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KCBT Announces Member Dividend - For Seventh Year In A Row, Kansas City Board Of Trade Pays Dividend

Date 11/01/2005

The board of directors of the Kansas City Board of Trade at the December 16 board meeting declared a dividend for 2005 for all full members (Class "AA" Members) of record as of Nov. 30, 2004. A dividend of $4,000 per share will be paid in January 2005.

Instinet Group Announces December 2004 Transaction Information

Date 11/01/2005

Instinet Group Incorporated (NASDAQ:INGP) today announced December 2004 transaction data for its two major business segments: Instinet, The Unconflicted Institutional Broker and INET, The electronic marketplace.

HKEx And PCCW Introduce Next Generation Network For Securities And Derivatives Markets

Date 11/01/2005

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) and PCCW today announced that PCCW has been selected as the service provider for HKEx’s new Internet Protocol (IP) – based integrated network for securities and derivatives markets (SDNet).

Global GICS Sector Snapshot, December 2004

Date 11/01/2005

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Euronext.liffe Commodity Products Set 3rd Consecutive Annual Volume Record In 2004

Date 11/01/2005

Euronext.liffe’s Commodity Products set a 3rd consecutive annual volume record of 8,007,318 contracts during 2004, an increase of 21% when compared to 2003 and breaking the previous record by over 1.3 million contracts.

Eurex US Martin Luther King Jr. Day Trading Schedule

Date 11/01/2005

Eurex US has established the following trading schedule in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

Dexia, KBC Join BondVision As Volumes Hit Fresh Record

Date 11/01/2005

BondVision, the B2C (Business-to-Consumer) arm of the MTS Group, is pleased to announce that Dexia Bank and KBC Bank, both leading financial institutions in Europe and particularly in Belgium, have joined its consortium of dealer participants effective today.

CME Eurodollar Futures Set New Open Interest Record

Date 11/01/2005

CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, set a new open interest record yesterday for the world’s most actively traded futures contract, CME Eurodollar futures. Open interest of 7,081,570 broke the previous record of 7,066,935 set on December 9, 2004. Open interest reflects the total number of contracts that have not yet been offset or fulfilled for delivery.

Closure Of Bursa Malaysia Berhad - Market Holiday

Date 11/01/2005

Bursa Malaysia Berhad would like to announce that the office of Bursa Malaysia Berhad Group would be closed as follows: Date Public Holiday

Changes For Calsonic Kansei Corp In S&P Japan Smallcap 250 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Date 11/01/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 Indices effective after the close of trading, Tuesday January 18th 2005: Calsonic Kansei Corp (Japan, SEDOL: 6639840, GICS: Consumer Discretionary, GICS Code: 25101010) a member of the S&P Japan SmallCap 250 and S&P Japan 500 indices, shares will increase by 52,000,000 to 269,056,816 due to its private placement.