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Irish Stock Exchange Monthly Statistics - December 2001

Date 03/01/2002

Equity turnover for December was EUR 3,337.11 million while that for bonds was EUR 1,785.16 million.
CBOT Ends 2001 With Second Highest Volume Year In Exchange History Trading 260,333,070 Contracts; December Volume At 19,856,126 Contracts Traded

Date 03/01/2002

The Chicago Board of Trade(CBOT) today announced total 2001 year-end volume of 260,333,070 contracts, an increase of 11.5% from 2000. This represents the second highest yearly volume total at the CBOT, exceeded only in the year 1998 when over 281 million contracts were traded at the exchange.
2001 Is Second Highest Year On Record At CBOE

Date 03/01/2002

Capping off the second strongest year in its history, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, ended 2001 with total exchange-wide volume of 306,669,713 contracts (180,686,938 calls and 125,982,775 puts). Index options exhibited the strongest growth, with year-end total index volume showing a 55% increase over year-ago levels.
2001 CBOT Volume: Year-End Review

Date 03/01/2002

CBOT Shattered 11 Major Open Outcry Volume Records In 2001
Singapore Exchange Limited Achieves All-Time Derivatives Trading Volume Record In 2001

Date 02/01/2002

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) today announced that its derivatives trading volume for the year of 2001 was an all-time record of 30,989,862 contracts, surpassing the previous record annual volume of 27,861,162 contracts set in 1998.

Nymex To Lower Natural Gas Margins On Nearby Months

Date 02/01/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today announced that it would lower the margins on for the first 12 months listed of its natural gas futures and swaps contracts as of the close of business tomorrow.
Nasdaq Tools Offers Broker/Dealers Full Access To The Primex Auction

Date 02/01/2002

Nasdaq Tools® announced today it will provide its broker/dealer clients with access to the Primex Auction System™, a new hybrid auction/dealer trading system operated exclusively by The Nasdaq Stock Market®. Nasdaq Tools is a subsidiary of Nasdaq® and an innovative provider of software quote and order management systems for the securities industry.
Ljubljana Stock Exchange Monthly Statistical Report November 2001

Date 02/01/2002

Turnover In November 2001 the total turnover on all market segments of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange was SIT 40.23 billion and reached the highest monthly value of the year. A record value was reached also by the total turnover of this year since it exceeded the record turnover of the year 2000. In the first eleven months of this year the total turnover on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange amounted to SIT 302.06 billion, which was SIT 32.44 billion or 12% above the year 2000 figure.
Kansas City Board Of Trade 2001 Exchange Volume Second-Largest Ever

Date 02/01/2002

The year 2001 was the second-largest ever in the history of the Kansas City Board of Trade in terms of the volume of contracts traded. Total exchange volume at the Kansas City Board of Trade fell just short of last year's record of 2,664,669 contracts by only 46,180 contracts, which was a decrease of 1.7 percent.
Eurex Turns Over Some 44 Million Contracts In December 2001 - Total Of 674 Million Contracts For 2001 - Up 48 Percent From Previous Year's Figure - Position As World's Leading Derivatives Exchange Further Expanded - Index Products Are Top Products For The

Date 02/01/2002

The international derivatives exchange Eurex closed out the year 2001 with a record volume of more than 674 contracts traded. Eurex thus topped the previous year's total by 48 percent and further expanded its position as the world's leading derivatives exchange. The December turnover figures reflect the rising volumes for the year as a whole: Some 44 million contracts were traded and cleared at Eurex during the last month of the year, representing an increase of 25 percent against the December