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LIFFE Trades Record £301 Billion Per Day In September 2000

Date 03/10/2000

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) traded a record average daily nominal value of £301 billion (?433 billion) and a total value of £6,332 billion (? 9,118 billion) in September 2000. LIFFE has traded a nominal total value for the year of £50 trillion, maintaining its position as the world’s largest electronic exchange by value.
irasia.com Opens Singapore Office

Date 03/10/2000

irasia.com, the world’s leading online platform providing Investor Relations (IR) information on Asian listed companies, today announced the opening of its new Singapore office.
HKFE Sets Margin Rates For Mini-HSI Futures And Margin Offset between Mini-HSI Futures And HSI Futures

Date 03/10/2000

Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, announced today (Tuesday) that margin rates for the Mini-Hang Seng Index (Mini-HSI) Futures contract will be one-fifth of the margin rates for the Hang Seng Index (HSI) Futures contract. HKFE also said it would allow a hundred per cent margin offset between Mini-HSI Futures contracts and HSI Futures contracts at a ratio of 5 to 1.
First American Primary Listing On The SWX New Market

Date 03/10/2000

The shares of e-centives, Inc. a e-business company, were traded today for the first time on the SWX New Market. The offering price was set at CHF 19. At the start of trading on SWX, the stock stood 10% above that level at CHF 20.90, representing a total market capitalization for the company of CHF 316,6 million.
Euronext Disseminates Its First Indices: Euronext 100 And Next 150

Date 03/10/2000

EURONEXT, the first European exchange, disseminates its first indices, EURONEXT 100 and NEXT 150.

CME Volume In September Rises 9.2 Percent Year-to-Date As Equity Index Volume Sets All-Time Record - Electronic GLOBEX®2 Volume Of 23.2 Million Increases 103.7 Year-to-Date

Date 03/10/2000

Trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) rose 9.2 percent year-to date through September, as trading volume in equity index products set a new all-time monthly volume record of 6.2 million contracts. September's total of 19.2 million contracts surpassed previous month figures by 22.8 percent and previous year volume by 6.3 percent.
CME Columbus Day Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 03/10/2000

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has announced the following trading schedule for the Columbus Day holiday:
CBOT September Volume 16.6 Million - a/c/e 1st Month Trade 2 Million

Date 03/10/2000

The Chicago Board of Trade trading volume for September 2000 was 16,632,375 contracts. The new a/c/e electronic trading platform completed its first month with volume at 2,005,061 contracts, and average daily volume of 100,253.
CBOE's Record Year For Volume Continues In September

Date 03/10/2000

Trading volume at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, continued to surpass record levels established last year as 24,499,014 options contracts (15,483,740 calls and 9,015,274 puts) traded in September, an 11% increase over the year ago September volume of 22,117,972 contracts. Open interest in all CBOE listed options stood at 50,387,103 contracts at month's end, 45% higher than the close of September last year when open interest stood at 34,698,022 co
Xetra Release 5.0 Launched Successfully On October 2 - Enhanced Flexibility With Order Types

Date 02/10/2000

A new version of the Xetra electronic trading platform, so-called Release 5.0, was introduced on Monday. With the new Xetra version, Deutsche Börse AG is above all making additional functionalities available to market participants: So-called iceberg orders and market-to-limit orders further enhance trading flexibility. The iceberg order allows a trader to enter high-volume orders but only part of the volume is displayed to the market as a whole; new trading strategies are supported on X