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OM To Launch First UK Electricity Futures Market

Date 18/11/1999

The UK Power Exchange, OM's electricity market for the UK today announced that it will create the UK's first electricity futures market from May 2000. This follows OM's announcement in June 1999, that it would create UK's first Power Exchange, to be known as UKPX.
Five Petition Candidates Added To CBOT Election Ballot

Date 18/11/1999

Five candidates have been added by petition to the ballot for the December 8, 1999, Chicago Board of Trade annual election. In addition to nominees previously announced by the CBOT Nominating Committee, the annual election ballot will include:
CBOT Leaders Respond To Petition Vote

Date 18/11/1999

CBOT Chairman David P. Brennan and CBOT President Thomas R. Donovan issued the following joint statement today regarding the petitions vote by CBOT members yesterday.
Canadian Dealing Network Passes Yearly Record

Date 18/11/1999

The Canadian Dealing Network (CDN) today reported a new annual trading record. Volume reported as of last night's close was 2,985,175,438 shares, surpassing the previous record of 2,975,886,218 set in 1997.
Revised CBOT/MIDAM Thanksgiving Day Schedule

Date 17/11/1999

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange (MidAm) have established the following Thanksgiving Day holiday trading schedules:

Osaka Mercantile Exchange RSS3 Futures And Rubber Index Futures Weekly Report

Date 17/11/1999

Distant month: opening 85.30 yen, a high 86.60yen (Nov. 8), low 83.10 yen (Nov. 11), closing 85.50 yen.
Osaka Mercantile Exchange Aluminium Futures Weekly Report

Date 17/11/1999

Distant month: opening 163.9 yen, a high 163.9 yen (Nov. 8), a low 160.8 yen (Nov. 12), closing 160.8 yen.
Nasdaq Shatters Share Volume Record Also Sets New Record For Transaction Volume

Date 17/11/1999

The Nasdaq Stock Market® announced today that it had its biggest share volume day ever, with a preliminary figure of 1,646,000,000 shares traded. Nasdaq's previous record was set yesterday (November 16), with 1,495,994,800 shares changing hands. Six of the 10 highest share volume days in Nasdaq's history have occurred during the past two weeks.
ASX Launches Retail Interest Rate Market

Date 17/11/1999

Australian retail investors have a new and exciting opportunity to diversify their portfolios with the launch of the Australian Stock Exchange's screen-traded Interest Rate Market tomorrow. This will make it as easy to identify, trade and settle retail interest rate securities as it is for shares.
Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange (TIFFE) Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On November 29

Date 16/11/1999

Trading hours for all contracts of the Exchange will start from 8:45a.m. on November 29, 1999 responding to MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry)'s announcement that the Preliminary Report on Indices of Industrial Production, Producer's Shipments and Producer's Inventory (Oct. 99) will be released at 8:50a.m. on this day.