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Oct 09, 2015

Eurex Bonds

Yield-traded instruments in simulation

With Xetra® Release 16.0 trading in negative yields will be possible on Eurex Bonds. Xetra® Release 16.0 will be introduced on 30 November 2015.

The Xetra® Release 16.0 simulation environment is already available where Participants have the possibility to test trading in negative yields.

After the conversion to Xetra® Release 16.0, Eurex Bonds will change from price trading to yield trading for all zero bonds. Participants will be informed by a separate Eurex Bonds circular in due time.

For testing purposes, zero bonds instruments have been set up for yield trading in the Eurex Bonds simulation environment. Please see this circular for details.

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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