August 1, 2005

 

Lead Stories

 

NYSE's bell tolls for its trading floor

Electronic deals to replace humans; firms already cutting

By Aaron Elstein

The New York Stock Exchange trading floor, for decades the symbol of capitalism and of Manhattan's financial power, faces extinction within a year's time.  Once the 213-year-old institution finally bows to market pressures and allows unrestricted trading via computers this fall, its biggest customers will likely execute most of their transactions without human intervention. As a result, the roughly 3,000 floor traders and clerks who now handle about 90% of the NYSE's business will be out of a job.

http://newyorkbusiness.com/article.cms?articleId=23422

 

Big Board's Bond Trading Ramp-UP May Flop

The New York Stock Exchange is on the verge of getting approval to trade corporate bonds of non-exchange listed companies--an exemption that will herald the Big Board's relaunch of its automated bond trading system this year.

http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/default.asp?page=1&SID=551589&ISS=18622&type=23

 

NYSE chief: Hybrid trading system's the way to go

Having weathered a tumultuous period that ended with a shake-up of top management, the New York Stock Exchange is forging ahead, but not without a fair degree of controversy. While business is good for the world's biggest stock exchange, there is some concern among its constituents about its plans to merge its floor-based trading system with a relatively new electronic market known as Archipelago.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-07-31-insana-nyse-usat_x.htm

 

JUDGE RIPS THAIN

July 29, 2005 -- New York Stock Exchange Chief Executive John Thain has some serious conflicts of interest in the eyes of a New York State Supreme Court judge.

http://www.nypost.com/business/50543.htm

 

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Loophole allows currency schemes to flourish

Tighter rules urged to tame `Wild West'

By Greg Burns, Tribune senior correspondent. Tribune staff reporter Ray Gibson contributed to this story

When federal agents armed with search warrants descended on the South Barrington home of Puthankote Aboobacker, they discovered just how profitable the new wave of currency-trading schemes could be.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0507310021jul31%2C1%2C3213252.story?coll=chi-business-hed

 

World Sugar Futures Contract Sets New Open Interest High At NYBOT

http://www.nybot.com/releases/pressRelease.asp?releaseID=901

 

Refco Group Ltd., LLC Launches Refco Private Client Group

Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, Formerly Lind-Waldock, Offers Premier Futures Trading Services to Individual Investors

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Refco Group Ltd., LLC (REFCO), a leading provider of execution and clearing services for exchange-traded derivatives and one of the world's largest independent derivative brokers, announced today that is has officially launched Refco Private Client Group (www.refcoprivateclient.com). The Refco Private Client Group, formerly known as Lind-Waldock, provides quality futures trading services to individual investors. The management team of Lind-Waldock will continue in their current roles at the Refco Private Client Group.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050801/nym013.html?.v=16

 

**** When I went to work in the brokerage business for First American Discount back in 1985, the big players in the burgeoning discount futures brokerage field were Lind-Waldock, First American and Jack Carl.  They have all been absorbed by larger firms and now all the names have disappeared, as well as many, many other luminary brokerage firm names.  Such is the fate of brokerage firms.  Goodbye Lind-Waldock.

 

Nymex ponders future as suitors line up

The New York Mercantile Exchange's board meeting on Wednesday will be anything but regular this month as the 24 members discuss the 133-year-old institution's future ownership and strategic direction.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1a970f48-0200-11da-9481-00000e2511c8.html

 

Nymex Europe Floors It

Waters takes an inside look at the new Nymex Europe trading floor in the City.

http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=287680

 

NYBOT - Tornado

A tornado struck the Port of Antwerp in Belgium Friday evening, July 29, damaging the 3 Ways Complex. Two NYBOT-licensed warehouses were affected by the tornado: Molenbergnatie 3 Way 6-7 and Wilmarsdonk 3 Way 9.  NYBOT has appointed a surveyor to assess the damages to the buildings and cargo areas.  Cargo owners are now being notified of the situation by the warehouse owners.

