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New York Mercantile Exchange To Change Margins For Silver And Copper Futures Contracts

Date 18/04/2006

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. today announced margin changes for its silver and copper futures contracts, beginning at the close of business on Wednesday.
New York Mercantile Exchange Sets Daily Volume Record In NYMEX miNY(tm) Natural Gas Futures Contracts

Date 18/04/2006

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. announced that its NYMEX miNYTM natural gas futures contracts set a daily volume record of 20,523 on April 13, exceeding the of 20,314 contracts traded on February 1.
New Daily Volume Record At NYBOT

Date 18/04/2006

Thursday, April 13, 2006, went into the record books as the highest trading volume day in the 136-year history of the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®). The world’s leading “soft” commodity exchange had 315,390 combined futures and options contracts change hands during the day, overtaking the previous daily volume record of 315,256 contracts, established on January 27, 2006.
Nasdaq Begins Roll-Out For Options Routing Business

Date 18/04/2006

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ®: NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that it has begun to offer options routing. Customers will be offered connectivity and routing to the major options exchanges through its BRUT broker-dealer. These exchanges include: American Stock Exchange (AMEX), Boston Stock Exchange (BOX), International Securities Exchange (ISE), Pacific Stock Exchange, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), and The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). NASDAQ will not match option orde
NASD Hearing Panel Suspends, Fines Former GunnAllen Broker For Threatening Public Company - Broker Intimidated Company By Threatening To Drive Down Stock Price

Date 18/04/2006

An NASD hearing panel has suspended former stockbroker Shawn Aaron for two years and fined him $50,000 for threatening and intimidating Optelecom-NKF, Inc. (OPTC), a Nasdaq SmallCap company, while he was registered with GunnAllen Financial, Inc., of Tampa, FL. NASD had charged that Aaron engaged in a scheme to defraud and extort OPTC by threatening to drive down the price of its stock from $13 to $6 per share unless it provided him with confidential business information.

KCBT Wheat Futures Margin Change - Margins Increased Due To Increased Volatility

Date 18/04/2006

The Kansas City Board of Trade has raised its minimum margins for wheat futures contracts. The changes, effective today, come as a result of increased market volatility and are as follows: Hard Red Winter Wheat Initial Maintenance
International Securities Exchange Announces Conference Call

Date 18/04/2006

The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) announced today that it will host a conference call tomorrow, Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. ISE Management will discuss in more detail a press release to be distributed prior to the call concerning a new product line introduction. All interested parties can listen to a live audio webcast that will be hosted on the Investor Relations section of the Company's web site at www.iseoptions.com. An investor presentation that will
IEX Market Has Successful First Year Of Operation - 78% Of Trading Taking Place In Dublin For New Companies With IEX/AIM Dual Listings - 118% Increase In Market Capitalisation Of IEX Since Launch One Year Ago - Six New Companies Join IEX In First Year Of

Date 18/04/2006

On average, 78% of trading in the shares of new companies that joined both IEX and AIM in the past 12 months takes place in Dublin. The capitalisation of the IEX market has more than doubled to €1.17 billion since the market was launched one year ago.
FTSE Xinhua Index Announces Review Results - Changes To Tradable A50, 200 And B35 Indexes - No Changes To FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index

Date 18/04/2006

FTSE Xinhua Index (FXI), the independent China index provider, held its quarterly Index Committee meeting on Tuesday April 11, 2006 to review and approve constituent changes to the FTSE Xinhua Index Series. All these changes will be applied to the index, effective after the close of business on Friday, 21 April 2006 (i.e. on Monday, 24 April 2006).
Euronext.liffe Bclear Service Accelerates Through 10 Million Contracts

Date 18/04/2006

On Tuesday 11 April, trading of equity derivatives futures and options contracts through Euronext.liffe’s Bclear wholesale service exceeded ten million contracts. Since the launch of Bclear on 24 October 2005, a total of 11.8 million contracts have been registered.