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The Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm become the OM Stockholm Exchange

Date 01/07/1999

From 1 July, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm will merge, becoming the company the OM Stockholm Exchange - OM Stockholmsbörsen AB - with the activities of the Stockholm Stock Exchange and OM Stockholm combined in this newly incorporated entity. The OM Stockholm Exchange's President is Carl Johan Högbom.
NYSE Announces Third-Quarter 1999 Circuit Breaker and Trading Collar Levels

Date 01/07/1999

The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit breaker and trading collar trigger levels for third-quarter 1999, effective Thursday, July 1.
NYMEX Sets Monthly Copper Volume Record in June

Date 01/07/1999

A monthly volume record for COMEX Division copper futures was established in June with 319,157 contracts traded by month's end, surpassing the previous monthly volume record of 296,162 contracts traded in April of this year.
NYMEX Offers to Purchase Majority Shares of IPE

Date 01/07/1999

The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) this morning sent a letter to the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), offering to purchase between 55 and 70% of the IPE under the same for-profit holding company structure offered to it in a proposal presented by outside investors.
Iceland Stock Exchange receives new operating licence

Date 01/07/1999

Effective today, July 1st, the Iceland Stock Exchange has been issued an operating licence as a stock exchange and a regulated securities market by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in accordance with the Act on Stock Exchanges and Regulated Securities Markets no. 34/1998. This is the first exchange licence to be issued under this law and in effect confirms that the Iceland Stock Exchange fulfills all the requirements of Icelandic law and the relevant E.U. directives.

Eurex Sets New Worldwide Record in Trading Volume in June

Date 01/07/1999

June was a record month for the Eurex derivatives market in several respects. With volume of 38.4 million contracts traded, Eurex beat its previous record of 33.8 million contracts traded in March, thus setting another new worldwide benchmark. The June contract volume is about 88 percent higher than the number traded in the same month of last year. A total of more than 177 million contracts were traded during the first six months of 1999, more than one and a half times the number traded in all o
DEBS to start trading on 1st July

Date 01/07/1999

In response to the growing demand for pan-European trading, MEFF Renta Fija will launch a new futures contract known as DEBS, a contract designed for then Eurozone, referenced against benchmark issues of the four core economies in the euro zone, which together account for more than 80% of the GDP in the EMU. The basket will consist of 30% German debt, 30% French debt, 20% Italian debt and 20% Spanish, respecting the risk symmetry between France and Germany on the one hand and Italy and Spain on
CME's Volume Sets New June Record - Many Equity index Products Set All-Time Monthly Volume Marks

Date 01/07/1999

Trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) last month set a new record for any June, with 20,340,792 contracts changing hands, an increase of nearly 14 percent over the previous month's levels. Total futures volume of 17,180,656 also was a June record.
CME Announces Regular Quarterly Revision of Price Limits For Equity Index Products Effective Thursday, July 1

Date 01/07/1999

Regular quarterly revision of price limits for equity index futures and options traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) become effective with the start of trading Thursday, July 1, 1999, at 8:30 a.m. (Chicago time).
CBOT Sets New Daily Volume Record In Wheat Futures

Date 01/07/1999

The Chicago Board of Trade announced on June 30 that its members traded more wheat futures contracts on Tuesday, June 29, than during any day in the exchange's 151-year history.