Please check the NYBOT website for further updates on this situation.

http://www.nybot.com/

 

July 2005 - Euronext key indicators

Over 14 million cash transactions completed in July, up 40.5% year-on-year

12 IPOs on Euronext’s markets

Euronext.liffe volumes up 22% year-on-year, 7% year-to-date

Record trading in Euronext.liffe STIR products in July

http://www.euronext.com/news/press_releases/0,4159,1732_8275,00.html

 

Montreal Exchange's 6-month profits rise to $8.1M from $5.6M

MONTREAL (CP) - The Montreal Exchange reported a solid jump in profits for its latest six-month period on rising revenues from a sharp growth in derivatives trading.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20050729/ca_pr_on_bu/montreal_exchange_1

 

CME Reports Average Daily Volume of 3.7 Million Contracts in July

CHICAGO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange, today said average daily volume for July was 3.7 million contracts, up 15 percent from the same period a year ago. Total monthly volume was more than 73 million contracts.

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=6939

 

CME says July volumes rose 15% 

(Reuters)—Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest U.S. futures exchange, said on Monday that trading volume for July averaged 3.7 million contracts per day, up 15 percent from a year earlier. CME said total monthly volume was more than 73 million contracts. Average daily volume...  

http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=17312

 

Sale of London Stock Exchange would lessen competition substantially

Merger with Deutsche Börse AG or Euronext NV would make if difficult for other exchanges to compete

http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?Id=29844&IdSection=15&cat=15

 

Competition in stock exchange mergers: Bids for LSE must be conditional on divestment of clearing

Britain's competition regulator is consulting on the conditions it should impose for giving the go-ahead to bids for the London Stock Exchange by either Deutsche Börse or Euronext. These are necessary, it says, because the acquisition of the LSE by either of its rivals would otherwise lead to a substantial lessening of competition. The issues it has investigated, however, cannot be left solely to national regulators to deal with

The Competition Commission consultation follows its investigation of two bids for the LSE that do not exist - the German exchange withdrew its offer in May. But there remains pressure for consolidation between Europe's exchanges, in the interests of creating a more liquid pan-European market with lower costs. The terms under which mergers are allowed will be crucial in unlocking those benefits.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/767e6630-0228-11da-9481-00000e2511c8.html

 

Competition panel to clear LSE bid

But crucial divestitures of clearing and settlement units of both Euronext and Deutsche Börse are the key condition.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/thedeal/20050801/bs_deal_thedeal/competitionpaneltoclearlsebid

 

Antitrust watchdog says takeover of London Stock Exchange would hurt competition

LONDON -- A takeover of the London Stock Exchange PLC by either Euronext NV or Deutsche Boerse AG would damage competition among clearing services, Britain's antitrust watchdog said Friday, warning that any bid would require significant changes for regulators to accept it.  The Competition Commission said an offer from either German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse or Euronext, which unites the stock exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris, would "substantially lessen competition" in the trading of British equities.  The main sticking point identified by the commission was the exchange's clearing services, or matching shares with buyers.  "Either merger would make it more difficult for other exchanges to compete with the LSE in trading U.K. equities because of both bidders' ownership or control over the future provision of clearing services to the LSE," the commission said.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/business/0508/01/biz-263908.htm

 

LSE: offer £1.5bn or we'll go it alone

The continued independence of the London Stock Exchange looks the most likely outcome of the eight-month bid battle, according to executives close to both the LSE and Euronext, its Paris-based rival.

http://money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/07/31/cnlse31.xml

 

Euronext acts to clear way for LSE bid

By Martin Waller

EURONEXT, the continental exchanges operator, will start talks with the EU Competition Commission on Monday to clear the way for an agreed bid for the London Stock Exchange. 

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-1714457,00.html

 

Opponents of 'naked' short selling picket DTCC

NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - Shareholders of several small-cap companies demonstrated outside the Manhattan offices of the Depositary Trust & Clearing Corp. on Friday to complain about the practice of "naked" short selling.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050729/3/24tes.html

 

Eurex to Set Performance Targets for U.S. Unit, People Say

July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Eurex AG's owners plan to set performance targets next week that will determine whether the world's biggest futures exchange keeps its U.S. unit open, said people familiar with the matter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aaUA_CGPOPZ4

 

As clear as mud

Yesterday's rise in the London Stock Exchange's share price gave a clear indication that the City now believes a takeover is back on the cards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1539310,00.html

 

On Europe: Board oustings start to bear fruit

It must be pretty galling. Jürgen Schrempp announces he’ll leave DaimlerChrysler and the shares leap 10 per cent. At Deutsche Börse, the stock is up 20 per cent since Werner Seifert was ousted as chief executive two months ago.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/598afb56-0048-11da-b57e-00000e2511c8.html

