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  • CME Lean Hog Volume Hits New Daily High

    Date 10/06/1999

    Volume in futures on lean hogs traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) set a new record yesterday of 17,529. The previous record was set on December 14, 1998, with 17,435 contracts traded. Average daily volume is 9,763 year-to-date. Each lean hog contract represents 40,000 pounds of 170 to 191 pound dressed hogs and are 51 percent to 52 percent lean. The CME introduced the successful lean hog contract in 1995 in response to customer demand to have a contract that better reflected the pri

  • The Copenhagen Stock Exchange postpones the start of the joint market until 21 June

    Date 09/06/1999

    The Copenhagen Stock Exchange has decided to postpone the start of the joint market with OM Stockholm Exchange (NOREX) until 21 June 1999. The decision is due to the fact that Danish members, who account for a significant share of the trading on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, will not be ready by 11 June. This means that the press meeting on June 11 in Stockholm, Copenhagen and on Bornholm is postponed.

  • London Stock Exchange Transaction Survey Shows Foreign Investment Increasing

    Date 09/06/1999

    London's equity market is attracting more foreign investors - with the biggest increase coming from US institutions trading European equities - according to figures released by the London Stock Exchange on June 9. The survey of London Stock Exchange Transactions shows that the proportion of deals in UK stocks conducted on behalf of foreign clients rose to 36 per cent (by value) in November 1998 from 20 per cent in 1996.

  • GEM offers unique attractions to Silicon Valley companies

    Date 09/06/1999

    The Growth Enterprise Market, GEM, offers some unique opportunities to Silicon Valley companies, according to Alec Tsui, Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Mr Tsui was speaking on Tuesday, June 8 at the Hong Kong Night in San Francisco, California. The conference was organised by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco and the Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre. He stressed that GEM was not a second tier market, or a training market where companies could pre

  • ASX and SFE Merger Proposal unaffected by CLERP timetable

    Date 08/06/1999

    Australian Stock Exchange Limited's (ASX) proposal to merge with the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) is not in any way subject to the implementation of legislative reform under the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program 6 ("CLERP 6") or any other package of CLERP reforms. Regardless of CLERP 6, the ASX/SFE merger proposal would deliver short and medium term cost savings to market participants resulting from: a single derivatives platform; common clearing and systems processing (from mid 2000); cros

  • Pacific Exchange Names Philip D. DeFeo New CEO - Philip D. DeFeo joined West Coast Mart June 7

    Date 07/06/1999

    The Pacific Exchange (PCX) has named Philip D. DeFeo as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Robert M. Greber will remain Chairman of the PCX Board of Governors. DeFeo is a seasoned executive with broad experience in domestic and international financial markets. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Van Eck Associates Group, a diversified global mutual fund and brokerage company specializing in alternative asset classes. Prior to joining Van Eck, he was Exec

  • OM to Create First Independent Power Exchange in Britain

    Date 07/06/1999

    OM, the exchange operator and supplier of trading technology, today announced that it would create a new spot market (Power Exchange) for the trading of electricity in Britain. The Review of Electricity Trading Arrangements (RETA) programme being run by Offer, the electricity market regulator, has expressed an interest in market operators providing a power exchange for the trading of short-term physical electricity once the Electricity Pool of England and Wales is dissolved. The Pool is expected

  • Euro GLOBEX alliance extended to French and Spanish long-term contracts

    Date 07/06/1999

    The cross-trading agreement concluded on 26 June 1998 by French and Spanish derivatives markets within the framework of the Euro GLOBEX® alliance has now been fully implemented, with all products traded by each member market added on. Starting last week, members of MEFF Renta Fija and Matif will thus have direct on-screen access to trading in Matif's 10-year Euro Notional future and MEFF Renta Fija's 10-year Bono future respectively. The first stage of intermarket linkage started in February, wh

  • Botswana Stock Exchange Market Commentary

    Date 06/06/1999

    The market rose strongly and the index ended up 1.8% gain for the week. Volumes were thinly spread across counters, most activity was in Sechaba, which firmed 5t to P5.20 on over 1.1 million shares. BIHL reclaimed its all-time high of P10.15 on 10,973 shares, a rise of 15t. MRIB was the only other gainer of the week closing 3t higher at P1.63 on rather thin volume of only 200 shares. All other stocks traded at the previous week's closing levels.Total volume for the week was 1,144,363 shares valu

  • Minneapolis Wheat Posts Record Daily Trading Volume

    Date 05/06/1999

    Hard red spring wheat futures, traded at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange since 1883, posted record trading volume on June 3. A total of 11,243 contracts exchanged hands, the equivalent of 56,215,000 bushels of wheat. The previous daily record, established on August 12, 1998, was 10,713 contracts. July spring wheat rallied 12 3/4 cents per bushel over the past 4 trading days, closing up 7 1/4 cent at the close of trade June 3rd at USD3.37 3/4 per bushel. "Funds were active covering short positions

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