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  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Equity Office Announce 10&30 Renovation And New 20 South Wacker Address

    Date 09/04/2003

    Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and Equity Office Properties Trust today detailed plans to create a prominent, dedicated Wacker Drive entrance and interactive Visitors' Center for CME, along with significant lobby improvements for 10&30 South Wacker Drive. Construction will begin in April, and the project will give CME its own new address, 20 South Wacker Drive. The two-building "Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center" complex is owned by a joint venture between Equity Office and Lend Lease,

  • BrokerTec Futures Exchange - Block Trading Facility Revised (Rule 406)

    Date 09/04/2003

    This Bulletin supersedes Bulletin #01-6 dated November 28, 2001 as discussed below. The Board of Directors of BrokerTec Futures Exchange (BTEX) has approved revisions to both Rule 406 and the Market Maker Program (Program) that expands the block trading privilege to BTEX Clearing Members by removing a provision in the Program that restricts the ability to effect block trades to Market Makers. As a result, all Clearing Members will be able to effect block trades pursuant to amended Rule 406. Thi

  • UK's Financial Services Authority Publishes New Analysis On Relevance Of Past Performance Data

    Date 08/04/2003

    The Financial Services Authority has today published an independent analysis by Professor David Blake, of Birkbeck College, University of London, and Professor Allan Timmermann, of University of California, San Diego, of the relevance of past performance data for consumers' investment decisions.

  • The Options Clearing Corporation Advances Towards Straight-Through Processing For Options

    Date 08/04/2003

    Marking a major advancement toward straight-through processing, The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)today announced that its new clearing system ENCORE, is now accepting for immediate processing trades sent during the day by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). It is OCC's goal to have all of the U.S. options exchanges submitting near real-time trades by the end of this year.

  • Regulators Issue Interagency Paper On Sound Practices To Strengthen The Resilience Of The U.S. Financial System

    Date 08/04/2003

    Three federal regulatory agencies today issued an "Interagency Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U.S. Financial System." Among other things, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission identified sound practices to strengthen the resilience of critical U.S. financial markets and minimize the immediate systemic ef

  • Nymex To Waive Fees For New Electricity Contract

    Date 08/04/2003

    The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today that it will waive transaction fees for its monthly financially settled Pennsylvania/New Jersey/ Maryland (PJM) electricity futures contract for the first six months.

  • New Member Of Stockholmsbörsen

    Date 08/04/2003

    FIM Securities Ltd, based in Helsinki in Finland, has been admitted as new member of Stockholmsbörsen and will commence trading in SAXESS from Tuesday 15 April 2003.

  • London Stock Exchange Monthly Market Report For March 2003 - Number Of Trades On SETS Up 90 Per Cent On March 2002

    Date 08/04/2003

    The average daily number of UK and international trades on the London Stock Exchange in March 2003 was 227,907 compared with 207,476 in March 2002 (a 10 per cent increase). The total value of UK and international trades in March 2003 was £274 billion, down from £408 billion. There were 21 business days in March 2003 compared with 20 in March 2002.

  • HKEx Announces Termination Of Real-Time Calculation And Dissemination Of All Ordinaries Index And Growth Enterprises Index

    Date 08/04/2003

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announces today (Tuesday) the termination of real-time calculation and dissemination of its All Ordinaries Index (AOI) and Growth Enterprises Index (GEI) with effect from 14 April 2003. The AOI tracks the performance of shares listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange and the GEI tracks the performance of shares listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).

  • FTSE Group To launch Global Small Cap Series

    Date 08/04/2003

    FTSE Group, the global index provider, today announces that it will create a new Global Small Cap index series to complement its existing large and mid cap indices, the FTSE All-World Index series. Together, the FTSE Global Small Cap series and the FTSE All-World will cover 98% of the world's investible market capitalisation. The new indices will be available and integrated with the FTSE All-World series from 22 September 2003.