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FTSE/JSE Looking Into Transparent Benchmark Index

Date 15/06/2002

Many funds in South Africa are today constructed on a low resource basis and use various proprietary indices as their benchmark.
Trade At The 12 Arab Stock Markets Covered By The Arab Monetary Fund Surged By 50 Per Cent To USD12.8bn In The First Quarter.

Date 14/06/2002

Trade at the 12 Arab stock markets covered by the Arab Monetary Fund surged by 50 per cent to USD12.8bn in the first quarter, reported the latest AMF bulletin. Turnover in Saudi Arabia was up the most, and 80 per cent higher. These figures seem to show that Arab money is being invested in Arabia, and may indicate a repatriation of funds from overseas in the wake of September 11.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Has Published Booklets On JGB And TOPIX Futures & Options

Date 14/06/2002

TSE has published "JGB Futures (June 2002 edition)" and "TOPIX Futures & Options (June 2002 edition)", which introduced JGB Futures, Options on JGB Futures, TOPIX Futures & Options and Equity Options.
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 14/06/2002

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: Effective after the close on Tuesday, June 18, 2002, AVI Software Inc. (TSX:AVF) will be delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange. All the shares of the company have been acquired by Cognicase Inc.
NYMEX: Margins Announced For e-miNY Energy Futures<SUP>SM</SUP>

Date 14/06/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced the margins for the e-miNYSMcrude oil and natural gas futures contracts that will be 40% of the size of the margins for the standard sized contracts.

NYBOT Announces New Records For Its Finex Division

Date 14/06/2002

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT®) announced today three new records for its Finex currency products division for the U.S. dollar/Japanese yen, Euro/Japanese yen, and Euro/Canadian dollar, including:
Euronext: Legal Spin-Off Of Vopak - Consequences For Amsterdam Midkap Index

Date 14/06/2002

Koninklijke Vopak N.V. has announced its intention to hold an extraordinary meeting of shareholders on 17 June 2002 to request approval for the proposed legal spin-off of Vopak's chemical distribution activities in a new company called Univar N.V. Vopak will continue to perform all logistic and other activities.
Euronext: Koninklijke Vopak N.V.

Date 14/06/2002

Koninklijke Vopak N.V. has announced its intention to hold an extraordinary meeting of shareholders on 17 June 2002 to request approval for a proposed rights issue and the proposed legal spin-off of Vopak''s chemical distribution activities in a new company called Univar N.V. The possible consequences of the proposed rights issue and legal demerger are set out in this announcement.
CME Stock Index Products Set Open Interest Records

Date 14/06/2002

Open interest in stock index products traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) set a new record of 1,615,399 positions yesterday, June 13. Volume was boosted by record open interest of 278,499 positions in E-mini™ S&P 500 futures and record open interest of 244,490 positions in E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures.
CFTC Recognizes New Exchange For Single-Stock Futures

Date 14/06/2002

On June 11, 2002, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) granted contract market designation to OneChicago, LLC Futures Exchange, (OneChicago). This is the CFTC's third exchange designation to permit trading of futures contracts on individual securities and narrow-based securities indices (together, security futures products or SFPs) as the CFTC continues with its implementation of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) that lifted an almost twenty-year ban on these cont