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  • CBOT's May Volume At 24,541,588 Contracts, Up 25.4% From April

    Date 03/06/1999

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today trading volume of 24,541,598 contracts for May 1999, up 25.4% from April 1999 and up 11.2% from May 1998. Volume for the first five months of 1999 was 113,461,056. May Highlights Included: CBOT volume reached more than one million contracts per day on 15 of the 20 trading days in May; CBOT average daily volume: 1,227,079 contracts; Project A® monthly total: 892,444, up 4.3% from April 1999 and up 10.2% from May 1998; Project A average daily vo

  • CBOT Implements A Flat-Fee For Price Data To Reflect Customer Needs And Industry Changes

    Date 03/06/1999

    The Chicago Board of Trade, home of the world's benchmark prices on the 30 Year Treasury bond and agricultural commodities, announced today a new flat-fee price structure for its real-time market data to make it more accessible for customers worldwide. The new price structure eliminates the $50 location fee, $10 device fee, and the datafeed surcharge for customers and combines the CBOT and MidAmerica Commodity Exchange (MidAm) data into one flat monthly price of $30 per screen to access the dat

  • Warsaw Stock Exchange Closed on June 3 and June 4

    Date 02/06/1999

    The Warsaw Stock Exchange would like to remind that June 3, 1999 (Thursday) is a holiday in Poland. The Exchange will be closed on that day and also on June 4, 1999 (Friday).

  • SBF Group restructures, specializing to meet international competition even more effectively

    Date 02/06/1999

    The Extraordinary General Meeting of SBF Group shareholders on May 27, 1999 voted to restructure the SBF-Paris Bourse group with effect from June 1. Since January 1, 1998, the SBF Group has brought France's four market operators and three clearing entities under a single roof. The market operators are SBF, Matif S.A., Monep S.A. and La Société du Nouveau Marché, while the clearing bodies are SBF, Matif S.A. and the Banque Centrale de Compensation (BCC), the latter handling OTC transactions.

  • Robust 1998 results for SBF Group

    Date 02/06/1999

    The General Meeting of Shareholders of SBF-Paris Bourse, held May 27, approved financial statements for 998 setting parent-company net income at FF620 million, up from FF300 million in 1997, and consolidated earnings at FF414 m vs. FF224 million the previous year. With trade in equities buoyant, the number of transactions reached a new record of 44.8 million, 21% higher than in 1997, and trade volumes rose 42% to FF3,458 billion. There were a record 129 new listings, raising FF173 billion. Again

  • IPE Tender Offer Oversubscribed

    Date 02/06/1999

    The IPE Board of Directors met this morning to review the results of its tender offer to private investors. Five bids were received for a total of 80% of the Exchange, although the IPE Board had already indicated that it will only recommend to its Members the sale of a maximum 70% stake. The bids value the Exchange at £35.7 million. Bids were received from BG Plc, Distrigas, Enron, Nord Pool and OM Gruppen. The IPE's Board has agreed to enter into further talks with the bidders in order to clari

  • CME May Trading Volume Rises 17 Percent - E-Mini S&P 500 Soars Nearly 190 Percent As Index Products Set May Record

    Date 02/06/1999

    Trading volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in May rose nearly 17 percent above year-ago levels to 17,867,782. Volume in equity index products set a May record of 3,557,274, surpassing May 1998 volume by 14 percent. The all-time volume record for E-mini S&P 500 futures was set at 843,020. E-mini S&P 500 futures volume rose nearly 190 percent in May, with year-to-date volume up nearly 173 percent. E-mini S&P 500 options set a new May record of 5,914, as year-to- date volume grew by 33

  • The Toronto Stock Exchange And The Montreal Exchange Partner To Teach Investors About Their Options

    Date 01/06/1999

    Institutional investors from across Canada will gather in Hockley Valley, just north of Toronto, on June 8th and 9th for the second annual TSE Derivatives Conference. The Derivatives Conference, the largest of its kind in Canada, is being hosted by the TSE with the Montreal Exchange participating as a primary sponsor. This partnership between the two exchanges demonstrates a commitment to foster the development and growth of derivative markets in Canada.

  • Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Named A Designated Offshore Securities Market By SEC

    Date 01/06/1999

    The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named the TASE as a "designated offshore securities market". The SEC has accorded the TASE this recognition after review of the TASE's oversight, reporting, clearance and settlement systems. With this designation, the TASE joins leading non-U.S. securities markets which have already been so designated, such as the London Stock Exchange, the Bourse de Paris, the Tokyo Stock Exchange and ot

  • KCBT wheat options volume sets new May record

    Date 01/06/1999

    Kansas City Board of Trade wheat options volume traded during the month of May amounted to 11,647 contracts, breaking the previous May record of 10,596 contracts set in 1997. Wheat options volume grew 21.5 percent when compared to May of 1998. Wheat options open interest also posted increases this month. Open interest grew 31.5 percent when compared to May 1998 and 18.5 percent when compared to April of this year. Wheat futures open interest increased 22.1 percent over last year at this time and

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