NYSE Group, Inc. reported October 2006 transaction volume in all securities traded by NYSE Group. This report represents the NYSE Group monthly volume release issued on a combined basis for NYSE and NYSE Arca.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) today announced plans to establish clearing services for two new over-the-counter (OTC) Ethanol Calendar Swap contracts. The new products, which will include contracts for both forward and previous month calendar swaps, will be based on the price of CBOT Ethanol futures contracts. Scheduled to be introduced on December 4, 2006, CBOT Ethanol Swap contracts are the first exchange-cleared OTC products to be specifically tailored for use in the ethanol industry.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced that it successfully launched open auction trading of its options on Full-sized Gold (100 oz.) and Silver (5,000 oz.) futures contracts. The contracts now trade side-by-side on the Exchange’s electronic trading platform and open auction arena. On the first day of trading, Gold and Silver options open auction volume totaled 381 contracts.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®), one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that October’s volume was 66,975,744 contracts, an increase of 35 percent over October 2005. Volume for the month averaged 3,044,352 contracts per day, up 29 percent from the same month last year. Average daily volume (ADV) on the Exchange’s e-cbot® electronic trading platform was 2,099,914 contracts in October, a 29 percent increase compared with October of 2005.
Running out of money is the number one retirement concern for the majority of respondents, according to a new survey by Brown & Tedstrom, Inc., a Denver-based financial planning and investment advisory firm that manages over $300 million in assets for people in or near retirement. In spite of this, the same majority is only saving 10 percent or less of their current income and can only live 10 years or less on their current savings
According to Research and Markets China's telecommunications market is one of the largest in the world and remains almost completely under the thrall of the state; therefore foreign-owned companies have little or no chance of directly operating networks or providing services in mainland China, except in co-operation with state-owned or approved entities.
Sharply declining energy prices and hopes for an economic "soft-landing" sent small business owner optimism to its highest level in a year and a half, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index.
There's a growing consensus among economic and financial experts on the rate at which the real estate bubble will deflate. It will be a slow leak, they say. But the reality is far more chilling.
18.8 million transactions were completed on Euronext’s cash markets in October 2006, up 28.3% on October 2005, making the month the busiest October ever, with a daily average of 854,000 transactions.
