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Jan 14, 2010

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Measures in Weekly Options

In order to further promote trading activities in Weekly Options based on the equity indexes DAX® and Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® the Management Boards of the Eurex Exchanges decided in their session on January 13, 2010, to continue offering a revenue sharing scheme for Market Makers in both products from February 1, 2010 until December 31, 2011.

Quotation of Weekly Options on the SMI® index will be discontinued effective February 1, 2010. At the same time, the exercise price interval in Weekly Options on the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® will change from currently 50 to 25 index points.

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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