Eurex
As of 13 March 2017, Eurex Participants and investors domiciled in the U.S. will have the following additional product available for trading:
The Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved the certification request by Eurex Deutschland for its EURO STOXX 50® Index Total Return Futures (TESX).
Pursuant to Eurex Deutschland’s registration with the CFTC as a foreign board of trade, EURO STOXX 50® Index Total Return Futures can be offered to U.S. persons via Eurex terminals with direct access in the U.S. or sold to these persons.
The respective new Product Assignment Group is XACFQE (before: XNCFQE).
For traders currently authorized to trade the product TESX, the new Product Assignment Group must be assigned. This is the case for all Trading Authorizations and Transaction Size Limits.
Please note that despite the assignment of the product TESX to the new Product Assignment Group, the Multicast addresses for data distribution will remain unchanged. Port numbers, however, will change as follows:
Market Status ⓘ
XEUR
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.
An instant update of the Market Status requires an enabled up-to date Java™ version within the browser.
