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TAIFEX Sets Daily Trading Volume Records On TEO, TFO And MSO

Date 13/10/2006

The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) today announced that the daily trading volume of Taiwan Stock Exchange Electronic Sector Index Options (TEO) and Taiwan Stock Exchange Finance Sector Index Options (TFO) hit all time highs with 21,865 contracts and 23,871 contracts traded respectively. The new records of TEO and TFO were 38.16% and 43.22% greater than the previous records.

TAIFEX’s TEO and TFO are among the most actively traded sector index options in the world. These two index options reflect the performance of two most important sectors in the Taiwan economy and are widely used by investors to construct their portfolios.

The newly launched TAIFEX MSCI Taiwan IndexSM Options (MSO) has also seen improvement on daily trading volume with 29,612 contracts traded.

For more information on the TAIFEX stock index options products, please visit http://www.taifex.com.tw/eng/eng_home.htm

 

 

 

 

Unit: Contract

Contracts

New Record

Previous Record

Growth

Volume

Volume

Date

TEO

21,865

15,826

2006/9/5

38.16%

TFO

23,871

16,667

2006/6/15

43.22%

MSO

29,612

24,000

2006/9/1

23.38%