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  • NYMEX Sets Monthly Copper Volume Record in June

    Date 01/07/1999

    A monthly volume record for COMEX Division copper futures was established in June with 319,157 contracts traded by month's end, surpassing the previous monthly volume record of 296,162 contracts traded in April of this year.

  • NYMEX Offers to Purchase Majority Shares of IPE

    Date 01/07/1999

    The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) this morning sent a letter to the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), offering to purchase between 55 and 70% of the IPE under the same for-profit holding company structure offered to it in a proposal presented by outside investors.

  • Iceland Stock Exchange receives new operating licence

    Date 01/07/1999

    Effective today, July 1st, the Iceland Stock Exchange has been issued an operating licence as a stock exchange and a regulated securities market by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in accordance with the Act on Stock Exchanges and Regulated Securities Markets no. 34/1998. This is the first exchange licence to be issued under this law and in effect confirms that the Iceland Stock Exchange fulfills all the requirements of Icelandic law and the relevant E.U. directives.

  • Eurex Sets New Worldwide Record in Trading Volume in June

    Date 01/07/1999

    June was a record month for the Eurex derivatives market in several respects. With volume of 38.4 million contracts traded, Eurex beat its previous record of 33.8 million contracts traded in March, thus setting another new worldwide benchmark. The June contract volume is about 88 percent higher than the number traded in the same month of last year. A total of more than 177 million contracts were traded during the first six months of 1999, more than one and a half times the number traded in all o

  • DEBS to start trading on 1st July

    Date 01/07/1999

    In response to the growing demand for pan-European trading, MEFF Renta Fija will launch a new futures contract known as DEBS, a contract designed for then Eurozone, referenced against benchmark issues of the four core economies in the euro zone, which together account for more than 80% of the GDP in the EMU. The basket will consist of 30% German debt, 30% French debt, 20% Italian debt and 20% Spanish, respecting the risk symmetry between France and Germany on the one hand and Italy and Spain on