21.   He refused to say for how long the exchange planned to operate at its temporary location.

22.   Large stock markets battened down and refused to close early today as Hurricane Floyd approached, but many small financial exchanges planned to shut before the normal closing time.

23.   The exchange planned an abbreviated trading session Friday.

24.   The exchanges are planning to merge and then list next year.

25.   The Deutsche Boerse approved the deal on Friday, and the London exchange planned to approve the merger, the sources said.

26.   The Pacific exchange also plans to help the Shanghai exchange develop surveillance and regulatory systems.

27.   The two exchanges plan to harmonize market rules and accounting standards, and plan eventually to set up a single electronic trading system.

28.   Dealers said the exchange also planned to list other Gulf companies which currently trade their shares by telephone through brokers.

29.   Separately Xinhua news agency quoted SSE chairman Li Xiangrui as saying the exchange planned to install a new computer tracking system to monitor the entire trading system.