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JSE Equities Market Weekly Statistics For The Week Ended 23.09.2005

Date 27/09/2005

Attached is the weekly report of certain trading statistics. It must be noted that the statistics relevant to foreign transactions only represent transactions executed through the JSE Equities Market.
Final Agreement Between OMX And Orc Software For New Front Office Product

Date 27/09/2005

OMX Technology and Orc Software have today signed an agreement regarding the development of a new front-office product for trading in shares and derivative instruments on multiple electronic markets (Information about the Letter of Intent was communicated in a press release dated June 29, 2005).
Craig S. Donohue Speaks At The China Derivatives Forum

Date 27/09/2005

CME CEO Craig S. Donohue talked about ‘CME’s Leadership in Financial Derivatives’ before the China Financial Derivatives Forum on Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
CMS WebView Plc: Interim Results For The Six Months Ended 30 June 2005

Date 27/09/2005

CMS WebView plc, a leading provider of systems and software for real time data distribution and management, announces interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2005.
CME And MACRO Securities Research Announce Licensing Agreement For Housing Index Derivatives - Futures Contracts For Ten U.S. Cities To Be Based On Case-Shiller Indexes(R)

Date 27/09/2005

CME, the world's largest and most diversified futures exchange, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with MACRO Securities Research, LLC (MSR), a financial innovations firm located in Madison, New Jersey, dedicated to the creation of instruments designed to unlock liquidity in new asset classes, to launch derivatives based on ten of the Case-Shiller Indexes(R) (CSIs), published by Fiserv, CSW Inc. (CSW), representing movements in housing price values. These futures contracts

Clearstream Waives Fees For Banks Using German Securities On Repo Market

Date 27/09/2005

Clearstream has decided to waive its intraday borrowing fees for all borrowers of German securities in Clearstream Luxembourg's fails lending system. This decision will take effect in January 2006. Lenders will continue to be remunerated for allowing their securities to be used in Clearstream's fails lending program.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Announces Date Of Third-Quarter 2005 Earnings Release, Conference Call

Date 27/09/2005

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: CME) will announce earnings for third-quarter 2005 before the financial markets open on Tuesday, October 25. The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time (7:30 a.m. Central time).
Tokyo Financial Exchange Trading Of Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Transactions Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 3 October 2005

Date 26/09/2005

TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for all Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Transactions (except for Exchange Forex Margin Transactions) on 3 October 2005, responding to the release of BOJ's TANKAN report at 8:50am. Opening on that day Pre-open 8:30am - 8:45am (Normal days 8:45am - 9:00am) Open of morning session 8:45am (Normal days 9:00am)
The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks For September 2005

Date 26/09/2005

As of mid-September, short interest in 2,753 NASDAQ National Market® securities totaled 5,650,606,353 shares compared with 5,655,924,426 shares in 2,764 National Market issues for the month of August.
Standard & Poor's Announces The S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index Rebalancing Report For September 2005

Date 26/09/2005

Standard & Poor’s has completed the monthly rebalancing of the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index. According to index methodology, the universe of Canadian bonds is exhaustively reviewed to reflect changes in par amount and term to existing index constituents. Qualifying new issues are added to the index and existing constituents that no longer meet the criteria for inclusion are removed.