1.   This would enable each exchange to trade its own local products, with international or pan-European contracts being traded perhaps on screens within the EC.

2.   At other commodity exchanges, the picture is not quite as glum, in large part because many exchanges trade financial futures, which have done well.

3.   Exchanges trade options wholesale for brokers who in turn buy or sell them for retail or institutional customers.

4.   Legislation in Taiwan to allow the local exchange to trade local futures has been stuck amid concern that local investors would speculate in risky commodity markets.

5.   North American trading of dollars was closed yesterday for the Labor Day holiday, though overseas exchanges traded the currencies.

6.   North American trading of dollars was closed yesterday due to the Labor Day holiday, though overseas exchanges traded the currencies.

7.   Sumitomo Trust announced its plans to raise funds yesterday after Japanese exchanges suspended trading of its shares.

8.   The exchange also trades futures based on the value of the Venezuelan currency, the bolivar.

9.   The exchange also trades options on stock indexes that are offered by no other exchange.

10.   The exchange trades futures and options on wheat, rye, oats, flax seed and other agricultural commodities.