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KCBT Delists ISDEX® Futures And Options

Date 29/01/2003

The board of directors of the Kansas City Board of Trade voted yesterday to delist and declare dormant the ISDEX® futures and options contracts traded at the exchange. The action is effective immediately. The contracts have no open interest and have not had significant trading volume for several months.
HKEx: Temporary Interruption In HKATS operations

Date 29/01/2003

HKATS, the Hong Kong Futures Automated Trading System, experienced a temporary interruption from 16:11 to 16:20 and resumed normal operations thereafter.
Euronext.liffe Market Solutions Newsletter

Date 29/01/2003

I have great pleasure in attaching a copy of the Euronext.liffe first Market Solutions newsletter. It provides an update on Euronext.liffe's current projects with TIFFE, the CBOT and NQLX as well as the migration of the Paris and Brussels markets. It also explores some of the functionality provided by LIFFE CONNECT trading platform.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Focus: Short selling - A Positive Contribution To The Equity Market

Date 29/01/2003

Short selling is an important equity market activity that supports more liquid and efficient markets. This is the preliminary assessment in a report issued by the FSA, the British financial supervisory authority. The report has been submitted for consultation in the public until 31 January 2003.
CBOT January 2003 Fed Watch

Date 29/01/2003

In advance of next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on January 29, the Chicago Board of Trade is reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.

American Stock Exchange Celebrates 10 Years Of The SPDR - SPDR Assets Surpass $35 Billion Mark With Average Daily Volume Of 34 million Shares

Date 29/01/2003

With assets topping more than $35 billion and average daily trading of 34 million shares, the American Stock Exchange (Amex) today celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the start of trading in its flagship exchange traded fund (ETF), SPDR - Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts ("Spider").
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes To Global Index Website Access

Date 28/01/2003

Standard & Poor's wishes to announce that, effective February 5, 2003, the website to access global index information will be changed from www.spglobal.com to www.standardandpoors.com. Users seeking information about Canadian indices specifically should select Canada from the drop-down menu at the top of the home page or browse "S&P Canadian Indices" on the left-hand side of the home page.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 28/01/2003

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: After the close of trading on Tuesday, January 28, 2003, Metalex Ventures Ltd. (TSXVN:MTX.T) will change its ticker symbol to "MTX" pursuant to a Company Filing Statement dated January 21, 2003. There is no consolidation of capital.
SGX Releases Practice Notes 5.1 And 7.1

Date 28/01/2003

SGX has issued Practice Note 5.1 on Term Sheet for Structured Warrantsand Practice Note 7.1 on Continuing Disclosure . Click on documents to view. The Practice Notes will be effected from 29 Jan 2003.
Securities And Futures Commission And HKEx: New Memorandum Of Understanding Governing Listing Matters

Date 28/01/2003

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today. The MOU takes immediate effect and replaces the memorandum, its addendum and supplements which were signed between the two organisations in March and August 2000.