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The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong: Acceptance Of International Accounting Standards (IAS) And Generally Accepted Accounting Principles In The United States Of America (US GAAP)

Date 23/10/2000

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (The Exchange) proposes to amend the Exchange Listing Rules of the Main Board:- to allow listed issuers and listing applicants, which have or are to have a primary listing on the Exchange, to adopt IAS; and to allow overseas-incorporated listed issuers and listing applicants, which have or are to have a secondary listing on the Exchange, to adopt US GAAP.
SWX And Tradepoint Sign Cooperation Agreement

Date 23/10/2000

On 20 October 2000, the SWX Swiss Exchange, Tradepoint and the Tradepoint consortium signed in Zurich the set of agreements that will result in the creation of virt-x, the first pan-European blue-chip stock exchange. The new orientation of Tradepoint requires that approval be granted at the extraordinary general meeting of Tradepoint shareholders to be held in mid-November.
SFE Shares To List On Austock Market

Date 23/10/2000

Shares in the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) will be listed for trading on the Austock-conducted exempt market on Wednesday, 1 November 2000.
Euronext Launches New European Equity Options

Date 23/10/2000

Euronext expands its range of equity options, adding 11 European companies for trading in Paris. All are components of the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50SM index.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 23/10/2000

The market kept shape reasonably well after last week's fallout to record a 0.2% gain for the week on good volumes from all the major counters.

Ariba, Inc., Inc. To Join The Nasdaq-100 Index Beginning October 27, 2000

Date 23/10/2000

Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARBA), of Mountain View, California, will become a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index®, effective at the beginning of trading Friday, October 27, 2000. Shares of Ariba will also be included in the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking StockSM (Amex:QQQ). Ariba will replace NTL Incorporated (NTLI), which is delisting from The Nasdaq Stock Market®.
Trading Of Alcatel Optronics Tracking Stock Commences on Nasdaq

Date 20/10/2000

The Nasdaq Stock Market® announced that shares tracking Alcatel Optronics, the Paris-based division of Alcatel, began trading today under the symbol ALAO. The tracking stock also began trading on the Premier Marché de ParisBourse, France. It is the most recent addition to a growing list of new issues that have joined Nasdaq® this year.
Six Companies Join Roster Of NYSE-Listed Stocks

Date 20/10/2000

In the week ended today, six companies joined the ranks of New York Stock Exchange-listed companies.
OM Group: Offer For London Stock Exchange Plc

Date 20/10/2000

OM notes the outcome of LSE's EGM held yesterday. There is no comfort from the result for LSE's Board given the split vote, and that only 33 per cent. of the shareholder base voted against the resolution. The level of abstentions and the size of the vote in favour of the resolution show that LSE’s Board has no clear mandate for its performance or its defence. OM considers that the timing of the EGM called by LSE was aimed at exploiting cynically the Takeover Code timetable. The cynicism is illus
NYMEX Expresses Outrage At House Passage Of H.R. 4541

Date 20/10/2000

In response to passage by the House of Representatives last night of H.R. 4541, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, New York Mercantile Exchange Chairman Daniel Rappaport issued the following statement: The New York Mercantile Exchange finds it particularly egregious that, by approving subsection (g) (3) of Section 106, the House would not only remove the energy and metals marketplaces from public scrutiny and regulatory oversight, but also do this in a fashion that discriminates be