 

Environmental Trading News

 

Global Warming Making Hurricanes Stronger

Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming" because they suggest global warming is influencing storms now — rather than in the distant future.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricanes_global_warming;_ylt=AvIZAykK175jgefNeHzLBpEDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

 

Morgan Stanley, Citadel Chase Profit in Pollution Trading

Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- On a Monday morning in May, six brokers, ties askew, were working the phones in the London offices of Natsource LLC, as prices flickered across their computer screens.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=acc6gGKx_a5Y

 

Mayor Carl J. Amento was one of 45 municipal leaders from across the nation chosen to attend a summit on climate protection hosted by actor Robert Redford.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1345&dept_id=432724&newsid=14946375&PAG=461&rfi=9

 

Exchange & ECN News

 

BME Spanish Exchanges: In July Equity Trading Hits An All Time High Once Again

http://www.exchange-handbook.co.uk/news_story.cfm?id=54242

 

MEFF JULY TRADING VOLUMES UP 80% ON PREVIOUS YEAR

Volume posted in IBEX 35 Options 200% up on the year Stock Options 112% up on the year

Trading volume in MEFF Options and Futures in July was 1.9 million contracts, 80% up on the same month last year.  Trading volume was particularly heavy in IBEX 35 Options, at 393,969 contracts traded - 200% up on the year. Trading in Stock Options reached 739.120 million contracts, posting a 112% year on year increase. Trading in Stock Futures was 325,542 contracts, posting a 135% year on year increase.

The volume of contracts traded on MEFF in the first seven months of the year was 21.57 million, which represents a 42% increase on the same period last year.  Futures on the Ibex 35, MEFF's spearhead product, reached 2.8 million contracts , 9% up on the year. Single stock futures, at 10.3 million contracts, posted growth of 79% and Ibex 35 Options, at 2.6 million contracts, posted a 58% year on year increase.

 

CBOT Fed Funds July Settlement

The CBOT 30-Day Fed Fund futures contract for July 2005 will be cash settled this morning at a final settlement price of 96.737.

http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/cont_detail/0,3206,1027+19856,00.html

 

CBOT Strike Price Notice August 1, 2005

http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/cont_detail/0,3206,1032+29675,00.html

 

CORPORATE EVENT Best Buy, Inc. (BBY) 3 for 2 Stock Split 

http://www.cme.com/clearing/clr/clradv/14562.html

 

REMINDER - SLEDS & EFPs 

http://www.cme.com/clearing/clr/clradv/14565.html

 

NYSE CEO John A. Thain Statement on Confirmations of U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox as SEC Chairman and Roel C. Campos and Annette L. Nazareth as Commissioners

http://www.nyse.com/press/1122633487624.html

 

NASDAQ and Townsend Analytics Announce TotalView Access for RealTick Customers

http://www.nasdaq.com/newsroom/news/pr2005/ne_section05_073.stm

 

OMX Exchanges Monthly Statistics July 2005

http://www.omxgroup.com/company/en/showreleases.aspx?menu=company&id=2005080120730&company=6

 

Oddly titled Merc lawsuit seeks to free money for charity

BY DAVID ROEDER AND STEVE PATTERSON Staff Reporters

At first glance, the title of the lawsuit is startling. The officers of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange appear to be suing the exchange and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

A closer look reveals that the parties aren't battling at all. But there's a big issue involved -- what will happen to more than $57 million that could be donated to charities.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-merc01.html

 

Converters still cautious about LME futures trading 

Major polymer users RPC and BPI have not entered the market.

1 August 2005 – The UK’s major plastics packaging producers seem to be adopting a cautious approach to plastics futures trading launched on the London Metal Exchange two months ago.

http://www.prw.com/main/newsdetails.asp?id=4364

 

CME to Support Rapid Volume Growth with New Market Data Platform for Customers and Quote Vendors

CHICAGO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To support its rapid growth in trading volume, CME, the largest futures exchange in the U.S., today announced the launch of its new market data distribution system, CME Market Data Platform (MDP), which will consolidate the exchange's existing CME Market Data Network (MDN) and CME Market Data API (MD Application Program Interface) into a single market data dissemination platform. The new platform and interface were launched the evening of Sunday, July 31 in order to coincide with the opening of trading on CME(R) Globex(R) electronic trading platform. CME MDP will combine the benefits of the two systems previously used by the exchange while delivering market data messages more efficiently, using less bandwidth and providing the scalability for future data growth for customers and market data quote vendors.

