The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker and trading-collar trigger levels for fourth-quarter 2006 effective Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 .
The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Sept. 18-22
As of mid-September, short interest in 2,730 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,209,431,128 shares compared with 7,112,973,390 shares in 2,718 Global Market issues for the month of August.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that it plans to expand the availability of its options on Full-sized Gold (100 oz.) and Silver (5,000 oz.) futures by listing the contracts on its open auction trading floor, side-by-side with the e-cbot® electronic trading platform, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2006. Currently, the contracts trade exclusively on e-cbot, the Exchange’s electronic trading platform.
2006 has already become a record year for money raising through IPOs on the London Stock Exchange. So far this year, IPOs on the Exchange's markets have raised £17.8 billion, exceeding the £17.4 billion raised by IPOs during the whole of 2000.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) announced plans to introduce an equity and index options market in the third quarter of 2007, pending approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). NASDAQ will develop the NASDAQ Options Market to leverage its core strengths of high performance technology and connectivity.
OMX (STO:OMX) and Eignarhaldsfelagid Verdbrefathing hf (EV), the owner of Iceland Stock Exchange (ICEX) and Icelandic Securities Depository (ISD) have signed a Letter of Intent regarding an acquisition of EV. The transaction is the next step in realizing the vision of an integrated Nordic and Baltic securities market and establishing the OMX Nordic Exchange as a leading European marketplace.
Very strong trading during August has underlined the London Stock Exchange's position as the world's fastest growing major equity exchange this year, with 50 per cent growth in the number of trades on SETS during the first eight months of 2006 compared with the same period last year.
