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Maiden Listing At Labuan International Financial Exchange Rescheduled For Better Timing

Date 27/04/2001

The first company to be listed on the Labuan International Financial Exchange (LFX) has rescheduled its listing plan in favour of better timing.
HKEx Introduces New Input Price Restriction For Odd Lot / Special Lot Orders

Date 27/04/2001

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce new order input restrictions to AMS/3, the Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System, on Monday, 21 May 2001 to prevent non-odd lot trading and erroneous trades in the odd lot/ special lot market.
CME To Change Order Quantity Restrictions On Equity Index Contracts

Date 27/04/2001

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) announced it will revise its current order quantity limits in E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts effective May 6. The move follows CME Board initiatives begun last August to expand customer access and trading choices on the GLOBEX®2 electronic system.
Change Of HEX's Corporate Name

Date 27/04/2001

The name of the corporation Helsinki Exchanges Group Oyj has been changed. The new name of the company is HEX Oyj, in English HEX Plc. The seat of the company is Helsinki.This change has been made today in the Trade Register in accordance with the decisions made by the General Meeting of Shareholders of the Helsinki Exchanges Group Oyj.
Program Trading Averaged 27.1 Percent Of NYSE Volume during April 16-20, 2001

Date 26/04/2001

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for April 16-20.

Nasdaq To Become A Public Company

Date 26/04/2001

The Board of Directors of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (Nasdaq®), announced today its decision to become a publicly traded company.
Meeting Of the Oslo Stock Exchange Board On 25 April 2001

Date 26/04/2001

At a meeting held yesterday, 25 April 2001, the Stock Exchange Board resolved to admit shares in Scribona AB to listing on the Main List and to admit shares in Pan Pelagic ASA to listing on the SMB List. The Stock Exchange Board also resolved to remove shares in Nortrans Offshore Limited, RC-Gruppen ASA and Industriinvestor ASA/Telecast Group AS from listing. The Stock Exchange Board imposed violation charges on three companies for breaches of the duty of disclosure.
Ljubljana Stock Exchange: Slovenian Know-How Implemented In Macedonia

Date 26/04/2001

On 25 April 2001, at the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Macedonian Stock Exchange, Macedonian Prime Minister, Mr Ljubco Georgievski, started the trading on the electronic trading system - BEST that had been developed by the know-how and the transfer of technologies of the BTS trading system of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange. Dr Drasko Veselinovic, President & CEO of the LjSE, as well as Mr Mitja Strukelj, Slovenian Ambassador to Macedonia, and Mr Bojan Skoda, State Undersecretary from
Competing Exchanges: London Stock Exchange’s Don Cruickshank Sets Out Vision For Single Clearing And Settlement Structure

Date 26/04/2001

Don Cruickshank, Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, today set out a vision for a single European clearing and settlement infrastructure which would remove current barriers to a low cost capital market in Europe.
CBOE: MNX Sets Single-Day Volume Record

Date 26/04/2001

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that a single-day volume record for trading options on the popular index product MNXSM, was established on Wednesday, April 25, when a total of 72,650 contracts (31,001 calls and 41,649 puts) traded. The MNX was launched eight months ago, in August 2000, as an exclusive CBOE product.