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Singapore Exchange Nikkei 225 Stock Index Futures Contract Breaks Record

Date 12/06/2003

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) today announced that its Nikkei 225 Stock Index Futures Contract traded a daily record volume of 144,289 contracts on 11 June 2003, surpassing its previous record of 128,910 contracts set on 12 March 2003.
SEC Sues Former Dynegy Employees For Fraud

Date 12/06/2003

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed securities fraud charges against three former employees of Dynegy Inc. in connection with their roles in Dynegy's Project Alpha, a $300 million financing transaction that disguised the company's true financial condition. In a civil suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Houston, the Commission is seeking fines and disgorgement of all of the defendants' ill-gotten gains, including bonuses and trading profits received during the period of their
Program Trading Averaged 34.2 Percent Of NYSE Volume During June 2-6, 2003

Date 12/06/2003

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 June 2-6, 2003.
Professor Pedro Schwartz Appointed Chairman Of MTS Spain

Date 12/06/2003

The Board of Directors of MTS Spain today announced the appointment of Pedro Schwartz as Chairman of the company.
NYBOT Selects onExchange For Its New Clearing System - Flexible Framework To Enable Independent Development By Clearinghouses While Providing Common Standard To Clearing Members

Date 12/06/2003

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) and its clearing house the New York Clearing Corporation® (NYCC®) announced today that they have chosen onExchange, Inc.SM, a derivatives and securities trade processing technology vendor, and its Extensible Clearing System (ECS), as the exchange's next-generation futures and options clearing system. The NYBOT plans to implement the new system by year-end.

Mexican Derivatives Exchange Breaks Daily Volume Record With 2,295,130 Contracts

Date 12/06/2003

MexDer, (Mexican Derivatives Exchange) has seen explosive growth in trading volume in June 2003, because 12,570,409 contracts were trade in 11 days.
Josseph de la Vega Prizes 2003 Awarded To Söhnke Bartram And Frank Fehle (Main Prize) And Alexandra Gregoric And Christina Vespro (Special Emerging Markets Prize)

Date 12/06/2003

The Federation of European Securities Exchanges has awarded the Josseph de la Vega prize 2003 to Söhnke Bartram and Frank Fehle for their research paper "Competition among Alternative Option Market Structures: Evidence from Eurex vs. Euwax".
FTSE UK Index Series Changes Announced

Date 12/06/2003

FTSE Group have announced changes to the FTSE UK Index Series following the quarterly meeting of the FTSE independent advisory committee.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange: 51 Shares Have Now Been Selected For MidCap+ And SmallCap+- The New Plus Segments Have Seen Good And Steady Progress

Date 12/06/2003

The shares for MidCap+ and SmallCap+ have now been selected in connection with the first ordinary review. The new MidCap+ and SmallCap+ portfolios will be effective from I July to the turn of the year 2003/2004. A total of 51 shares (50 companies) have qualified for the segments as against 50 shares (49 companies) in connection with the selection in March.
Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Islamic Blue-Chip Indexes - Changes Are A Result Of The Regular Annual Review Of The Indexes

Date 12/06/2003

Dow Jones Indexes today announced component changes in the global Dow Jones Islamic Market Titans 100 Indexes and three subset blue-chip indexes - the Dow Jones Islamic Market U.S. Titans 50, the Dow Jones Islamic Market Europe Titans 25, and the Dow Jones Islamic Market Asia/Pacific Titans 25 after the annual review.