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The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Is Set To Begin Trading Four New Options On Friday, December 29

Date 28/12/2006

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that begin to trade four new options beginning Friday, December 29. The following two options were allocated to Market Street Securities:
  • Scottish Re Group Ltd. (option/stock symbol: SCT) will trade on the January expiration cycle with initial expiration months of January, February, April and July. Position and exercise limits have been set at 250,000 contracts.
  • Globalstar, Inc. (option/stock symbol: QDS/GSAT) will trade on the March expiration cycle with initial expiration months of January, February, March and June. Position and exercise limits have been set at 25,000 contracts.
The final two options were allocated to LaBranche Structured Products, LLC:
  • Entrust, Inc. (option/stock symbol: DUU/ENTU) will trade on the January expiration cycle with initial expiration months of January, February, April and July. Position and exercise limits have been set at 250,000 contracts.
  • Donaldson Company, Inc. (option/stock symbol: DCI) will trade on the February expiration cycle with initial expiration months of January, February, May and August. Position and exercise limits have been set at 50,000 contracts.

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange was founded in 1790. The PHLX trades over 7,000 stocks, 2,327 equity options, 17 sectors index options and currency options and futures. For more information about the PHLX and its products, visit www.phlx.com.