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Stock Exchange Of Thailand Board Appoints Chavalit Thanachanan As Its 11th Chairman

Date 06/08/2001

Mr. Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan, President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), said that today's (August 6) special meeting of the SET board passed a unanimous resolution appointing Mr. Chavalit Thanachanan as the board's new chairman. Mr. Chavalit, a representative of the committee members appointed by the SEC, is replacing Mr. Amaret Sila-On, whose time in office has now expired.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Continues To Set Record Volume

Date 06/08/2001

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that 179,662,406 shares traded for July 2001. This represents a 31% increase over the same month last year when 136,980,844 shares traded. Equity trading volume for the first seven months of 2001 reached 1.2 billion shares traded. The PHLX currently trades nearly 2,200 equities.
HKEx: Stock Options Trading Successfully Moved To HKATS

Date 06/08/2001

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that Derivatives Trading Integration was successful today (Monday, 6 August) with the migration of stock options trading to HKATS, the Hong Kong Futures Automated Trading System. Stock options had been traded on TOPS, the Traded Options System. Clearing and settlement of stock options trades continues to be performed on TOPS.
CME Eurodollar Futures And Options Set Open Interest Records

Date 06/08/2001

Open interest in Eurodollar futures and options on futures traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) set records Friday, Aug. 3, at 4,668,396 and 7,235,279 positions respectively. The previous Eurodollar open interest records were established on June 15, 2001, at 4,650,957 in futures and on June 14, 2001, at 7,163,892 positions in options.
CHF 99,399 Million In Turnover On SWX In July

Date 06/08/2001

A total volume of CHF 99,399 million was traded on SWX in July, 4.0 percent less than the month before. The total comprises CHF 78,894 million in equities (including funds), CHF 14,828 million in bonds, CHF 2,827 in derivatives, CHF 205 in Exchange Traded Funds, CHF 1,316 in USD denominated Eurobonds, CHF 1,270 in EUR denominated Eurobonds and CHF 58 in GBP denominated Eurobonds.

Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 06/08/2001

The market remained a beehive of activity as the index gained 13.72 points (0.6%) to close at 2156.76 points.
Botswana Stock Exchange Company News

Date 06/08/2001

Barclays has released interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2001. Net interest income rose a good 27.8% from P90.8m to P116.0m. Other operating income continued to show strong growth of 31% from P46.4m to P60.9m. Operating expenses increased rapidly by 26.6% from P51.9m to P65.7m. Despite the increase, the bank's respectable cost : income ratio improved marginally from 37.8% to 37.2%. Whilst there was a net bad debt recovery of P1.9m in H1 2000, the bad debt provision in H1 2001 stood a
CBOE: July Index Volume Up 121% - Exchangewide Open Interest Up 73%

Date 04/08/2001

Total index option volume for the month of July at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) rose 121% to 5,735,564 contracts (2,851,380 calls and 2,884,184 puts), from 2,600,544 contracts in July 2001. Total year-to-date index volume was up by 44% to 41,212,185 contracts, from 28,647,287 contracts in July 2000.
WCE Total Volume For 2000/01 Crop Year Reaches All-Time Record Levels

Date 03/08/2001

New all-time records were set during the 2000/01 crop year in futures and options volumes at WCE. Total futures and options trade combined during the August 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001 crop-year set an annual record at 2,854,331 contracts, surpassing the previous record by 20.4% which was established in the 1999/00 crop year.
WCE Focus On Canola Price Trends

Date 03/08/2001

Over the past few months, WCE canola futures prices have been trending upward, since April 2001, the nearby canola futures price has ranged from a low of Cdn$272.10/tonne in mid-April 2001 to a recent high of $363.00/tonne in mid-July 2001, a range of approximately $90.00/tonne. During the same period the nearby Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures price (adjusted for currency) has gone from a low of $240.00/tonne to a high of $299.00/tonne, a range of almost $60.00/tonne.