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Date 31/03/1999
CBOT Board approves half ticks for 10-Year Note contracts
Following through on its ongoing commitment to respond to customers and provide the world's most effective risk management markets, the CBOT Board of Directors has voted to provide half-tick trading in the 10-Year Note futures contract. The change will be effective June 27, 1999. At that time, 10-Year Note tick sizes on all contract months including the front month will be 1/2 of 1/32 of one point, or USD15.625 per contract. Currently, 10-Year note futures contracts are traded in increments of
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Date 30/03/1999
HKEx Welcomes Eight Government Appointed Directors To Its Inaugural Board
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) welcomes the Government's appointment of the eight Directors representing public and market interests to the Board. They will join the six directors elected by shareholders, and Mr Kwong Ki-chi, HKExs' Chief Executive as an ex-officio member, to form the inaugural board. The appointment of the directors appointed by the Government and those elected at the HKEx EGM held on 27 March will take effect on April 3, 2000. The inaugural board will hold
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Date 27/03/1999
PHLX to Launch New Trading System on its Equity Floor
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) has announced that it has received Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to operate the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) Trading System VTS, on its equity trading floor. VTS is a pre-opening order matching system for the execution of large-sized stock orders at the VWAP. Following a morning order-entry period, VTS executions will occur at approximately 09:20 with the VWAP calculated and assigned at approximately 16:20 each day. VTS will be a
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Date 27/03/1999
LIFFE introduces Wholesale Block Trading Facility
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange on Friday March 26 announced that, in response to demand from major market participants, a Block Trade Facility will be introduced, with effect from 19 April 1999. The new facility will allow LIFFE members and their wholesale clients to transact business of significant size without delay and with certainty of price and execution. The facility will complement LIFFE's existing trading platforms, both open outcry and electronic.
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Date 27/03/1999
Amsterdam Exchanges February Turnover
Turnover on Amsterdam Exchanges in February was EUR105,851. This compares to EUR103,935 in February 1998, an increase of 1.8%. Turnover in the first two months of 1999 was EUR229,919. This compares with EUR208,470 in the same period of 1998. On the options market turnover (in premium) was EUR3,509.
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Date 26/03/1999
Stock Exchange of Singapore Dealer's Representatives to Trade Directly on SIMEX System
The Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) and Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) are pleased to announce that from April 5, 1999, dealer's representatives of SES member firms (DRs) who are registered representatives of SIMEX, will have direct access to SIMEX's Automated Trading System (ATS). This is an enhancement of the system launched last September which allowed DRs to trade in the SIMEX MSCI Singapore Stock Index (SiMSCI) futures contract via member firms' central buyers using SIM
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Date 26/03/1999
Change in Trading Hours for Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG20 and USD Futures Contracts
Starting from April 12, continuous trading in the WIG20 futures and USD futures on the Warsaw Stock Exchange derivatives market will be from 11:45 to 13:00. This change will make it possible to trade futures contracts from the time the WIG20 index value in the single-price auction has been determined for a given day.
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Date 25/03/1999
Toronto Stock Exchange encourages use of electronic communications for disclosure
The Toronto Stock Exchange today released guidelines for the use of electronic communications by listed companies. The guidelines support existing TSE disclosure rules and policies. The proposed guidelines were issued for comment in August 1998, which was followed by a public consultation period generating more than 20 submissions. The public comments resulted in no changes to the substance of the guidelines.
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Date 25/03/1999
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Trading Goes On-Line
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange announced that it commenced on-line trading in stocks. After receiving the Exchange's approval last month, the first two non-bank member firms are enabling their customers to send buy and sell orders via the Internet.
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Date 25/03/1999
SEBI orders Bombay Stock Exchange President to Resign
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has directed Jasvantlal C Parekh to relinquish the office of president of the Bombay Stock Exchange. The order was passed by SEBI chairman D R Mehta on March 23. The directive states that Parekh has also been made ineligible to hold any public position in future as a member of the governing board or as an office-bearer of the exchange as well as any capital market-related public institution for three years.
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