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Standard & Poor's Announces New Canadian Indices: The Canadian Income Trust Marketplace Gets Live Index Exposure

Date 11/07/2002

Standard & Poor's and the Toronto Stock Exchange are pleased to announce the launch of three new indices covering the income trust market in Canada. The fastest growing segment of the Canadian equity marketplace, income trusts currently number over 150 issues having a market capitalization of over $45 billion. Two of the new indices will cover specific segments of the income trust market that have garnered the greatest investor attention - Energy and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT). The thi
Program Trading Averaged 32.0 Percent Of NYSE Volume During July 1-July 5, 2002

Date 11/07/2002

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 July 1-5, 2002.
NYSE Seat Sale

Date 11/07/2002

A regular seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold yesterday for $2,500,000, down $50,000 from the prior regular seat sale on June 5, 2002. The market is now: Bid $2,000,000 Offer $3,000,000
Nymex Increases Premium On Qua Iboe For Delivery Against Light, Sweet Crude Futures

Date 11/07/2002

The New York Mercantile Exchange board of directors has approved raising the premium for delivery of Qua Iboe crude oil against the light, sweet crude oil futures contract to $.15 per barrel from $.05 per barrel.
Nasdaq Peak Data Feed Message Rates For June 2002

Date 11/07/2002

Nasdaq® reports its peak message rate statistics for its data feed products on a monthly basis. During the month of June 2002, Nasdaq supported the following three data feed products in production: the Level 1 ServiceSM, the Nasdaq Quotation Dissemination ServiceSM (NQDSSM), and the Nasdaq Trade Dissemination ServiceSM (NTDSSM). For the month of June 2002, the peak traffic rates for these data feeds were as follows:

London Stock Exchange: UK Business Steps Up Campaign For Stamp Duty Abolition

Date 11/07/2002

Business, industry and financial market leaders will come together at a special conference in September to debate the serious damage being inflicted on the UK economy by stamp duty on share dealing.
Euronext Ends Laurus Listing Measure

Date 11/07/2002

In the company prospectus that it published on 11 July 2002, Laurus shows that it has sufficient equity to comply with Euronext Amsterdam's admission rules. For this reason, the management of Euronext Amsterdam has decided to end the listing measure (also known as ''the penalty bench'') regarding Laurus with effect from 11 July 2002.
Euronext Amsterdam Derivatives Market Speeds Up Move To Screen Trading - Royal Dutch And Unilever To Migrate At 19 August

Date 11/07/2002

After successfully migrating one third of its Amsterdam traded equity options from floor to screen, Euronext has decided to speed up the process in response to requests from market participants. Options on blue chip Royal Dutch will be migrated to screen trading as early as 19 August 2002, several months ahead of earlier plans. Options on blue chips such as Unilever, DSM, KLM and Reed Elsevier will move to screen trading on the same day. Euronext changed its deadline to complete the move from op
Deutsche Börse Completes Clearstream Transaction. Integration Plan Of Clearstream To Be Implemented

Date 11/07/2002

Deutsche Börse on Thursday successfully completed the acquisition of Cedel International including Cedel's 50 percent stake in Clearstream International. Cedel shareholders received a total of 1.76 billion euros: 1.6 billion euros for Clearstream plus 0.16 billion euros representing the final net value of Cedel's remaining assets. This makes the Clearstream acquisition the largest corporate transaction in the exchange industry's history. The purchase price was financed by proceeds from
CBOT And Eurex Reach Agreement On Open Issues And Refocus The a/c/e-alliance - CEOs Ferscha And Vitale Announce New Cooperative Framework In London - Increased Flexibility In Product Offerings, Technology And Future Strategy

Date 11/07/2002

Eurex, the leading international derivatives market, and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's oldest and third-largest international derivatives exchange, have restructured their a/c/e alliance. The new agreements, which replace all former contracts, focus on continuing the technological cooperation between the two exchanges. Furthermore, the two exchanges have agreed to permit each partner to independently launch new products denominated in US-Dollars and Euros, respectively, outside