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EEX: Trading Fees Waived For The Spot Market - Small And Medium-Size Companies Will Gain Access To Attractive Platform For Electricity Trading - More Than 30 Companies Prepare For The EEX Spot Market

Date 05/07/2000

EEX, the European Energy Exchange, is waiving a large part of the fees for trading on the spot market for the year 2000, as the company announced at the general meeting on Wednesday. The fee waiver includes the annual fee for the spot market, the transaction fees for trading as well as the costs for the basic technical equipment and the connection to the Xetra trading system. The one-time admission fee at EEX is not affected by the fee waiver.
CME Equity Index Products Set New All-Time Monthly Volume Record As Overall Volume Rises 15 Percent In First Half of 2000 - GLOBEX®2 Volume Increases 115 Percent Year-To-Date

Date 05/07/2000

Volume of trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the first half of 2000 rose 15 percent above 1999 levels to more than 120 million contracts. June volume of 20.5 million contracts set a new record for any June in CME history, while equity index products set a new all-time volume record of 5.6 million.
Change To The Dow Jones STOXX SM Index Methodology - New Free Float Market Capitalisation Weighting (Effective September 18, 2000)

Date 05/07/2000

The STOXX Limited Supervisory Board - in consultation with its Advisory Committee - announces that free float market capitalisation weighting will be implemented in all the Dow Jones STOXX SM Indexes - i.e. including all blue chip, size, sector and broad indexes - effective September 18, 2000:
Osaka Mercantile Exchange RSS3 Futures And Rubber Index Futures Weekly Report

Date 04/07/2000

On June 19, OME RSS3 futures opened mixed with players staying on the sidelines in the absence of fresh incentives. The current contract month rose by 0.3 yen to 67.00 yen where as the distant contract month fell by 0.6 yen to 77.40 yen from the previous close. On June 21, the distant contract rose to 79.20 yen on short-covering as the number of applications for the quality inspection this month was only 247 lots. Furthermore, the expectation that trading houses would take the physical delive
Osaka Mercantile Exchange Aluminium Futures Weekly Report

Date 04/07/2000

On June 19, OME Aluminium futures opened the week substantially higher with distant May contract at 169.5 yen, up 2.1 yen from last Friday's close on bull's buying due to the continued talk of a major U.S. aluminium producer curbing its aluminium output. Furthermore, the fact that the aluminium stocks at designated LME warehouses decreased by about 300,000 tonnes as of June 19 from the peak in February this year added to the strong sentiment.

London Metal Exchange June Volume

Date 04/07/2000

The London Metal Exchange traded a total of 5,545,099 lots in June. This figure was made up of 5,085,980 lots of futures, 433,631 lots of options and 25,488 lots of TAPOs.
LIFFE Trades £31 Trillion Worth Of Contracts In First Half 2000

Date 04/07/2000

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) traded an average daily nominal value of £279 billion (€421 billion) in June 2000 and totalled £31 trillion for the first half of 2000, maintaining its position as the world's largest electronic exchange by value traded.
Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange: CLOB Securities Will Not Disrupt Market

Date 04/07/2000

Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) is ensuring the release of securities formerly held under Central Limit Order Book International (CLOB) will not disrupt the stockmarket.
Island ECN Joins U.S. Lawmakers For First Decimal Trades

Date 04/07/2000

The bipartisan leadership of the U.S. House Commerce Committee appeared on the afternoon of June 28 with Island ECN President Matthew Andresen to execute on Island the Nation's first decimal-based stock trades.
Cyprus Stock Exchange May Statistics

Date 04/07/2000

During May there was a slight decrease in the General Price Index and also in the value of shares traded compared to April.