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JSE Equities Market Weekly Statistics For The Week Ended 14 July 2006

Date 18/07/2006

Attached is the weekly report of certain trading statistics. It must be noted that the statistics relevant to foreign transactions only represent transactions executed through the JSE Equities Market.
IntercontinentalExchange Announces Pricing Of Its Secondary Offering

Date 18/07/2006

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) announced the pricing of its secondary offering of 8,000,000 shares of common stock at $56.00 per share. Of these shares, selling shareholders will sell 7,975,000 shares and ICE will sell 25,000 shares. ICE will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling shareholders. The underwriters have an option to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 shares from the selling shareholders at the public offering price, less the underwriting dis
HKEx Sets Date For Reduction Of Minimum Trading Spreads For Securities Priced Between $2 And $20

Date 18/07/2006

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will reduce the minimum trading spreads for securities trading between $2 and $20 on Monday, 24 July this year.
Five New Fixed-Income ETFs Launched In The XTF Segment On Xetra - First ETFs On iBOXX € Liquid Sovereigns Capped Index Family Tradable - Deutsche Börse Is Europe’s Largest ETF Platform

Date 18/07/2006

Deutsche Börse has further expanded its XTF segment for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the pan-European Xetra trading platform. With effect from Tuesday 18 July, five more ETFs issued by Indexchange Investment AG are available for trading in XTF. The new, passively managed fixed-income funds based on European government bonds offer investors a low-cost opportunity to invest in bond indices with varying maturities. There is no front-end load for the new products and the annual management fee is
Dow Jones Indexes, AIG Financial Products Corp. To Launch Commodity Forward Indexes - New Benchmarks Created For Forward Exposure In Response To Continued Expansion Of Asset Class

Date 18/07/2006

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIG-FP), a leader in financial derivatives products and a wholly-owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), today launched three new versions of the Dow Jones – AIG Commodity IndexSM (DJ-AIGCISM): the Dow Jones – AIG Commodity Forward Indexes. The new indexes will allow investors to measure exposure to longer-dated commodity futures contracts. The DJ-AIG Commodity Index

Deutsche Börse Integrates Reference Data From Exchange Data International Into Its Product Range

Date 18/07/2006

Deutsche Börse is expanding the range of market data offered by Back Office Data & Analytics to include master data and corporate actions data for listed companies worldwide. This data covers dividend distribution, capital structure changes, exchange of shares and information relating to the annual general meeting for roughly 80,000 listed instruments from 190 markets in 110 countries. In order to provide this service, Deutsche Börse is integrating the relevant data from Exchange Data Internatio
CESR Publishes Its Report To The Financial Services Committee, Which Updates On Its Efforts To Deliver Supervisory Convergence, And Highlights Any Challenges To Delivering Greater Convergence

Date 18/07/2006

This report was submitted to the FSC, and it provides Finance Ministers and the EU institutions with a yearly update on CESR’s efforts to deliver supervisory convergence. The report also highlights any challenges that have been identified which may hinder progress. To view a copy of the report click here.
CESR Consults On Its Draft Work Programme For MiFID Level 3 Work - Ensuring Convergence Amongst Supervisors

Date 18/07/2006

Following the European Securities Committee and EU Parliament approval of the draft MiFID Level 2 implementing measures, CESR is now shifting its attention to ensuring that day-to-day application of the MIFID, which is due to be transposed by Member States by January 2007 and will apply by November 2007, takes place in a convergent manner amongst supervisors across Europe.
CBOT Top Daily Volume & Open Interest Records For Tuesday, July 18

Date 18/07/2006

A list of some of the Chicago Board of Trade's top daily volume and open interest records from the previous business day. 100 oz. Gold Futures Volume Record New Record: 63,471 Date: July 17, 2006 Old Record: 62,002 Date: May 17, 2006 Soybean Meal Futures Volume Record (Electronic) New Record: 1,528 Date: July 17, 2006 Old Record: 1,522 Date: June 5, 2006
CBOE® Adds optionsXpress'® Virtual Trading Platform To The Internet's Most Visited Options Site - Opportunity To Practice Stock, Options, And Futures Trading Risk-Free

Date 18/07/2006

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OXPS) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange®, Incorporated (CBOE) today announced an agreement to offer optionsXpress' comprehensive virtual trading platform to the approximately one million investors who utilize the Exchange's award-winning website, CBOE.com, each month.