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Palestine Securities Exchange: Trading Hours

Date 25/11/2004

The Palestine Securities Exchange will extend its trading hours as of Wednesday, 01/12/2004. The "Continuous Trading" stage will be two hours instead of one hour from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The trading sessions will remain five sessions a week from Sunday to Thursday.
OFR To Boost Business And Inform Shareholders - Trade And Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt Responds To OFR Consultation

Date 25/11/2004

Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced the way forward on the new Operating and Financial Review (OFR) to help strengthen corporate Britain.
KOFEX Weekly Bulletin No. 212 – November 19, 2004

Date 25/11/2004

Please click here to view the KOFEX Weekly Bulletin No. 212 – November 19, 2004.
ICAP Begins Live Electronic Trading Of EONIAS On I-Swap Utilising Computershare’s X-Stream Electronic Trading System

Date 25/11/2004

Computershare Markets Technology today welcomed the announcement that ICAP plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has begun electronic auto-trading of short term interest rate swaps called EONIAS (Euro Overnight Index Average Swaps). EONIAS have been traded on ICAP’s i-Swap system, since the 1st of September. i-Swap is based on Computershare’s X-stream electronic trading system.
Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange Derivatives Market

Date 25/11/2004

For the week of November 15th – November 19th, 2004, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 8 035 million rubles and 888 thousand contracts. Total open interest as of November 19th, 2004, increased by 12% in rubles and 11% in contracts and equaled 12 507 million rubles and 1 415 thousand contracts.

Changes In The TOCOM Rubber Market 2004

Date 25/11/2004

TOCOM will make the following two major changes to its rubber futures contract. 1. Trading method will be changed from the floor-based "Itayose Trading" to the computerized "Systems Trading". (January 4, 2005) 2. Contract unit will be reduced from 10,000 kg to 5,000 kg. (From July 2005 contract which will be generated on Jan. 26, 2005) 1. The following changes will accompany the start of system trading in the rubber market on January 4, 2005 (
Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône Celebrates Successful Listing On Euronext

Date 25/11/2004

Société des Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône was today admitted to the Premier Marché of Euronext Paris.
World Federation Of Exchanges: Exchange CFO Workshop Report

Date 24/11/2004

In September, exchange treasurers met at Deutsche B?e to review current practices and issues in financial management of bourses.
UNICEF Challenges The City To Compete For A Cause

Date 24/11/2004

Digby Jones, Vice President of UNICEF UK and Mark Makepeace, Honorary Fellow of UNICEF and Chief Executive of FTSE Group, are today throwing down the gauntlet to financial institutions and challenging them to take part in an investment race that will separate the wheat from the chaff – The Ethical Investment Race 2004/2005.
UK's HM Treasury Regulation Of Investment Trust Companies

Date 24/11/2004

The Treasury is today launching a consultation on the regulation of investment trust companies. Consultation fulfils a Government undertaking to consider and consult fully on the regulation of investment trust companies following a recommendation by the Treasury Select Committee. In its report into split capital investment trusts the Committee recommended that investment trust companies should be brought within the scope of investment product regulation by the Financial Services Authority