Trading volume at the international derivatives exchange Eurex reached 179.5 million contracts, a rise of 11 percent year on year (July 2007: 162.4 million). The average daily trading volume was 7.8 million compared with 7.4 million the same month a year ago. Driver of growth was especially the segment equity index derivatives.

The media had reports that National Aluminium Company Limited may shut down alumina refinery located at Damanjodi in South Orissa.

The results of the absentee vote by the RTS Information Committee members on the inclusion of OJSC "FGC UES" and JSC "INTER RAO UES" shares into the RTS Indices waiting list became known on July 25th, 2008.

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), is rolling out two new technologies that, respectively, give brokers on the NYSE trading floor the ability to trade algorithmically, and strengthen the brokers' ability to locate large sources of liquidity.

London Stock Exchange has today outlined its new price list for trading services. It will take effect from 1 September 2008 and applies to all trading clients. The new pricing structure is designed to:

In July 2008, the number of trades executed on Xetra reached more than 19 million transactions – up 21 percent compared to July 2007 with 16.1 million trades. Order book turnover on Xetra recorded €193.2 billion (July 2007: €222.3 billion), down by 13 percent. On Xetra and the Frankfurt floor €188.7 billion were turned over in German equities and €9.2 billion in foreign shares.

Over the week of July 21st – 25th, 2008, the RTS Index went down by 8,62% to reach 1951,29 points (2135,38 points as of July 18th, 2008).

After 9 trackers and 12 listings in June, the EasyETF range has been further enhanced with 9 ETFs and 13 listings on NYSE Euronext’s European markets. Covering the major topical themes, they provide the best access today for the challenges of tomorrow.

The Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited censures New World Development Company Limited (Stock code: 17) for breaching paragraph 2 of the then Listing Agreement.

NYSE Euronext announced the listing of Germany1 Acquisition Limited, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), on its Amsterdam market.

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced it has obtained committed financing to support its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. The committed financing takes the form of a $3.2 billion bridge financing facility with Bank of America and UBS.

The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for July 14-18.