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HKEx Exchange Participants Statistics - On-Floor and Off-Floor Trading Statistics

Date 06/03/2008

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor Main Board + Trading Only Stocks  

Electronic Equity Trading Across London Stock Exchange And Borsa Italiana Up 46 Per Cent

Date 06/03/2008

A total of 21.2 million electronic equity trades were carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana during February 2008, an increase of 46 per cent on February last year. The total value traded was £259.5 billion (€344.4 billion), up 16 per cent on February last year. The average daily number of electronic equity trades increased 39 per cent to 1.0 million, while the average daily value traded grew 10 per cent to £12.4 billion (€16.4 billion).

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - February 2008

Date 06/03/2008

Highlights - Securities Market On 25 February 2008, the securities market turnover was $63.4 billion, the lowest turnover for the year.  However, the average daily turnover for the first two months of 2008 reached $103.0 billion, compared with $54.5 billion in th

Bear Stearns International Ltd New Member On Oslo Børs And Oslo Axess

Date 06/03/2008

Bear Stearns International Ltd will start direct trading in equities, derivatives and fixed income products on Oslo Børs and equities on the regulated market place Oslo Axess from Monday 10 March.

Casablanca Stock Exchange Monthly Report

Date 06/03/2008

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Central Japan Commodity Exchange Change Of Address Notification

Date 06/03/2008

Effective from March 24, 2008, the business of the Central Japan Commodity Exchange will be conducted from the new building located at the below new address; New address : 1-16-2 Marunouchi Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0002 JAPANNew tel # : +81-52-209-7893 (International Affairs Division)New fax# : +81-52-219-5321 (International Affairs Division) Please update your record accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause

Australian Securities And Investments Commission (ASIC) And Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: Market Warned About Stock Lending And Short Selling Obligations

Date 06/03/2008

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have today issued three statements to clarify and reinforce existing obligations in relation to share lending and short selling.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange General Director: Right Timing For The Launch Of Chinese GEM

Date 06/03/2008

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange has been preparing for the launch of the Nasdaq-like growth enterprise market (GEM) for 8 years and it is now the high time for its official debut, said Chen Dongzheng, general director of the Shenzhen bourse and member of the National Committee of the CPPCC, during an exclusive interview with Shanghai Securities News.

Tokyo Grain Exchange: Advisory Notices Regarding Margins Requirements Of Azuki (Red Bean) Futures

Date 06/03/2008

The Exchange will take the following steps against the highly volatile market situation: If the final contract prices of 3 or more Azuki futures contract months reach the upper or lower price limit in the same direction on 3 consecutive business day, in principle, the Exchange will collect an additional amount of extraordinary margin of 40,000 yen for newly established positions on all contract months from the following business day. After the above measures are applied, if

BOX Saves Investors $5.1 Million, Volume Increases 40% Year-Over-Year

Date 05/03/2008

In the month of February, price improvement versus the prevailing NBBO for contracts submitted via the Boston Options Exchange’s (“BOX”) price improvement auction (‘PIP’*) averaged $3.29 per contract. An average of 78,120 contracts per day received price improvement during the month. This represented savings to investors of $5.1 million. With this amount, BOX has reached $177 million in savings to investors since inception.