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The International Securities Exchange (NYSE:ISE) said
that it will list options on sector indexes as described below. Timber
Hill LLC will be the Primary Market Maker for these sector index
options which will trade in bin 7.
Effective Monday, June 6, 2005, ISE will list options on the
following:
-- ISE Semiconductors (BYT) will trade on a March expiration
cycle with exercise and position limits of 24,000. The ISE
Semiconductors Index includes manufacturers of semiconductors
and related equipment. This index is a modified market
capitalization weighted index.
Effective Tuesday, June 7, 2005, ISE will list options on the
following:
-- ISE-CCM Homeland Security (HSX) will trade on a March
expiration cycle with exercise and position limits of 24,000.
The ISE-CCM Homeland Security Index includes companies engaged
in contractual work with the Department of Homeland Security,
law enforcement agencies, or providing products or services
for the following efforts: intelligence and warning; border
and transportation security; domestic counterterrorism;
protection of critical infrastructure; defense against
catastrophic threats; and, emergency preparedness and
response. This index is a modified market capitalization
weighted index. The ISE-CCM Homeland Security Index was
jointly developed by ISE and Cronus Capital Markets, Inc.
(CCM). CCM, an independent and privately owned capital market
research and consulting firm, provides specific research and
support for the Index.
-- ISE Oil and Gas Services (OOG) will trade on a March
expiration cycle with exercise and position limits of 31,500.
The ISE Oil & Gas Services Index includes oil and gas drilling
contractors, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, and
service providers involved in drilling, evaluation and
completion of oil and gas wells. This index is a modified
market capitalization weighted index.
Effective Wednesday, June 8, 2005, ISE will list options on the
following:
-- ISE Gold (HVY) will trade on a March expiration cycle with
exercise and position limits of 24,000. The ISE Gold Index
includes companies that own or operate gold mines, or are
involved in the production of gold and related products. This
index is a modified market capitalization weighted index.
-- ISE Homebuilders (RUF) will trade on a March expiration cycle
with exercise and position limits of 24,000. The ISE
Homebuilders Index includes residential construction companies
and prefabricated house manufacturers. This index is a
modified market capitalization weighted index.
"ISE is committed to modernizing the index options market just as
it did in the equity options market. The sector indexes represent the
extension of ISE's index business into proprietary products that we
hope will help investors to better navigate the marketplace," said
Bruce D. Goldberg, ISE's Chief Marketing Officer.
ISE's index methodologies for the sector indexes are rules-based,
making the rules for calculating and maintaining the indexes freely
available to everyone, and thus easily used to test the historic
performance of the indexes.
Additional information about these indexes, including methodology
guides component lists and weightings, performance metrics and
historical data is available on ISE's website, www.iseoptions.com.
ISE Background
The International Securities Exchange, the world's largest equity
options exchange, was founded on the principle that technology fosters
and infuses new efficiencies and operational innovations into
securities trading. After developing an innovative market structure
that integrated auction market principles into an advanced
screen-based trading system, ISE launched the first fully electronic
US options exchange in May 2000. ISE continually enhances its trading
systems to provide investors with the best marketplace to execute
their options orders.
For more information about ISE, its products and its technology,
visit www.iseoptions.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward looking statements." These
statements relate to future events or our future financial
performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements, to be materially different from those
contemplated by the forward looking statements. We undertake no
ongoing obligation, other than that imposed by law, to update these
statements. Factors that could affect our results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements and cause them to materially differ from
those contained in the forward looking statements can be found in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our
registration statement on Form S-1, current reports on Form 8-K and
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as amended.