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  • CBOT Thanksgiving Day Holiday Trading Schedule

    Date 01/11/2005

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) has established the following trading schedule in connection with the Thanksgiving Day holiday: Wednesday, November 23 Open auction:  Agricultural and Financial contracts will close at 12:00 p.m.  (Mini-sized ag contracts will close at 12:30 p.m.)  Stock Index contracts will close at 3:15 p.m. Electronic trading:  Dow/AIG Commodity IndexSM contrac

  • CBOT Forges A Relationship With Dubai Gold And Commodities Exchange

    Date 01/11/2005

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that the Exchange has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) with the purpose of facilitating cooperation between the two exchanges.

  • CBOT Fed Funds October Settlement

    Date 01/11/2005

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) 30-Day Fed Funds futures contract for October 2005 will be cash settled this morning at a final settlement price of 96.221, implying an average daily effective federal funds rate of 3.779 percent during the delivery month. Please refer to the attached spreadsheet for more information regarding the calculation of this settlement.

  • CBOT Average Daily Volume Climbs 3.5 Percent In October And 15.8 Percent YTD - Exchange Open Interest Grows 6.4 Percent YOY And 11.7 Percent Over September

    Date 01/11/2005

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT® ) announced today that Exchange-wide average daily volume climbed to a new high for October. Average Daily Volume (ADV) for October rose to 2,356,354 contracts, up 3.5 percent, compared to 2,277,655 contracts in October 2004. Total Exchange ADV Year-To-Date (YTD) increased by 15.8 percent to 2,727,162 contracts, up from 2,254,205 contracts reported in October 2004.

  • Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchanges: For The First Time Open End Certificates On CASE30 Index Issued To Be Listed And Traded On International Markets

    Date 01/11/2005

    In line with the CASE ongoing plan to attract more foreign investments, ABN-Amro Bank together with CASE agreed to issue Open End Certificates on CASE30 Index to be traded on international stock markets. The bank will issue 500 thousand certificates in Euro to be listed and traded on 4 international stock markets, starting with Swiss Exchange, followed by Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana, respectively.

  • Boston Options Exchange October Volumes Reach Record Highs

    Date 01/11/2005

    For the month of October, 2005, BOX’s average daily volume jumped to 454,184 contracts, a 34.5% increase over the previous month, and a 33.7% increase over the previous record set in July, 2005. The NASDAQ 100 Shares (QQQQ) led the charge, trading 55,651 contracts per day, an increase of 100% over the previous month, and new record. A trading volume record for a single session was established on October 19, 2005, when BOX executed 649,875.

  • Archipelago Exchange To Launch Technology ETF - Archipelago Furthers ETF Listing And Trading Leadership With Exclusive Listing Of The ArcaEx Tech 100 ETF

    Date 01/11/2005

    The Archipelago Exchange(R) (ArcaEx(R)), the nation's first totally open, all-electronic stock exchange, today announced that Archipelago Holdings, Inc. in conjunction with Ziegler Capital Management, LLC, has filed documents with the SEC to create a new technology ETF named The ArcaEx Tech 100.* The ETF, sponsored by Ziegler Capital Management, LLC, is expected to launch in early 2006 under the ticker AXT, and will be listed exclusively on ArcaEx. The ETF will be benchmarked to the ArcaEx Tech

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Reports On Its Performance

    Date 31/10/2005

    The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today published its performance against service standards for the last six months; announced two new standards and tightened the standards for five processes.

  • TSX Group CEO Visits India - October 31-November 3, 2005

    Date 31/10/2005

    TSX Group Inc. CEO Richard Nesbitt is in India for a series of meetings that will include the annual meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and then a series of meetings with the Mumbai financial community.

  • The MICEX Stock Market And The MICEX Are Finalizing The Development Of The “REPO With Bonds” Trading Mode

    Date 31/10/2005

    The boards of the MICEX and the MICEX Stock Exchange have adopted regulatory documents modifying the existing procedure of carrying out REPOs with bonds in the exchange market and determining the new pricing policy of the MICEX Group in this segment of the market. Trading in the “REPO with Bonds” mode are to be launched before the end of 2005, after the RF Federal Service for Financial Markets approves the “Rules of Trading in Securities on the MICEX Stock Exchange” and “The MICEX Rules of Rende