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  • SAXESS Conversion Training Programme

    Date 09/06/2000

    In October 2000, bonds listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange will be transferred to the SAXESS trading system. In the autumn the Exchange offers to train brokers in the new trading system.

  • PHLX Continues To Post Record- Breaking Options And Equity Volume

    Date 09/06/2000

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that equity volume for the month of May 2000 reached a record 166,067,547 shares traded, a 15% increase over May 1999 when 143,923,060 shares changed hands. Year to date equity volume surpassed 1 billion shares traded, a 36% increase over the first five months of 1999 when approximately 766 million shares changed hands.

  • European Financial Markets Convention

    Date 09/06/2000

    The Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE) for the first time ever is holding its general assembly and accompanying conference in Switzerland. Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter, Chief Executive of the SWX Swiss Exchange, on Thursday welcomed to Lucerne the more than 200 people attending the convention.

  • Eurex Launches Option On Givaudan - Equity Options On New SMI Stock

    Date 09/06/2000

    Eurex, the European derivatives market, is launching equity options on Givaudan on June 19, 2000. Givaudan is a spinoff of the Swiss company Roche and has been traded at SWX since June 8. The company was included in SMI, the SWX blue-chip index, on the same date. Starting on June 19, it will also be possible to trade options and futures on the Neuer Markt blue-chip index, the Nemax 50.

  • CME's E-mini Equity Index Contracts Set New Open Interest Records

    Date 09/06/2000

    Open interest in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) E-mini S&P 500 Stock Price Index and E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index futures contracts both rose to record levels on June 7.

  • CME, CBOT Respond To Commodity Exchange Act Legislation Introduced By Lugar

    Date 09/06/2000

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) issued the following statement in response to the introduction today of Senator Richard Lugar's (R-IN) bill, S. 2697, amending the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA):

  • Tradepoint Financial Networks Plc Connectivity Link With GL Trade Extends Tradepoint's Reach In Europe

    Date 08/06/2000

    Tradepoint Financial Networks plc ("Tradepoint") - the electronic market for equities trading - announced that it has agreed to establish a trading link with GL Trade, a leading provider of financial trading software. The addition of GL Trade's predominantly European customer base, currently around 200 global financial institutions, will further extend the reach of Tradepoint's electronic order book.

  • Tokyo Stock Exchange Announces Participation In Global Equity Market Discussions

    Date 08/06/2000

    Tokyo Stock Exchange today announced its participation in multilateral discussions to explore the feasibility of a Global Equity Market with Australia Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Euronext (Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris), New York Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, and the Bolsa de Valores de Sao Paulo.

  • The New Warsaw Stock Exchange Centre Opened

    Date 08/06/2000

    The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) will soon start moving its offices to a new location in Ksiazeca Street. The construction of the new Exchange Centre has just been completed and today the official opening of the building has taken place.

  • Tallinn Stock Exchange Granted FESE Corresponding Member Status

    Date 08/06/2000

    On 08.06.2000 the general assembly of Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE) granted Tallinn Stock Exchange (TSE) the corresponding member status in FESE.