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FOi's daily roundup of news in brief, 16 February 2010


Brent crude trading on Forts reached $74m
Trading in Brent crude oil futures on the futures and options segment of the Russian Stock Exchange achieved a record volume on February 12, the exchange has announced. A total of 100,527 contracts were traded, with a notional value of RUB2.2bn ($73.5m).
This exceeded the previous record, set on February 5, when the trading volume reached 89,876.

Tocom extends trading hours to allow more New York trading The Tokyo Commodity Exchange’s trading hours will be extended to give arbitrage opportunities and to allow more trading to take place during the trading day in New York.The exchange’s night session will finish at 4.30am, instead of 11pm, from September 21, 2010. This coincides with the closing...

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