Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and CBOT Holdings, Inc. today announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two organizations to create the most extensive and diverse global derivatives exchange.
The Chicago Board of Trade today announced that its Agricultural complex set a volume record yesterday for the second time this month. The new record, 976,685 contracts, surpassed the previous high mark of 929,546 contracts set on October 5, 2006.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., today reported third quarter 2006 net income of $30.2 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, an increase of 69.7% from $17.8 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2005, and 81.9% from $16.6 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2006.
The London Stock Exchange today launched Exchange Insight and Company Profile, new online services that will provide private investors with the information and tools they need to help them to build successful investment portfolios.
During September 2006 the average daily number of trades on SETS increased 52 per cent on September 2005 to 313,188 trades. This is nearly double the 27 per cent growth between September 2004 and September 2005. The acceleration in trading continues to reflect the secular shift in equity trading which is being facilitated by the roll-out of TRM, the Exchange's next generation technology platform.
NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today announced that WisdomTree Investments listed 10 new International Sector exchange traded funds on the NYSE. As the first ETFs to offer pure international sector exposure in a fundamentally-weighted dividend index, the WisdomTree sector ETFs focus on specific industry sectors and consist of only international equity securities.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ®: NDAQ) today announced its consolidated market performance statistics for the NASDAQ Market Center, INET and Brut trading platforms for the month of September.
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 Oct. 2-6.
The Chicago Board of Trade today announced its Agricultural complex set an all-time volume record yesterday. The new record of 929,546 contracts surpassed the previous high of 869,005 contracts set on February 22, 2005.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that its Full-sized (100 oz.) Gold futures contract surpassed a market share milestone of 60 percent on October 2, capturing 64 percent of all listed Gold futures traded in North America that day.
