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In their session on March 4, 2009, the Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges and the Executive Board of Eurex Clearing AG decided on the introduction of equity options on shares of the Dow Jones STOXXÒ 600 Index.
The introduction of the currently planned 109 equity options will take place in several blocks. The first block which consists of 40 German, Italian and Swiss equity options will be introduced on March 23, 2009, April 6, 2009 and April 13, 2009, respectively.
The following changes will become effective upon the introduction of the new equity options:
· Introduction of new group IDs
· For equity options with these new group IDs, the following applies:
Market Status ⓘ
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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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