http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=200508011452_PRN__CGM028&symbols=INDUSTRY:906

 

SGX looks to make retail investors forum a regular affair

SINGAPORE : The Singapore Exchange has held its first Investor Relations Open Day. The aim of the forum was to provide an avenue for retail investors to speak with the management and find out more about the company.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/160678/1/.html

 

NYMEX Lists Argus Media Energy Prices

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., and Argus Media announced today that the Exchange has licensed access to Argus' worldwide energy market price assessments for use in the clearing and trading of energy commodities through NYMEX ACCESS®, its after-hours electronic trading system, and NYMEX ClearPort® its electronic trading and clearing platform.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050801/dam037.html?.v=19

Regulatory News

 

The SEC News Digest

The SEC News Digest provides daily information on recent Commission actions, including enforcement proceedings, rule filings, policy statements, and upcoming Commission meetings.

http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/dig072905.txt

 

FSA restricts Jonathan Elms following pensions review failures

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/PR/2005/087.shtml

 

FSA fines Bear Stearns for transaction reporting failures

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/PR/2005/086.shtml

 

SEC, CFTC Amend Exchange Acts

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted technical amendments to the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 providing a method for determining market capitalization and dollar value of average daily trading volume.

http://www.compliancereporter.com/default.asp?page=1&SID=537913&ISS=17887&pressbox=1

 

NASAA issues warning on phantom “regulators”

Fake regulators based in U.S. targeting overseas investors

http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?Id=29853&IdSection=8&cat=8

 

RS reports progress on strategic review of trading rules

Final set of strategic principles to be unveiled this fall

Market Regulation Services Inc. (RS) has published an interim report detailing the progress of its strategic review of the trading rules.

http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?Id=29848&IdSection=8&cat=8

 

Association Calls On New Chairman To Lead On Balanced, Effective Regulation

http://www.sia.com/press/2005_press_releases/04641211.html

 

Joint Associations Statement on the need for Comitology in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD)

http://www.isda.org/speeches/pdf/commentlettersonjointassociatestmt071105.pdf

 

SEC Rule Requires Disclosure Of Broker-Dealer Status, by Glen Shapiro, LawAndTax-News.com, New York 01 August 2005

A new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule which came into force last month requires brokerages to disclose in a "prominent" position in their documentation whether they are acting as investment advisers or merely as broker dealers.

http://www.investorsoffshore.com/asp/story/storyinv.asp?storyname=20653

 

SEC Investigates Indiana Brokerage

SEC Freezes Assets of Minister-Turned-Financier Who Built Churches Across the Country

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=993922&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

 

AG BID TO LASSO GRASSO E-MAIL

July 29, 2005 -- Prosecutors for state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer are trying to get access to an overlooked e-mail account held by former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso.

http://www.nypost.com/business/50538.htm

 

Moody's gets subpoenas from Spitzer

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer subpoenaed Moody's Corp. , which runs one of the largest credit rating agencies, for documents on how it rates reinsurers and mortgage securities, broadening his probe of Wall Street practices.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050729/bs_nm/financial_moodys_earns_dc_4

 

Risk and Insurance : Did Spitzer Miss High Noon?

Did Spitzer Miss High Noon? Eliminating contingent commissions is a more complex directive than it seems on the surface. Many brokers and carriers are turning a deaf ear to the call for change, especially in the employee benefits arena.

http://www.riskandinsurance.com/050801_feature_6.asp

 

SEC's Cox May Not Relax Rules, Fines, Disappointing Business

U.S. Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Christopher Cox, the newly confirmed chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, may not offer much regulatory relief to the businesses that backed his 16- year career in the House of Representatives.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aDyd2byA2iYE

 

Watchdog may change insider trading criteria

August 01, 2005 The financial watchdog's definition of "insider traders," who are not allowed to use information not available to the public when investing in stocks or futures, is likely to expand to include executives and employees of some company subsidiaries.  Yoon Jeung-hyun, chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission, said at a seminar on Jeju island on Saturday that financial regulators are planning to consider anyone with access to internal information, not just company employees, as insider traders.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200507/31/200507312211031609900090509052.html

