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1. Stock Options: Introduction of Stock Options on European Underling Instruments
The Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges and the Executive Board of Eurex Clearing AG decided on the introduction of three equity options on European shares (block IV), mainly on components of the Dow Jones STOXXÒ 600 Index, effective June 1, 2009. For these equity options, only Regular Market-Making and Permanent Market-Making will be offered. They are not part of the Advanced Market-Making (AMM) packages. The minimum amount of tradable units for OTC Wholesale facilities is one contract.
2. Amazon.com Inc. and Kühne & Nagel Internat. AG: Reduction of Decimals for SSFs
The Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges and the Executive Board of Eurex Clearing AG decided to reduce decimals for the minimum price change for Single Stock Futures on Amazon.com Inc. (AMZF) and Kühne & Nagel Internat. AG (KNIG) from 0.0001 to 0.001 with effect from June 1, 2009.
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Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message.
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