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  • Stock Exchange Of Thailand Pleased With First Six-Month Period - Listed Companies Report 275% Rise In Net Profit

    Date 22/08/2001

    Mr. Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan, President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) said: "Net profits for the six-month period in 2001 were 126,526 million baht while net losses of 72,167 million baht were reported for the same period a year earlier. Excluding companies that were undergoing rehabilitation (REHABCO), overall operational performance of listed companies increased 394% on net profits of 129,038 million baht in the six-month period this year against net looses of 43,873 million baht in t

  • Nasdaq Liffe Markets Approved By Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

    Date 22/08/2001

    Nasdaq Liffe Markets (NQLX) today announced that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved NQLX as a futures market and Self Regulatory Organization (SRO). The first products to be traded by NQLX will be single stock futures. NQLX is the first U.S. exchange to be approved to trade these new instruments. Trading of single stock futures was legalized with the repeal of the Shad-Johnson Accord, a result of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act that was signed into law December

  • LIFFE Announces Increased Profit In First Half

    Date 22/08/2001

    The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) announces increased profit in the six months to 30 June 2001.

  • HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Stock Futures

    Date 22/08/2001

    Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), will implement stock futures market changes on Monday, 27 August. The stock futures market changes include standardising the contract specifications, where the contract multipliers of the existing stock futures contracts will be changed to one board lot size of their underlying shares, the same as the contract size for stock options. Therefore, the margin levels of the existing Stock

  • Extraordinary General Meetings Of Oslo Børs Holding ASA And Of Oslo Børs ASA

    Date 22/08/2001

    In accordance with the Prospectus for the sale of shares in Oslo Børs Holding ASA, new boards of directors have been elected for both Oslo Børs Holding ASA and Oslo Børs ASA by general meetings of the two companies. The companies both held Extraordinary General Meetings on Tuesday 21 August 2001, at which Svein Støle, Bente A. Landsnes and Knut Norheim Kjær were elected as new board members.