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  • HKEx: Announcement On Amendments To Chapter 17 Of The Main Board Listing Rules Share Schemes

    Date 23/08/2001

    The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Exchange") has amended Chapter 17 (Share Schemes) of the Main Board Listing Rules. A number of the restrictions in the existing rules will be relaxed such as the number of options that can be granted under share schemes, the maximum limit on options that can be granted to an individual participant and the identity of participants of share schemes. The relaxation will allow greater flexibility in the operation of share schemes.

  • CME Open Interest Continues Upward Climb - Eurodollar Options Best Previous Open Interest Records

    Date 23/08/2001

    Open interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) continued to push higher this week with a record 14,826,160 open positions yesterday, August 22, surpassing the previous day's record of 14,784,890.

  • Australian Stock Exchange Limited Welcomes Increased Voting Power Limit.

    Date 23/08/2001

    Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) welcomes today's decision by the Senate to approve, as part of the Financial Services Reform legislation, an increase in the permitted voting power in ASX from 5 per cent to 15 per cent of issued shares. ASX congratulates all those involved in this important initiative, which received all-party support.

  • Stock Exchange Of Thailand Pleased With First Six-Month Period - Listed Companies Report 275% Rise In Net Profit

    Date 22/08/2001

    Mr. Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan, President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) said: "Net profits for the six-month period in 2001 were 126,526 million baht while net losses of 72,167 million baht were reported for the same period a year earlier. Excluding companies that were undergoing rehabilitation (REHABCO), overall operational performance of listed companies increased 394% on net profits of 129,038 million baht in the six-month period this year against net looses of 43,873 million baht in t

  • Nasdaq Liffe Markets Approved By Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

    Date 22/08/2001

    Nasdaq Liffe Markets (NQLX) today announced that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved NQLX as a futures market and Self Regulatory Organization (SRO). The first products to be traded by NQLX will be single stock futures. NQLX is the first U.S. exchange to be approved to trade these new instruments. Trading of single stock futures was legalized with the repeal of the Shad-Johnson Accord, a result of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act that was signed into law December

  • LIFFE Announces Increased Profit In First Half

    Date 22/08/2001

    The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) announces increased profit in the six months to 30 June 2001.

  • HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Stock Futures

    Date 22/08/2001

    Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), will implement stock futures market changes on Monday, 27 August. The stock futures market changes include standardising the contract specifications, where the contract multipliers of the existing stock futures contracts will be changed to one board lot size of their underlying shares, the same as the contract size for stock options. Therefore, the margin levels of the existing Stock

  • Extraordinary General Meetings Of Oslo Børs Holding ASA And Of Oslo Børs ASA

    Date 22/08/2001

    In accordance with the Prospectus for the sale of shares in Oslo Børs Holding ASA, new boards of directors have been elected for both Oslo Børs Holding ASA and Oslo Børs ASA by general meetings of the two companies. The companies both held Extraordinary General Meetings on Tuesday 21 August 2001, at which Svein Støle, Bente A. Landsnes and Knut Norheim Kjær were elected as new board members.

  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., CheMatch.com Announce Sept. 21 Launch Of Benzene, Mixed Xylenes Futures Contracts

    Date 22/08/2001

    Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and CheMatch.com, Inc., today announced a launch date of September 21 for the CME-CheMatch benzene futures contract announced earlier this year. On the same day, CME will launch a second co-branded chemicals product with CheMatch- mixed xylenes futures, officials said today.

  • CBOT To Launch New Mini-sized Dow Contract On September 30

    Date 22/08/2001

    Complementing its existing DowSMJones complex, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that it will launch a mini-sized DowSMfutures contract based on the DJIASM (DowSMJones Industrial Average) on September 30, 2001. The CBOT® will launch this new contract exclusively on the a/c/e trading platform.

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