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  • KCBT Changes Minimum Margins For Trading Wheat

    Date 24/09/2002

    The Kansas City Board of Trade has raised its minimum margins for wheat futures contracts. The changes, effective tomorrow, come as a result of increased market volatility and are as follows:

  • International Securities Exchange Reduces Order Exposure Time - Facilitation Order Exposure Reduced From 30 To 10 Seconds

    Date 24/09/2002

    This Friday, September 27, the ISE will implement a rule revision, approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which reduces the time that the facilitation mechanism exposes such an order to the trading "crowd" from 30 seconds to 10 seconds.

  • Euronext Hosts World Federation Of Exchanges Annual Meeting

    Date 24/09/2002

    The 42nd annual meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges will be held in Amsterdam from 6 to 10 October 2002, featuring speeches by: His Royal Highness Crown Prince Willem Alexander Frits Bolkestein, European Commissioner Wim Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank

  • Dynegy Settles Securities Fraud Charges Involving SPEs, Round-Trip Energy Trades - Company Will Pay $3 Million Civil Penalty, Cease And Desist From Violating Anti-Fraud Provisions Of Federal Securities Laws

    Date 24/09/2002

    The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a settled enforcement action today against Dynegy Inc., in connection with accounting improprieties and misleading statements by the Houston-based energy production, distribution and trading company. The Commission's case arises from (i) Dynegy's improper accounting for and misleading disclosures relating to a $300 million financing transaction, known as Project Alpha, involving special-purpose entities (SPEs), and (ii) Dynegy's overstatement of its e

  • CBOT Fed Watch

    Date 24/09/2002

    In advance of this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 24, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.<