Exchanges
CME Group launched U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil steel futures contracts and expanded random length lumber futures and options on futures contracts and now offers them on CME Globex. www.cmegroup.com
The Intercontinental Exchange will launch ICE Millions, million currency unit versions of 12 existing foreign exchange futures contracts, in November. www.theice.com
MGEX made enhancements to its hard red spring wheat (HRSW) futures contract settlement process. www.mgex.com
NYSE Arca, Inc. launched the pilot phase of the Complex Order Book. The pilot will trade only QQQQ while NYSE Arca gathers performance information and customer feedback. www.nyse.com
Indexes
Russell Investments added 39 initial public offerings to the Russell Global Index. www.russell.com/indexes
Forex
FXCM now uses the Traiana NetLink retail ticket netting system www.fxcm.com .
GAIN is now a liquidity provider to FlexTrade Systems’ FlexFX platform. www.forex.com
ETFs
Invesco PowerShares now lists the PowerShares Emerging Markets Infrastructure Portfolio ETF. www.invescopowershares.com
Other
Interactive Brokers will begin its fourth annual IB Collegiate Trading Olympiad on Jan. 12, 2009. www.interactivebrokers.com
Mirus Futures now offers live streaming data from Eurex integrated with the Zen-Fire trading engine. www.mirusfutures.com
eSignal launched the FutureSource Ag Workstation. www.esignal.com
GL Trade now offers direct market access to the Indonesia Stock Exchange. www.gltrade.com
SoftCapital introduced a new trading tool, RadarLite. www.softcapital.com
Yorba TV added a blog section to the Yorba TV network. www.yorba.tv
Wave59 Technologies released Wave59 RT 3.0, a real time technical market analysis program. www.wave59.com
Actuarials Holdings LLC launched the Clipper, a standard manufacture derivative that structurally caps a gain or loss from an underlying asset to a clip limit amount. www.actuarials.com
