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Taiwan Index Options Hits Record Open Interest

Date 04/10/2002

Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) today announced that the MSCI Taiwan Index Options contract set a new daily open interest record on 25 September 2002, with 6,059 contracts, compared to the previous record of 5,844 contracts set on 26 June 2002.

Strong growth, year-on-year, was also recorded in the following contracts:-

Trading Volume (No. of Contracts)

Contract

Jan - Sep 02

Jan - Sep 01

Growth

Eurodollar futures

15, 369,123

13,005,555

18.17%

Mini Jap Govt Bond futures

488,286

389,341

25.41%

MSCI S'pore Stock Index futures

503,888

354,834

42.01%

MSCI Taiwan Index options

40,219

30,979

29.83%