Euronext and Institut de l'Epargne Immobilière et Foncière (IEIF) have joined forces to produce a new index with a view to raising the profile of the listed real-estate sector in Europe. Set for launch on 4 June, the index will be called Euronext IEIF REIT Europe.

A report released today: commissioned by Euronext.liffe to coincide with the one month anniversary of the launch of its Government Bond Index Futures contracts, highlights fundamental problems that the new contracts have been designed to solve.

Under the rules for the AEX-index, the Amsterdam Midkap index and the Amsterdam Small cap index, each index is reweighted annually after the close of the markets on the first day of trading in March. This year's reweighting will lead to the following changes in the composition of the AEX, AMX and AScX indices, which will come into effect on Friday 2 March 2007.

Cash products: Euronext cash markets registered their second busiest month ever with a record 22.6 million transactions completed in February 2007, up 25.3% on the same month last year and up 24.7% year-to-date. This follows January 2007, which was the busiest month since the creation of Euronext.

On Monday 26 February 2007 China's Vice-Minister of Finance and Secretary-General of China Accounting Standards Committee (CASC) Mr. Wang Jun held a high-level meeting with Euronext Managing Board Member Hugh Freedberg and Executive Director of Listing and Issuers Martine Charbonnier.

Euronext N.V. today announced a proposal to the holders of its £ 250 million 5.125% Notes due 2009 to insert a call option at gilt flat for an early redemption of the Notes. Euronext seeks through this proposal to gain flexibility to possibly restructure or refinance its debt at lower cost in the future.

As of 5 March 2007, Euroclear NIEC (Nederlands Interprofessioneel Effectencentrum NIEC B.V.) will serve as the National Numbering Agent for newly issued securities in the Netherlands. The transfer of this service from Euronext Amsterdam will take place in accordance with the rules of the Association of National Numbering Agencies for role transfers.

On Monday 26 February 2007, 195 exchange listed open-end investment funds will be transferred to the Euronext Fund Service, making investing in these funds more efficient and transparent.

NYSE Euronext, Inc., NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V. have announced that NYSE Euronext, Inc., through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary NYSE Euronext (Holding) N.V., will commence an exchange offer today, Thursday, February 15 for all of the outstanding shares of Euronext.

Euronext and LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd. have recently been engaged in discussions regarding Euronext's investment in LCH.Clearnet, consisting of ordinary shares (representing 24.9% of LCH.Clearnet's fully-diluted share capital) and redeemable, convertible preference shares (representing 16.6% of LCH.Clearnet's fully-diluted share capital, which are redeemable under their terms in December 2008).

The fourth quarter of 2006 has been the second busiest quarter of the year and the highest fourth quarter ever. In Q4 2006, Euronext revenues increased by 5.9% compared to the same period in 2005, leading to an all-time record level of annual revenues of €1,102.2m, an increase of 14.6% compared to 2005 revenues. The high level of revenues in 2006 has been driven by ongoing strong market conditions for nearly every business unit.