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CBOT Corn Futures Contract Sets Volume Record - Friday’s Daily Volume Bests Previous Record By More Than 17,000 Contracts

Date 03/04/2006

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today that its Corn futures contracts achieved a new record on Friday, March 31. The Exchange’s Corn futures trading volume was 331,455 contracts, eclipsing the previous record of 314,154 set on February 25, 2005.
CBOT Achieves Best Quarterly Volume Ever, Setting Records For Average Daily Volume And Total Volume; March Volume Sets Monthly Record – More Than 70 Million Contracts Traded - Exchange Reaches Quarterly Electronic Average Daily Volume Record

Date 03/04/2006

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®), one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that volume during the first quarter of 2006 averaged a record 3,107,525 contracts per day, up 10 percent from the same period last year. Total volume across the Exchange reached a record of 192,666,573 contracts for the quarter. Average daily volume (ADV) on the Exchange’s e-cbot electronic trading platform also climbed to a record 2,132,195 contracts, a 20 percent increase over the first quart
CBOE And CFE Will Be Closed On Friday, April 14

Date 03/04/2006

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) today announced the following trading schedule in observance of Good Friday:
AIM Admissions Pause For Breath But Fundraising Levels More Than Treble - Says Grant Thornton Corporate Finance

Date 03/04/2006

Despite a small slowdown in the number companies seeking admission to AIM during the first three months of 2006*, the market has delivered significantly higher levels of funds raised at admission compared to the corresponding period last year, according to new research by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance.
March 2006 Statistics From OMX, The Nordic Exchange

Date 03/04/2006

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Wiener Börse To Take Part In Meeting Of EU25 Ministers Of Finance On 7 April In Vienna

Date 31/03/2006

The member of the Management Board, Dr. Michael Buhl, will have an opportunity to give a presentation to the 25 Ministers of Finance of the European Union explaining the significance of a well-functioning regional capital market for GDP growth and the creation of jobs based on the example of Wiener Börse at the informal summit of the EU Ministers of Finance (ECOFIN) on 7 April in Vienna.
Warsaw SE Main Indices Set New Closing High

Date 31/03/2006

The Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG, all share index, closed at a new high of 40 220,32 points. The previous closing high was 40 115,91 on March 30, 2006.
TSX Group CEO Visit To Washington “Breakfast At The National Press Club” (April 4, 2006)

Date 31/03/2006

TSX Group CEO Richard Nesbitt will give a breakfast speech to the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, April 4, 2006. His topic is “The case for free trade in U.S. and Canadian securities: The future is now.”<
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

Date 31/03/2006

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, March 31, 2006: Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc. (TSXVN:OYM) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to the TSX to trade under the same ticker symbol at the opening of trading on Monday, April 3, 2006.
SEC: Report Issued On Improving Financial Privacy Notices For Consumers

Date 31/03/2006

Federal regulators today released Evolution of a Prototype Financial Privacy Notice, a report by Kleimann Communication Group summarizing consumer research commissioned by the regulators as part of their ongoing efforts to develop improved financial privacy notices.