| CBOT MINI DOW JONES FUTURES On April 4th, the Chicago Board of Trade will begin trading Mini- sized futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. PC-SPAN parameters are as follows: * Clearing Organization: BOTCC * Exchange: CBT * Product Codes: YM * Product Name: Mini DJIA * Product Type: Future * Settlement Currency: USD * Contract Value Factor: 50 * Settlement Method: CASH * Price Quotation Method: IDX (Index) * Valuation Method: FUT (Futures-Style) * Settlement Price Decimal Locator: 2 CME S&P TOPIX 150 FUTURES On March 18th, CME began trading yen-denominated futures on the Standard & Poors TOPIX 150. PC-SPAN parameters are as follows: * Clearing Organization: CME * Exchange: CME * Product Codes: TX * Product Name: S&P TOPIX * Product Type: Future * Settlement Currency: JPY * Contract Value Factor: 5,000 * Settlement Method: CASH * Price Quotation Method: IDX (Index) * Valuation Method: FUT (Futures-Style) * Settlement Price Decimal Locator: 0 To include positions in these products in portfolios to be margined using PC-SPAN, as always, you must either manually add records to the Organization Master file or download the updated master file at ftp.cme.com/pub/span/util/orgmast.exe. The corresponding master files for the old DOS-based PC-SPAN are ftp.cme.com/pub/span/util/comast11.exe (version 3.11 and higher) and ftp.cme.com/pub/span/util/comast.exe
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