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KCBT Trading Volume Second-Highest In Exchange History

Date 01/07/2002

The Kansas City Board of Trade total exchange volume traded in June 2002 was the second-highest ever as 348,134 contracts were traded, trailing record-holding June 2001 volume by merely 1.2 percent.
June Volume: CME's June Volume Of 49.9 Million Is Highest On Record, As CME Posts Sixth Consecutive Record Volume Quarter

Date 01/07/2002

Monthly Trading volume in June on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) reached an all-time record 49.9 million contracts with an underlying value of $31.4 trillion. CME's second quarter volume of 138.7 million contracts represented the exchange's sixth consecutive quarter of record volume, 41 percent higher than the second quarter of 2001.
Euronext.liffe To Bring Global Access And Accurate Pricing To US Swap Futures Market - Euronext.liffe Launches Dollar Denominated Swapnote® Futures Contract

Date 01/07/2002

Euronext.liffe today announced the launch of a suite of $ Swapnote® futures contracts based on the US swap curve.
Eurex Turns Over 67 Million Contracts In June - Record Trading Volumes In Equity Index Products - Total Of 368 Million Contracts Traded In First Half Of 2002

Date 01/07/2002

Some 67 million contracts were traded and cleared at Eurex, the international derivatives market, in June. Compared with June 2001, the world's leading derivatives exchange expanded in volume by about 26 percent. For the first half of the year, the growth in volume was about 14 percent, rising to the highest mid-year volume to date of about 368 million contracts traded.
CFTC Staff Allows Eurex Deutschland's Futures Contract Based On The Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index And JSE Securities Exchange South Africa's Futures Contract On The FTSE/JSE 40 Top Companies Index To Be Offered And Sold In The United States

Date 01/07/2002

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Office of General Counsel (OGC) issued no-action letters on June 28, 2002, permitting the offer and sale in the United States of Eurex Deutschland's (Eurex) futures contract based on the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index (Global Titans 50) and JSE Securities Exchange South Africa's (JSE) futures contract based on the FTSE/JSE 40 Top Companies Index (FTSE/JSE Top 40).

Cattle Futures To Be Launched On Sydney Futures Exchange

Date 01/07/2002

In conjunction with Meat and Livestock Australia Limited, SFE Corporation Limited announced the listing of its first Sponsored Product, the MLA/ SFE Cattle Futures contract to be traded on the Sydney Futures Exchange. Trading is scheduled to commence at 10:00am on Tuesday the 13th of August 2002.
Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

Date 01/07/2002

The market ended in positive territory despite marginal losses on some of the heavyweight counters.
315 Billion Euros In Turnover On German Stock Exchanges In June - Xetra Record In MDAX Stocks - Record Turnover In Xetra XXL

Date 01/07/2002

A total of some 315.5 billion euros in volume was traded on the German stock exchanges in June; turnover was thus 2 percent higher than the previous month's figure (May 2002: 309 billion euros). The total volume comprises 240.2 billion euros in equities, warrants and exchange-traded funds as well as 75.3 billion euros in fixed-income securities. For the first half of 2002, total volume came to 1.9 trillion euros - 24 percent lower than the total posted for the same period of last year (first hal
TSX Welcomes World's Stock Exchanges To Toronto On Canada Day

Date 29/06/2002

Delegates from 28 of the world's leading stock exchanges are in Toronto July 1-3 for a meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges' Working Committee. A Working Committee is typically held once a year at a member exchange in the Americas, in Asia/Pacific and in the Europe/Africa regions. The Toronto Stock Exchange previously hosted the meeting on April 27, 1988. Next week's session will focus specifically on corporate governance and the role of exchanges and on the internalization of order f
Securities And Exchange Commission - Litigation Release No. 17594 / June 28, 2002 - Accounting And Auditing Enforcement Release No. 1586 / June 28, 2002 - Securities and Exchange Commission v. WorldCom, Inc., Civil Action 02 CV 4963 (S.D.N.Y.) (June 27, 2

Date 29/06/2002

Based upon a joint agreement between the Commission and defendant WorldCom, Inc., U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff today entered an order: Directing WorldCom and its affiliates to preserve all items relating to WorldCom's financial reporting obligations, public disclosures required by the federal securities laws, or accounting matters. Providing for the Court to appoint a Corporate Monitor having oversight responsibility with respect to all compensation paid by WorldCom. T