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Apr 07, 2006

Eurex

DAX®, Dow Jones EURO STOXX® 50 and SMI®: Introduction of Weekly Options

In their session on March 8, 2006, the Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges took the decision to introduce options with weekly expiration dates. The introduction will take place on April 24, 2006.

Eurex Weekly Options will be introduced as independent products on benchmark indexes DAX® and Dow Jones EURO STOXX® 50 as well as the Swiss SMI®.

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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

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. 

We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.

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