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London Stock Exchange: Closing Auction And Closing Price Dissemination - SETS Stocks

Date 10/09/2001

Following a review, the Exchange is making some changes to the closing auction process for SETS securities on 10th September 2001, relating to Price Monitoring Extensions parameters and the length of the potential extension periods. This guidance note highlights the revised timings and details how the closing price will be determined where there is no auction match because of a potential excessive price movement with inadequate volume or no matching orders.
London Stock Exchange Monthly Market Report - August 2001 - Number Of Sets Trades In August 2001 Double That Of August 2000 - Number Of Trades On Sets In First 8 Months Of 2001 Exceeds Total For 2000

Date 10/09/2001

The number of trades on SETS, the Exchange's electronic order-book, was higher in the first eight months of 2001 than for the whole of 2000 reaching 9.1m trades to date in 2001, compared with 8.6m for all of 2000. The number of trades on SETS was up 100 per cent in August 2001 with 1,307,814 trades, compared to 652,565 trades in August 2000. The value traded also increased by 23.9 per cent to £50.4bn in August 2001, compared to £40.7bn in August 2000.
London Metal Exchange Screen Trading System Goes Live - LME Select Heralds New Era

Date 10/09/2001

The London Metal Exchange today successfully launched Release 2 of its screen trading system - LME Select - making it possible for LME member firms to trade any contract in this unique market electronically.
Lån & Spar Bank - New Member Of The Copenhagen Stock Exchange

Date 10/09/2001

Lån & Spar Bank has become a member of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange and begins trading on Tuesday 11 September. Lån & Spar Bank is the ninth new member, which the Copenhagen Stock Exchange welcomes this year, and there are now 48 active members on the Exchange.
Euronext Paris Derivatives Markets Trading In August 2001 Up 62.1% From August 2000 8-Month Total Up 24.8% On A Year

Date 10/09/2001

In August, 22,864,034 futures and options changed hands on Paris Euronext derivatives markets, 62.1% more than in the same month of last year.

Deutsche Börse: Turbon Replaces Adolf Ahlers In The SDAX

Date 10/09/2001

Turbon AG replaces Adolf Ahlers AG in the SDAX as of September 24 since Ahlers is leaving Deutsche Börse's SMAX small-cap quality segment. A company has to be in the SMAX segment in order to be included in the SDAX. Adolf Ahlers will continue to be listed and traded in the first segment (Amtlicher Handel) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse). Deutsche Börse AG announced the change on Monday. The unscheduled index decision will thus be implemented on the same day a
CME Sets New Single-Day Volume, Open Interest Records, Surpassing 3 Million Contracts Traded In One Session

Date 10/09/2001

Trading volume on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. for the first time surpassed 3 million contracts in a single day on Friday, Sept. 7, when 3,272,931 contracts changed hands. The underlying value of Friday's volume was $2.5 trillion. After Friday's close of trading, open interest stood at 15,562,634 positions, also a new record.
CBOT TOPS/Route System Decommissioning Postponed Until Q1 2002

Date 10/09/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade has deferred its decommissioning of the TOPS/Route Order Management System. It is now targeted for First Quarter 2002. TOPS is the CBOT®/CME-owned and supported order management system that was developed by the Exchanges more than 15 years ago.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 10/09/2001

It was a rather subdued market but it did manage to eke out gains of 1.2% on low volumes.
Botswana Stock Exchange Company News

Date 10/09/2001

First National Bank has announced a good set of results for the year ended 30 June 2001, which are in line with market expectations. Net interest income rose 22.5% to P136.7m, while other operating income increased 23.3% to P77.2m. Operating expenditure was up 21% to P89.7m. However, the bank was able to slightly reduce its cost to income ratio from 42.4% to 41.7%. Bad debts provisions were substantially reduced from P25.6m in the previous year to P3.5m following the Hyundai debacle. Net operati