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NYBOT Launches Revised NYSE Composite Index® Contracts

Date 07/03/2003

The New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) subsidiary of the New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) has launched trading in futures contracts based on the newly revised New York Stock Exchange Composite Index®. The NYSE's flagship index represents the aggregate performance of the world's best companies that meet NYSE standards, and the revisions are designed to make the Index a better measure of the performance of NYSE-listed issues.
London Stock Exchange: Monthly Market Report For February 2003 - Number Of UK Trades Continue To Rise In February

Date 07/03/2003

The total number of UK and international trades on the London Stock Exchange in February 2003 was 4.21 million, up six per cent from 3.96 million in February 2002. This was despite a year on year decline in the number of international trades.
Financial Supervision Commission: Increase In Non-Resident Company Duty

Date 07/03/2003

With effect from 1st April 2003, the rate of Non-Resident Company Duty ("NRCD") is being increased to £1000.
Exchange To Begin Offering Coal Futures Contract On NYMEX ClearPort<SUP>sm</SUP> Trading Platform

Date 07/03/2003

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today that it will move its NYMEX Division coal futures contract from open outcry trading to its NYMEX ClearPortsm electronic trading platform starting the afternoon of April 3 for the April 4 trading session.
Eurex Expands French Equity Options Segment - 27 New Equity Options Tradable At Eurex As Of March10 - Trading With Two Expiration Cycles

Date 07/03/2003

On March 10, as previously announced, Eurex, the international derivatives market, is launching 27 new options as well as the related LEPOs (low price equity options) on French equities, thus further expanding its worldwide leading position in the trading of equity option contracts. The world's Number One equity options exchange will offer nearly all of the equities in the CAC 40 French benchmark index as options on the Eurex platform. Eurex is the only exchange to make French equity options ava

Changes To Nominees For OM's Board Of Directors

Date 07/03/2003

OM Board member Nils-Fredrik Nyblæus has declined to be put forward for re-election at the Annual General Meeting on March 19. As a result, the Nominating Committee will propose seven Board members instead of eight as announced in the notice to attend the Annual General Meeting.
CFTC Provides Annual Report Guidance To Commodity Pool Operators

Date 07/03/2003

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight (DCIO) today issued its annual guidance letter to registered commodity pool operators (CPOs). The letter is intended to assist CPOs, and their public accountants, in complying with the Commission's regulations on the preparation and filing of annual financial reports. In the letter DCIO shares the results of its experience r
Borsa Italiana Monthly Key Figures - February 2003

Date 07/03/2003

Turnover for February was EUR 51,486.6 million. This compares to EUR 54,061.5 million in January. Domestic turnover in February was EUR 45,849.2 million, foreign turnover 5,088.0 million, Nuovo Mercato, Domestic, EUR 526.2 million, Nuovo Mercato, Foreign, EUR 3.4 million and on the Ristretto market EUR 19.9 million.
ADP To Offer Single Stock Futures Processing

Date 07/03/2003

ADP Brokerage Services Group (ADP), a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NYSE: ADP), announced that it can now provide clients with the ability to process single stock futures in a securities brokerage account.
Stock Exchange Of Thailand: Listed Companies Show Profit In 2002 Of Almost THB200 Billion

Date 06/03/2003

Seventy-nine percent of listed companies that submitted their 2002 financial statements posted profits of almost B200 billion. The industrial and service sectors, which make up the bulk of the market, posted an increase in profit of more than 50%. The securities sector continued to benefit from the minimum commission fee and saw profits of more than B1.6 billion.