Exchanges
CME Group began listing weather contracts on seven additional cities: Oslo, Norway, Little Rock, Ark., Los Angeles, Calif., Colorado Springs, Colo., Jacksonville, Fla., Raleigh, N.C. and Washington D.C. Cooling degree day contracts and heating degree day contracts are now available and weekly contracts will start in July. www.cmegroup.com
The Intercontinental Exchange introduced floor-based mini options, including serial options, on the mini Russell 1000 and mini Russell 2000 Index futures contracts. www.theice.com
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange launched West Texas Intermediate Light Sweet Crude Oil and Brent Crude Oil futures contracts. www.dgcx.ae
Liffe launched one month futures contracts on the Eonia (Euro Overnight Indexed Average) and the Sonia (Sterling Overnight Indexed Average), and a three month Eonia Swap Index futures contract. www.euronext.com
Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) extended its Research Incentive Scheme for an additional two years. The scheme, which promotes research coverage on SGX-listed companies, now allows for new applications each quarter. www.sgx.com
Euronext Paris introduced four new EasyETF trackers of credit derivatives and infrastructure indexes. www.nyx.com
NYSE Euronext launched a Next Biotech index composed of biotech companies and launched two additional Northern Exchange Traded Shares ETF products. Also, NYSE Euronext’s SFTI network is now connected to the National Stock Exchange. www.nyse.com
Trading Platforms
NeuroDimension Incorporated released version 2.0 of Trader68, a Windows-based orders execution system. www.trader68.com
TS Support released a new version of the MultiCharts trading platform with a true dynamic portfolio back-testing feature. www.tssupport.com
Indexes
MSCI Barra announced changes to the MSCI U.S. Equity, Global Value and Growth, Asia APEX 50, Kokunai Japan Equity, Pan-Euro and Euro Indexes. www.mscibarra.com
Forex
Interbank FX unveiled a new co-brand identity as IBFX.com and launched a new Web site. www.ibfx.com
Options
OptionsHouse announced a partnership with OptionAlarm, a provider of options trading tips. www.optionshouse.com
Other
Orbeo was selected as a market maker for the first futures contracts of Canadian carbon dioxide equivalent units on the Montreal Climate Exchange. www.orbeo.com
Dukascopy – SWFX Swiss FX Marketplace added EFG Bank to its network of partner banks. www.dukascopy.com
Newedge Hong Kong expanded its financial futures and options offering by increasing its staff there. www.newedgegroup.com
Cogency Software opened a New York City office. www.cogencysoft.com
The Symbol Management Clearing Corporation, a joint venture of Spooz Technologies and SFB Market Systems, introduced the SymbolToolz module as part of their Symbol Manager and Symbol Master symbol request, approval and management process. www.spooz.com
