0.5%, trading below 7,300. Ahead of the data, China equities were observed to be attracting inflows from foreign investors.
• Some resonation was observed in SGX China A50 Index Futures. These futures contracts act as a proxy for the Chinese A-shares, and saw a healthy spike in interest in August, with open interest hitting a high of 532,003 on 25 August 2014.
• Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect is anticipated to boost trading in China’s onshore markets and the SGX China A50 Index Futures. The futures tracks the performance of the underlying FTSE China A50 Index, which has a 97% correlation with the SSE180 Index.

BATS Chi-X Europe And BX Swiss Partner To Bring Greater Competition To The Swiss Equities Market

Date 15/09/2014

BATS Chi-X Europe (BATS), Europe’s largest stock exchange by value traded and BX Swiss (BX), Switzerland’s only independent exchange, have announced a partnership agreement that will bring greater competition and enhanced market efficiencies to the Swiss equities market.

ASIC Grants First Trade Repository Licence

Date 15/09/2014

ASIC has granted an Australian derivative trade repository (ADTR) licence to DTCC Derivatives Repository (Singapore) Pte Ltd (DDRS). 

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Reversed Futures Delivery Rules

Date 15/09/2014

Approved by CSRC, ZCE reversed Futures Delivery Rules of Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange in August, 2014. For details, please visit:

http://english.czce.com.cn/enportal/rootfiles/2014/08/27/1406897782445114-1406897782447800.pdf.

Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd., China Southern Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Beijing SINA Internet Information Service Co. Ltd.: Big Data Series Indices Issued

Date 15/09/2014

Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd., China Southern Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Beijing SINA Internet Information Service Co. Ltd. recently announced to issue Big Data Series indices on September 12, 2014. The Big Data Series indices include CNI Big Data 100 Index (Code: 399415, Abbreviation: i100), CNI Big Data 300 Index (Code: 399416, Abbreviation: i300), both of which take January 29, 2010 as the base day and 1000 point as the base value.

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange Launched Ferroalloy Futures

Date 15/09/2014

On August 8, 2014, ZCE has launched two new futures contracts, Ferrosilicon and Silicon Manganese. The new ferroalloy futures contracts enriched the hedging opportunities for steel industry.

BIS Quarterly Review September 2014 - On-The-Record Remarks By Mr Claudio Borio, Head Of The Monetary And Economic Department, And Mr Hyun Shin, Economic Adviser & Head Of Research, 12 September 2014

Date 14/09/2014

Financial market volatility has again been hovering around the exceptionally low levels of 2004 to 2006, although it has picked up somewhat in the last few days. In general, volatility has been exceptionally low across the whole spectrum of asset classes. To be sure, equity markets fell and volatility went up in late July and early August on the back of poor macroeconomic news in Europe and increasing concerns about the situation in Eastern Ukraine and the Middle East. Investors, particularly retail investors, withdrew from the market for high-yield bonds, pushing spreads up by some 70 basis points in the United States and 130 basis points in the euro area. But the sell-off ended as quickly as it had started. By late August, equity prices had mostly recovered their losses and volatility was back to the depths seen in early July. As I speak, credit spreads for lower rated corporates remain higher than in early July. But from a longer perspective the rise in the summer was a blip. The search for yield has resumed in force.

The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) Extends Trading Technology Contract With NASDAQ OMX - EGX, The Middle East's Oldest Exchange Will Continue Operating The X-Stream Trading Engine

Date 14/09/2014

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) have entered an agreement to extend the current contract for EGX till January 2020 to tap NASDAQ OMX's X-stream trading technology, the most widely deployed exchange technology in the world.

Cairo Amman Bank Weekly Economic Monitor

Date 14/09/2014

Click here to download Cairo Amman Bank's Weekly Economic Monitor.

HKEx Completes Second Round Market Rehearsal For Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Date 14/09/2014

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that the second round market rehearsal (MR2) for Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect has been completed smoothly.  The MR2, which was held yesterday (Saturday), was primarily arranged to verify contingency arrangements upon simulated system failover from primary to backup data centre and system capacity.