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  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading Five New Quarterly Option Listings On Wednesday, February 21

    Date 20/02/2007

    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin to list and trade option series that expire at the close of business on the last business day of a calendar quarter (“Quarterly Options Series”) on a pilot basis, beginning February 21, 2007. The following two options were allocated to Citadel Derivatives Trading Group LLC:

  • FCStone To Serve As Market Maker For CBOT Ethanol Contract

    Date 20/02/2007

    The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that FCStone has become an electronic market maker for the CBOT’s Ethanol futures contract. FCStone will provide liquidity and continuous two-sided markets for the Ethanol futures trading on the CBOT’s electronic trading platform.

  • Higher Liquidity Standards Introduced To FTSE Indexes

    Date 20/02/2007

    Leading index provider FTSE Group (“FTSE”), will apply new enhanced liquidity measures at the next FTSE Asia Pacific ex Japan index review on 27th March 2007. The new rule will raise the liquidity hurdle for inclusion in FTSE indices, giving investors more accurate representation of investability by using median daily, rather than average monthly, trading volume as a screen.

  • CBOT Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Friday, February 16

    Date 20/02/2007

    Daily: Soybean Oil - Futures and Options Electronic Volume Record New Record: 34,136 Feb 16, 2007 Old Record: 28,522 Feb 15, 2007 Daily: Soybean Oil - Futures Electronic Volume Record New Record: 34,136 Feb 16, 2007 Old Record: 28,522 Feb 15, 2007 Daily: Exchange - Futures and Options Open Interest Record New Record: 17,793,529 Feb 16, 2007 Old Record: 17,743,245 Feb 15, 2007 Daily: Agricultural - Futures and Options Open

  • Cass Business School Launches World's First Executive MBA Offering A Specialism In Islamic Finance In Association With DIFC

    Date 20/02/2007

    Cass Business School part of The City University, London, one of the world’s leading business schools, today announced the launch of its Executive MBA (EMBA) programme offering three alternative specializations: Islamic Finance, Energy and General Management and Finance.