This autumn, the masterpiece The Leaping Horse by renowned English landscape painter John Constable will be on view in the Rijksmuseum. This impressive painting from 1825 is one of the masterpieces of the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In the Rijksmuseum, Constable's painting will be juxtaposed with masterpieces from the 17th-century landscape painters Ruisdael, Hobbema and Koninck.

The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and the Nieuwe Kerk church will be jointly presenting the exhibition 'HERO' from 11 August 2007 through to 11 November 2007 in the Nieuwe Kerk church in Amsterdam. The occasion for the HERO exhibition is the commemoration of the 400th birthday of one of the greatest heroes in Dutch history: Michiel de Ruyter.

For the first time, a selection of masterpieces from the ING Collection can be seen together with works from the Rijksmuseum collection at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The exhibition, Dutch Realism, includes eight paintings from the ING Collection by magical realists Carel Willink, Dick Ket, Wim Schuhmacher, Raoul Hynckes and Edgar Fernhout, amongst others.

Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, will cut the cost of registering UK and US Universal Stock Futures ("USFs") through its Bclear service by up to 41% from 1 May 2007.

Today's market start of Rexel on the Eurolist compartment of Euronext Paris was a success. The company placed 61.53 million shares to raise a total of EUR 1.02 billion, making this the largest listing on any Euronext market since the beginning of the year.

The shares of New York Stock Exchange Euronext began trading today, first on Euronext in Paris at 9:00 a.m. and soon to follow in New York on the NYSE at 9:30 a.m.. The opening share price on Euronext Paris for the newly merged company was €75. A total of 257,598,971 NYSE Euronext shares were admitted to listing.

SGAM Alternative Investments announces the launch on Euronext Paris of two ETFs offering a reverse exposure to the variation of the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® ("Bear strategy"). The two ETFs were admitted for listing yesterday on the active ETFs compartment of Euronext's NextTrack segment, and are the first "Bear" ETFs to be launched on the flagship index of the eurozone.

Cash products: Euronext cash markets registered their busiest month ever with a record 28.5 million transactions completed in March 2007, up 35.3% on the same month last year. The average daily number of cash transactions stands at 1.3 million, its highest level ever.

Euronext announced today that it will make two new high capacity trading services available to its market participants in 2007. The new services have been designed to offer the fastest possible unified access to Euronext cash and derivatives markets, and will complement the existing access solutions.

French market regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers published the preliminary results of the exchange offer by New York Stock Exchange Euronext Inc., through its indirect whollyowned subsidiary NYSE Euronext N.V., for all outstanding shares of Euronext N.V.. The offer expired on March 21, 2007.

Euronext and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange today announced the signature of a Master Agreement1 giving concrete form to an agreement for mutual cooperation established during prior discussions between the two parties.

Euronext listed the largest one day listing of warrants on Euronext Lisbon ever. All the 170 plain vanilla warrants, issued by Commerzbank, will be listed on Easynext Warrants, the structured products exchange regulated market, managed by Euronext Lisbon.