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Stock Exchange of Thailand Summary Of Securities Trading In 2000 And In December 2000

Date 03/01/2001

The Stock Exchange of Thailand today released the official figures of securities trading for the year 2000 and in December 2000, which recorded the total market turnover of 60,502.56 million shares in volume and 923,696.83 million baht in value. The SET Index closed on December 29 at 269.19, down by 212.73 points or 44.14 % from the previous month. Derivative Warrants for SCB Preferred Shares (SCB-C1) was the most active stock with total trading volume of 3,536,019,600 shares, representing Bht.
Nasdaq Trades More Than Three Billion Shares For The First Time

Date 03/01/2001

The Nasdaq Stock Market® announced today that it experienced its heaviest trading session ever, with preliminary figures showing than 3.120 billion shares were traded. It was the first time more than 3 billion shares were traded on Nasdaq. Nasdaq’s previous record was set on April 4, 2000, when 2.88 billion shares changed hands.
Kansas City Board Of Trade Elects Officers, Directors For 2001

Date 03/01/2001

The members of the Kansas City Board of Trade yesterday elected Craig N. Deeds to the office of chairman for 2001.
HKEx Exchange Participants To Have Access To Information Via Email On The Seven Nasdaq Stocks Traded In Hong Kong

Date 03/01/2001

Starting 1 February, Stock Exchange Participants will be able to receive daily email news on the seven Nasdaq stocks traded under the Stock Exchange's Pilot Programme. Stock Exchange Participants will also be able to receive research reports on the Pilot Programme stocks via email.
CBOT 2000 Volume 233,528,558 Contracts; a/c/e Tops 8.6 Million

Date 03/01/2001

Chicago Board of Trade total year 2000 volume of 233,528,558 contracts marked the seventh consecutive year CBOT® trading volume topped 200 million contracts. December trade was 15,533,833. Yearly records were set by 11 Treasury and Agency complex futures and options. Volume on the a/c/e system hit 8,630,085 from its late August launch to year’s end.

2000 Is A Year For The Record Book At CBOE, Now The Largest Exchange In Chicago

Date 03/01/2001

Trading volume at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the world's largest options exchange, totaled 24,601,882 options contracts (14,395,460 calls and 10,206,422 puts) in December, a decline of 11% over the year ago total, but with two fewer trading days. For the month, a total of 20,837,326 stock options contracts (12,728,998 calls and 8,108,328 puts) traded, while total index option volume of 3,761,908 contracts (1,665,660 calls and 2,096,248 puts) traded. Average daily volume in Decemb
Standard & Poor's – Index Change

Date 02/01/2001

Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces that effective after the close of business on Thursday, January 18, 2001, the following changes will take place in the TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 Indices.
New Year’s Speech Euronext

Date 02/01/2001

Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, 2 January 2001 Speakers: Jean-François Théodore Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Euronext N.V. George Möller Chief Operating Officer, Euronext N.V.
Nasdaq Concludes Record Volume Year As Demonstrated In Preliminary Year-End Results

Date 02/01/2001

The Nasdaq Stock Market® closed down for the year, ending five consecutive years of record gains. The year 2000 was, however, a year of record volume. There were 47 trading days in 2000 where volume exceeded two billion shares traded on Nasdaq®. Share volume reached 439.6 billion, up from 272.6 billion in 1999—a 61 percent increase for the year. The market value of the more than 4,700 companies listed on Nasdaq ended the year at $3.6 trillion, down 31 percent from year-end 1999.
Kansas City Board Of Trade Annual Volume Tops 1999 By Nearly 6 Percent

Date 02/01/2001

The Kansas City Board of Trade started off the 2000s with another record-breaking year as more contracts changed hands in 2000 than in any year in its 144-year history.