 

Options Need New Master: SEC Falls Short as Regulator

Mark Longo

(Traders Magazine, July 2005) -- Regular readers of my column know that I am not a fan of the SEC. As a market maker on the CBOE, I watched in horror as the SEC sat on its hands and allowed inefficiency to run rampant throughout the options markets. As a columnist, I have repeatedly criticized the SEC's refusal to act on payment for order flow and other crucial issues facing the industry.

http://www.tradersmagazine.com/magazine2.cfm?id=1&aid=2304

 

Managed Futures - Managed Funds

 

U.S. hedge funds see 60% drop in cash inflow

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050801/RHEDGE01/TPBusiness/MoneyMarkets

 

Summit Partners buys into hedge fund

Summit Partners is buying a one-third stake in $5 billion hedge fund Coast Asset Management LLC.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/08/01/daily4.html?from_rss=1

 

Hedge fund guru offers advice

MIAMI | In the last 5½ years, hedge fund manager Michael O'Higgins chalked up astounding returns one year, fabulous another, decent in two more and one down year.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/12268453.htm

 

Nuveen Investments to Acquire Santa Barbara Asset Management to Expand Growth Equity Expertise and Product Line

Nuveen Investments , a leading provider of diversified investment management services, today announced an agreement to acquire Santa Barbara Asset Management, a highly respected investment manager with $2.8 billion of assets under management.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050801/15424.html?.v=1

 

The rich are flocking to mutual funds

Wealthy Americans, who can afford the market's raciest investments, have taken to some of its most old fashioned mutual funds. In the last two years, people who are worth $5 million or more doubled the percentage of money they invest in mutual funds to 12 percent from 6 percent in 2003, according to a study released by Spectrem Group last week.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/business/3289040

 

Take Care With New Commodity Investment Products

TORONTO (ResourceInvestor.com) -- With reference to the article written recently -  Benchmarking Commodity Investments - I would urge a great deal of caution in this arena.  The CRB Index data, for example, has just been radically altered with energy components jumping from 17.6% to a 39% weighting as of June 30, 2005, just after Crude Oil touched $60 for the first time.  In its first month, it is already apparent that day-to-day volatility has changed.

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=11749

 

Reports

 

Bond Talk Today's Events

http://www.bondtalk.com/global.cfm?S=todaysevents

 

USDA Today

http://www.usda.gov/nass/PUBS/TODAYRPT/TODAY.HTM

 

Miscellaneous News

 

Recent Trends in the Exchange Landscape

http://www.rolfeandnolan.com/default.aspx.locid-0fdnew07k.htm

 

NetScout's nGenius Solution Supports Real-Time Performance of Time-Sensitive Trading Applications for Shanghai Futures

NetScout Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of network and application performance management solutions, today announced that the Shanghai Futures Exchange has deployed its nGenius® Performance Management System to help optimize the performance of time-sensitive trading and back-office applications, which handle more than a trillion dollars in futures contracts annually.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050801/nem007.html?.v=18

 

Saudi King Fahd dies; smooth handover to Abdullah

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0XVHA4TGV14EOCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=9232377

 

Final days to nominate innovative businesses

Wednesday is the deadline for nominations for the 2005 Chicago Innovation Awards.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-innovate01.html

 

Morgan Stanley to cut 10% of brokers

Firm plans to focus on recruiting experienced brokers

http://www.investmentexecutive.com/client/en/News/DetailNews.asp?Id=29839&IdSection=5&cat=5

 

Citi, JPMorgan, Top Energy Lenders, Can't Match Goldman Traders

Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. lend more money to more energy companies and utilities than anyone. Trouble is the No. 1 and No. 3 U.S. banks don't come close to matching the profits Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. make trading electricity, natural gas and oil.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=avt5s3yyG_DE&refer=news_index

 

Commentary - Transforming Risk Processes to Integrate Risk Management, Compliance, and IT Processes into the Transaction Lifecycle - The Asian Experience

http://www.garp.com/risknews/newsfeed.asp?Category=6&MyFile=2005-08-01-11238.html

 

The Clearing Corporation and Exchange Systems Technology Announce Plan for integrated Clearing and Back Office System

http://www.clearingcorp.com/press/pressreleases/050629exchgsystech.html#P1_0

 

