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CFTC Staff Allows Futures Contract Based On The Taiwan Stock Exchange Non-Finance Non-Electronic Sub-Index To Be Offered and Sold In The United States

Date 02/04/2008

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC's) Office of General Counsel today announced that it issued a no-action letter permitting the offer and sale in the United States of the Taiwan Futures Exchange’s (TAIFEX) futures contract based on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Non-Finance Non-Electronic Sub-Index (XIF).

The XIF is a broad-based, market-capitalization-weighted security index composed of stocks that are listed for trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TSEC) and that are not financial- or electronics-related stocks. Maintained by the TSEC, the XIF had stocks of 325 TSEC-listed companies as of October 31, 2007. Based on data supplied by TAIFEX, the total adjusted market capitalization of the XIF was approximately U.S. $234.2 billion.

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