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LIFFE trading system gains access to the United States

Date 26/07/1999

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) welcomed the decision by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue a no-action letter on Friday 23 July permitting LIFFE to grant direct access from the United States of America to its new electronic trading system, LIFFE CONNECT™ .
KLOFFE'S John Duggan Joins KLSE Group

Date 26/07/1999

The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has appointed John Duggan as Group Advisor, Derivatives Markets. Duggan is presently the Chief Operating Officer of the Kuala Lumpur Options & Financial Futures Exchange (KLOFFE), a KLSE company. The appointment is effective August 1, 1999.
Bahrain Stock Exchange SICO Weekly Report & Market Survey

Date 26/07/1999

All the Gulf stock markets were down last week: Bahrain -0.5%, Saudi -0.3%, Kuwait -2.4%, UAE -1.4% and Oman -4.4%. On the BSE, out of the 26 active companies this week, 12 declined and only 4 increased in value.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong launches investor education programme on bond trading

Date 23/07/1999

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong is embarking on an investor education programme to promote the understanding of retail bond trading.
New opening hours at Amsterdam Exchanges

Date 23/07/1999

As announced previously, trading in a large number of Amsterdam Exchange products will begin at 09:00 with effect from August 1, 1999.

NASD Opposes SEC Approval of NYSE's Anti-Competitive Amendment to Rule 500

Date 23/07/1999

The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®), today declared its strong opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) approval of an amendment to New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Rule 500. Even as amended, Rule 500 continues to impede competition for NYSE listings; it is unjustifiable, is clearly not in the best interests of the marketplace, and may be a violation of the anti-trust laws.
HEX commences legal proceedings against OM for trading in "Finnish" products

Date 23/07/1999

Helsinki Exchanges (HEX) has demanded arbitration proceedings concerning earlier agreements with OM. HEX claims that "Finnish" companies such as Nokia should not be allowed to have either their shares or share options listed on the OM Stockholm Exchange.
CBOT, CME and NYMEX Respond to CFTC Proposal For Change in Futures Contract Approval Process

Date 23/07/1999

The three largest U.S. futures exchanges, The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) today issued the following statement in response to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) proposed change to the regulatory approval process for new futures contracts: "By accepting that exchanges should have the ability to list contracts for trading without the delay of a lengthy regulatory approval process, the CFTC has taken a key
Near Real-Time Statistics to be Included on the Nasdaq-Amex Newsroom

Date 23/07/1999

The Nasdaq-Amex Market GroupSM today announced that statistics measuring the performance of The Nasdaq Stock Market® and the American Stock Exchange® will be added to the award-winning Nasdaq-Amex NewsroomSM Web site (www.nasdaq-amexnews.com). This groundbreaking new feature, which will include near real-time data, will appear on the site beginning today.
Three Dow Jones Extra Liquid Indexes To Be Added To The Dow Jones Real-Time Datafeed

Date 22/07/1999

On July 25, three new Dow Jones Extra Liquid Indexes: Australia, Hong Kong and Japan will be added to the Dow Jones Real-Time Data Feed. These indexes will be disseminated in 15 second intervals over the Dow Jones datafeed of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) market data ticker network.