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PHLX To Begin Trading Ten New Options

Date 02/08/2000

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) is pleased to announce that it will begin trading put and call options on The Charles Schwab Corporation (option/stock symbol: SCH), Citrix Systems, Inc. (XSQ/CTXS), CMGI Inc. (option/stock symbol: QGC/CMGI), Globalstar Telecommunications Limited (options/stock symbol: YVQ/GSTRF), Novellus Systems, Inc. (option/stock symbol: NLQ/NVLS), Seagate Technology, Inc. (option/stock symbol: SEG), Solectron Corporation (option/stock symbol: SLR), Tellabs Inc. (option/stock symbol: TEQ/TLAB), VERITAS Software Corporation (option/stock symbol: VUQ/VRTS), Xerox Corporation (option/stock symbol: XRX), upon the opening of business on Monday, August 7, 2000.

The PHLX is the first securities exchange in the U.S. and the nation's fastest growing sectors index options exchange. Founded in 1790, PHLX is a market leader in the trading of over 2,300 stocks, 770 equity options, eleven sectors index options, and 100 currency pairs.