• #96-23: CME Lists Boneless Beef / Beef Trimmings
• #96-22: CME Lists Dow-Jones Taiwan Stock Index
• #96-21: SIMEX shifts Eurodollar price formats

#96-23: 12/31/96: CME lists Boneless Beef futures and options

CME expects to begin listing shortly futures and options on Boneless Beef, and Boneless Beef Trimmings. PC-SPAN parameters are identical for these two new commodities except for the commodity code and commodity name. They are:

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#96-22: 12/27/96: CME lists Dow-Jones Taiwan Stock Index futures and options

CME will begin trading (on GLOBEX ^® only) futures and options on the Dow-Jones Taiwan Stock Index on January 8, 1997. PC-SPAN's Commodity Master parameters are:

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#96-21: 12/27/96: SIMEX shifts Eurodollar price format

SIMEX shifted its Eurodollar futures and options price formats on January 2, as part of the implementation of half-tick trading in the lead futures month. The PC-SPAN decimal locator for exchange SMX commodity ED changed from 2 to 4, and the cabinet option value changed from 1 to 3. Other parameters are unchanged. PC-SPAN Commodity Master parameters are as follows:

In addition, the cabinet option value should be changed from 100 to 300 for SIMEX's yen-denominated commodities: JB, EY, NK and N3.