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NYSE Applauds President Bush For Nomination of Harvey Pitt As SEC Chairman

Date 10/05/2001

"I applaud President Bush for nominating Harvey Pitt as chairman of the SEC. Harvey has a deep understanding of the broad range of participants that make our financial markets the strongest and most admired in the world. Most important, he recognizes that if you serve the interests of the smallest investor, you serve the interests of all. Harvey's a man of great integrity and diverse experience, and he is an outstanding choice to lead the SEC in this critical period in the development of America
Nymex To Amend Post-Close Trading Rules

Date 10/05/2001

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., will make several changes to the post-close trading sessions for crude oil, heating oil, unleaded gasoline, and natural gas beginning tomorrow (11 May, 2001).
Minneapolis Wheat Options Open Interest Tops 10,000

Date 10/05/2001

The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) announced today that open interest in hard red spring wheat options topped 10,000 contracts for the first time ever on May 3 and has climbed steadily higher since then. Open interest yesterday, May 9, stood at 10,288 contracts. The previous daily open interest record before this, established October 19, 1999, was 9,481 contracts.
KCBT Wheat Options Volume Surpasses All Previous Single-Day Records

Date 10/05/2001

Trading volume in Kansas City Board of Trade wheat options on Wednesday set a new single-day record. Wednesday's official wheat options volume was 4,322 contracts, which broke the previous single-day record of 3,460 contracts set barely a year ago, on May 5, 2000.
HKEx Hosts Regional Meeting Of ISSA, The International Securities Services Association

Date 10/05/2001

Josef Landolt, chairman of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA), urged securities clearing organisations in Asia Pacific to follow developments in Europe carefully. "By watching European re-orientation from a safe distance, your region may be able to draw valuable conclusions for your own future," he said.

CFTC and SEC Propose Joint Rules Relating To Security Futures Products

Date 10/05/2001

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that they proposed joint rules to implement new statutory provisions relating to security futures products.
CBOT President Vitale To Be Featured Speaker At June 7 FIA Program

Date 10/05/2001

Chicago Board of Trade President/CEO David J. Vitale will be the featured speaker at the Futures Industry Association Chicago Division luncheon program, Thursday, June 7, 2001.
Standard & Poor's – Index Change: S&P Global 1200, S&P/TSE 60, S&P/TSE 60 Capped, TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian Midcap, S&P/TSE Canadian Smallcap, TSE 100, TSE 200 And Toronto 35 Indices

Date 09/05/2001

Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Operations announces that the following changes will take place in the S&P Global 1200, S&P/TSE 60, S&P/TSE 60 Capped, TSE 300 Composite, TSE 300 Capped, S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap, TSE 100, TSE 200 and Toronto 35 Indices after the close of trading on Thursday, May 10, 2001.
Record April For IPE

Date 09/05/2001

April 2001 volume was the highest April ever recorded on the IPE. Total traded volume hit 2,153,641 lots (equivalent to 1.6 billion barrels). This compared to the 1,752,853 lots (almost 1.3 billion barrels) traded in the same period of the previous year. The increase in volume shows a year on year growth rate for April of 22.86%.
New Participant On SWX: ABN AMRO Bank N.V., London Branch

Date 09/05/2001

The SWX Swiss Exchange has accepted ABN AMRO Bank N.V., London Branch, as a participant.