TH Lee to double money in Refco IPO

Refco Inc. , Boston firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP stands to recoup more than one-third of its equity investment when Refco goes public, and Lee's investment will have more than doubled in value.

http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/StandardArticle&c=TDDArticle&cid=1121176521477&r=InFs&p=M4YD5AR2

 

New Initiatives at BRASS

Nina Mehta

SunGard's BRASS trade order management system earned its stripes on the back of its OTC market-making ability. For more than a decade, it has been the leading platform for market-makers. About 70 percent of Nasdaq orders currently go through BRASS. But with the trading landscape changing and competition gearing up among sellside OMS's, BRASS has had to emphasize its strengths.

http://www.tradersmagazine.com/magazine2.cfm?id=1&aid=2307&year=2005

 

Events to Attend – Canada

 

Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference

Conference Program: Adding Value with Alternative Strategies

http://www.cadc2005.com/

 

John's Comments

 

FOWeek Headlines   Issue 1030  01-Aug-2005

http://www.fow.com/

 

• FX objection disrupts CFTC reauthorisation

• Blackstone building $12.5bn takeover fund

• McGraw Hill, CME settle S&P case

• Refco SEC listing filing values broker at up to $2.68bn

• CBoT revenue and profits up on record volumes

• CME announces record earnings

• Euronext, Atos integrate technology

Japan’s C-Com to launch scrap iron futures

• Refco buys Greenwich

• SGX warrants reclassification counteracts falling futures http://www.fow.com/articles/foweek_article.asp?storyCode=3625

 

FOW Latest Issue  Issue 411  01-Aug-2005

• Navigating recruitment http://www.fow.com/articles/fow_article.asp?storyCode=3613

• A difficult path

• Behind the scenes

• Bruce is back

• CBOT up for sale?

• Consulting on commodities

• Convertible bonds

• Credit derivatives

• Down on the farm

• Euro swaps

 

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CME® E-Livestock Report - July 2005

Topics in this issue include:
CME Globex. Fee Reductions for CME E-Livestock
Coming soon: Implied Spreading Functionality on CME E-Livestock
CME E-Livestock Quote Page
Learn more about CME Livestock Markets - Free Daily E-Newsletter

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US Option Exchange’s Market share

 

July 2005 Equity Options Market share:

CBOE- 26.96%

AMEX -14.09%

PHLX - 10.12%

PCX- 9.09%

ISE-33.15%  

BOX -6.59%

 

July 2004 Equity Options Market share

CBOE-25.52%

AMEX-18.45%

PHLX- 10.82%

PCX- 8.47%

ISE- 34.45%

BOX- 2.29%

 

July 2005 Total Options Market share:

CBOE -31.88%

AMEX -13.48%

PHLX - 9.63%

PCX - 8.30%

ISE -30.69%

BOX- 6.02%

 

July 2004 Total Options Market share:

CBOE - 30.45%

AMEX- 17.60%

PHLX - 10.43%

PCX -7.78%

ISE - 31.64%

BOX -2.11%

 

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Brent Crude Watch

 

IPE Brent Volume:

NYMEX Brent Crude Volume:

NYMEX Percent of Total Volume:

 

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Chicago Electronic Trading Scorecard for July 29, 2005

 

Percent Electronic

 

CBOT: 65.77%

CME: 70.77%

CME Eurodollars: 80.98%

CME Live Cattle: 3.25%

CME Currency Products: 90.61%

CBOT Soybeans: 2.72%

 

CBOT Options: 2.02%

CME Options: 6.23%

 

Volume 

 

OneChicago Volume: 9470

Eurex US Volume: 4306

Euronext.liffe Eurodollar Volume: 9392

CBOE Futures Exchange Volume: 421

 

Market Share

 

CBOT 100 oz. Gold Volume: 1265

NYMEX 100 oz. Gold Volume: 49,173

CBOT Share: 2.51%

 

CBOT 5000 oz. Silver Volume: 176

NYMEX 5000 oz. Silver Volume: 26,866

CBOT Share:

 

CBOT Mini Gold Volume: 1894

CBOT Mini Silver Volume: 430

 

Notes: The CME traded 1275 Live Cattle contracts on Globex on Friday.

 

Liffe Eurodollar Over-Under

 

Liffe/Globex: .89%

Liffe/CME: .72%

 

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John J. Lothian

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