The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) just announced its March market volumes report. Here are the highlights: SET Index closed at 1,575.11 points, up 2.08 pct from end-2016. Average daily securities trading value at THB 43.19 bln, down 17.83% YoY Market cap at THB 15.8 trillion, a 2.01% rise from end-2016 The Stock Exchange of Thailand…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that Rosneft and Alrosa have become the first ever corporates to obtain direct market access (DMA) and trade on Moscow Exchange's FX Market. From 16 January 2017, Russian legal entities not qualified as credit institutions or professional market participants have been eligible to operate on the currency market on the…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX: X) today announced March 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved another open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,645 contracts on March 7, 2017 (315,410 contracts on…
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The Board of Directors of SIX has selected Sabir Sheikh to head up issuer regulation and Jared Bibler to be in charge of trading supervision at SIX Exchange Regulation. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved the selection. This means that the Management Committee of SIX Exchange Regulation, led by Corinne Riguzzi, is…
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CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the successful launch of S&P 500 and E-mini S&P 500 Monday Weekly options on futures. The total volume through the first two trading days was 5,490 contracts with participation from 10 firms. Open interest reached 5,319 as of today, April 4th. Launched in…
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Forex volume on CME Group it was announced earlier averaged 978,000 contracts per day in March 2017, up 7% from March 2016 and up 28% from February 2017. Last month Brazilian real currency contracts helped drive volume, as the Latin American country's currency has come back after being battered over the past few years. Highlights for March…
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In March 2017, total trading volumes across Moscow Exchange`s markets amounted to RUB 85.3 trln. Turnover grew on the Equity and Bond Market (+55.3%), Money Market (+22.7%) and FX Market (+19.0%). Equity and Bond Market Total trading volumes on the Equity and Bond Market grew by 55.3% to RUB 3,057.0 bln (March 2016: RUB 1,968.8…
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Rate hike expectations support trading volumes With the release of March's turnover on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets also comes the first quarter report of derivatives exchange Eurex. With further US interest rate hikes on the horizon and a looming end to Quantitative Easing, demand for market instruments to hedge risk has been growing strongly in the first quarter. Hedging…
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SIX Swiss Exchange just announced that March was the strongest month so far this year in terms of both trading turnover and the number of transactions. However, in January there were two and in February three fewer trading days than in March. But even when this factor is taken into account, the two figures are…
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Turnover on Deutsche Börse's cash markets totalled €135.7 billion in March, a significant increase on the €120.9 billion seen in the same month of 2016. This increase was largely driven by the daily auctions in Xetra trading, which are held at opening, midday and end of trading. Order book turnover in auctions provided 52% of…
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