Effective 19 March, new index weights will apply for companies in the equity indices of Deutsche Börse. Deutsche Börse released the preliminary weighting figures on Wednesday. An update of the prelimary weighting will be published on Friday.

Changes in the composition of the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG were announced today. Matthias Ganz and Mathias Hlubek have resigned from their position as Members of the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG effective today. The contracts of employment have been revoked amicably and in mutual agreement. Deutsche Börse made the announcement on Wednesday.

Wednesday saw the first IPO in Prime Standard (Official Market) in 2007 as KROMI Logistik AG went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The initial price stands at €22.00. The issue price (fixed price) stood at €20.00, while the placement volume in shares totaled 1,305,000.

Clearstream processed 2.38 million international transactions in February 2007, a 4% rise over February 2006 (2.28 million). Of these transactions, 74 percent were Over the Counter transactions and 26 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions. Domestic settlement transactions in Germany stood at 3.41 million compared to 3.43 million for the same month last year. Of these transactions 66 percent were stock exchange transactions and 34 percent OTC transactions.

Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, today announced that it will use a new Bloomberg model to calculate the final settlement prices of its new credit index future, which will be launched on 27 March. These prices will be displayed and can be analyzed on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service. The support of this new product category by industry leaders Eurex and Bloomberg will open new opportunities in a growing asset class.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex traded 135.7 million contracts in February, an increase of over 26 percent as against February 2006 (108 million contracts). On 28 February, Eurex reached a new daily turnover record with 12.8 million contracts (previous record from 13 June 2006 stood at 12.2 million). The average daily turnover in February was 6.7 million contracts.

In February €206.1 billion were turned over on Xetra and on the floor of Börse Frankfurt - a rise of 58 percent year-on-year (February 2006: €129.9 billion). Thereof €190.7 billion were traded on Xetra gaining 64 percent year-on-year (February 2006: €116.6 billion) and €15.5 billion on the floor. A plus of 16 percent compared to February last year (February 2006: €13.3 billion).

Due to the merger of the two TecDAX® companies Mobilcom AG and freenet.de AG into Telunico Holding AG (future Freenet AG), an unscheduled adjustment will be made to the TecDAX index, effective on March 5. Telunico Holding AG (future Freenet AG) will be included in TecDAX as of Monday, replacing Mobilcom AG.