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Date 31/12/1999
Nasdaq Concludes Record-Breaking Year As Demonstrated In Preliminary Year-End Results
The Nasdaq Stock Market® is ringing in the new millennium with a fifth consecutive year of record gains. The year 1999 also produced 136 trading days where volume exceeded one billion shares traded on Nasdaq®. Share volume reached 265.6 billion, up from 201.5 billion in 1998-a 32 percent increase for the year. The market value of the more than 4,800 companies listed on Nasdaq ended the year at $5.2 trillion, up over 100 percent from year-end 1998.
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Date 31/12/1999
Changes To The List Of Securities For Calculating The RTS Indices
The existing methodology of the RTS indices calculation is based on the price information on the shares, included in the A category list of the RTS listed securities. According to the RTS Board of Directors decision starting from 1 January 2000 A and B category classification of the RTS securities will be cancelled.
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Date 31/12/1999
1999 ASX Year-End Statistics
The domestic market capitalisation of the Australian Stock Exchange at the end of 1999 was AUD652 billion a 21.6 per cent increase compared to the end 1998 figure of AUD536 billion. Domestic market capitalisation as a percentage of GDP was 95.0% at the end of 1999 compared to the end 1998 figure of 83.7%. There was no change in market liquidity which was 53.0% in 1999 and 1998.
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Date 30/12/1999
Tradepoint Millennium Weekend Status
The Tradepoint Stock Exchange's Millennium Weekend programme is progressing on schedule and the market will be open for business at 08:00 on Tuesday 4th January 2000.
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Date 30/12/1999
The Toronto Stock Exchange New Years Trading Hours
The Toronto Stock Exchange will be closing trading at 1:00pm on December 31, 1999. This special arrangement will allow securities firms to get an early start on processing year-end transactions. The TSE will also be closed Monday, January 3, 200 in lieu of January 1 2000 (New Years Day).
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Date 30/12/1999
The Stock Exchange Of Hong Kong Is Fully Prepared For The Y2K Rollover
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong is fully prepared for the Y2K rollover. Rectification of the Exchange's securities and options trading systems, information services system, and other internal systems have been completed as early as mid-1999. A comprehensive Y2K contingency plan is in place and tested. The Exchange has also established co-ordination with other market operators, regulators and business partners to manage any possible Y2K problems.
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Date 30/12/1999
The January Effect Appears To Be Occurring As The Year Ends At The KCBT
The market phenomenon dubbed the January Effect appears to be occurring at the Kansas City Board of Trade. In recent weeks the Value Line® contracts have been outperforming most other financial indexes on a fairly consistent basis. This held true yesterday as the Value Line contracts outperformed most of the other financial indexes. Investors have been buying the Mini Value Line futures contract and selling other stock index futures contracts, particularly the S&P. Yesterday this led to a big sp
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Date 30/12/1999
Record Trading Year For London's Equity Markets
The London Stock Exchange saw record volumes traded on its international and domestic markets during 1999 - with international business up 10.1 per cent by value and domestic business up 36 per cent.
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Date 30/12/1999
Program Trading Averaged 15.5 Percent Of NYSE Volume During Dec. 20-23
The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Dec. 20-23. The data indicated that during Dec. 20-23, program trading amounted to 15.5 percent of NYSE average daily volume of 861.5 million shares, or 133.8 million shares a day.
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Date 30/12/1999
MAS News Release On Collective Custodial's Offer For CLOB Securities
MAS, as the regulatory authority under the Securities Industry Act (Cap.289), has noted Collective Custodial Services (Asia) Pte Ltd's ("Collective") proposals for migration and disposal of Clob securities as reported in the Straits Times and other local media on 28 December 1999.
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