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Annual Reweighting Of The AEX-Index And Amsterdam Midkap Index

Date 01/03/2001

BeUnder the rules of the AEX-index (AEX) and the Amsterdam Midkap index (AMX), both indices are reweighted annually on the first tradingday of March. On the basis of this reweighting, the following changes are made to the indices.
Migration Swiss Auctions Of First Issues Through Eurex Repo As Of End Of February - Auctions For Registered Money-Market Claims And Swiss Federal Bonds In Two Steps - Karl Hug, SNB: "Utilization Of The Electronic Trading System Boosts Efficiency"

Date 28/02/2001

Eurex, the European exchange organization, is expanding its line of products and functionalities on the Eurex Repo platform: As of the end of February, auctions of first issues of Swiss registered money-market claims and Swiss federal bonds will be carried out via the electronic trading platform that Eurex has been operating for repo trading since June 1999. The company made the announcement on Wednesday. The electronic issuing procedure replaces the existing auctions by fax and phone and is di
Launch Of First German Derivatives Exchange For Electricity With 20 Participants - Broad-Based Support From Energy Sector And Banks

Date 28/02/2001

The derivatives market for electricity of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) will be launched on March 1st with 20 participants, as the company reported on Wednesday. In the first German derivatives exchange for electricity, participants will be able to trade futures on electricity. EEX will start out with two futures, on base-load and peak-load blocks. Trading on the futures market will be carried out via the trading system of the derivatives exchange, Eurex.
Deutsche Börse Launches Xetra XXL, Block Trading On Xetra - Xetra XXL offers First Exchange-based, Fully Electronic Block Trading Facility - Avoids Negative Price Effects And Increases Process Efficiency - Market Launch On March 2, 2001

Date 28/02/2001

On March 2, Deutsche Börse is launching Xetra XXL, with a new form of trading for so- called block-crossing of shares, as the company announced on Wednesday. The new functionality is designed for trading by institutional investors with large order volumes and runs on Xetra, the fully electronic trading platform. Deutsche Börse is the first European exchange to offer fully electronic, exchange-based block trading in equities. With Xetra XXL, according to Deutsche Börse, institutional investors be
CME Open Interest Posts New Record At 10.6 Million As Eurodollar Becomes World’s First Futures To Surpass 4 Million In Open Interest

Date 28/02/2001

Open interest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) set a record for the second consecutive day yesterday, Feb. 27, at 10,604,085 positions. Eurodollar futures, CME’s flagship interest rate product and the world’s most actively traded futures contract, set a new open interest record of more than 4 million positions. This milestone marked the first time any futures contract in the world has exceeded 4 million in open interest.

Closure Of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange

Date 28/02/2001

The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) wishes to announce that the offices of the KLSE Group will be closed on Tuesday, 6 March 2001 in conjunction with Hari Raya Aidil Adha.
CBOT to Host Crop Report Briefing March 8

Date 28/02/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade will conduct the third in its 2001 series of crop report briefings for the media and members following release on Thursday, March 8, 2001, of the latest crop supply/demand report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
CBOT Members Set New a/c/e High, Trading Hits 269,975 Contracts

Date 28/02/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade announced February 28 that its members set a new daily volume record February 27 at 269,975 contracts traded on the a/c/e electronic trading platform, jointly developed by CBOT® and Eurex. The record day's volume shattered the former peak of 199,598 contracts set on February 22, 2001, while establishing new records in the 30-Year T-Bond, and the 10-Year, and 5-Year Note futures contracts.
CBOE Appoints Tony McCormick To Board of Directors

Date 28/02/2001

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, today appointed Tony McCormick, Vice President of Derivative Markets at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., to its Board of Directors. Mr. McCormick's term will begin immediately, and he replaces James M. Hackley, Chief Executive Officer of CyBerCorp Holdings, a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation.
ASX Announces 18% Increase In Operating Profit After Tax

Date 28/02/2001

The Result Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) today announced an operating profit after tax of $27.13 million, an increase of 18% on the $23.01 million recorded for the previous corresponding period. The Board has declared a fully franked interim dividend of 26.8 cents per share. This compares to the dividend of 24.3 cents per share paid in the previous corresponding period and effectively represents a fully franked payout ratio of 100% of profit after tax. This payout ra