LIM is Pleased to Announce - OneChicago Exchange Data
Single Stock Futures, Narrow-Based Indices & Diamonds^® Futures

LIM Data Warehouse - December 2002 - LIM now has single stock and Diamonds futures from the new OneChicago electronic exchange. The Narrow-Based Indices will become available as they are activated on the OneChicago exchange.

The OneChicago dataset will be free until the end of the first Quarter, March 31, 2003. After March 31, 2003, the dataset will be optional.

For more information on the Single Stock Futures, see the Security Futures Overview page on the OneChicago website.

The following information shows the structure of the new data in the MIM system.

Single Stock Futures - TopRelation:Futures:Equities:OneChicago

Expected Path for Narrow-Based Indices - TopRelation:Futures:NarrowBasedIndices:OneChicago

Expected Path for Diamond Futures - TopRelation:Futures:ETFunds:OneChicago

The columns supported in the MIM are:

• Close
• High
• Low
• Mid (High+Low/2)
• Open
• OpenInterest (Open Interest)
• TotalOI (Total Open Interest)
• TotalVol (Total Volume)
• Volume
   

For more information, visit the OneChicago website at: www.onechicago.com

New NCEP Weather Data

LIM offers new data from the National Centers for Environmental Protection. We have extended our weather coverage to include the addition of two new NCEP weather data series. The NCEP supplies the core data sets with new daily data and additional history.

• Newweatherhist.xls
  A list of approximately 200 cities providing additional history to existing relations.
• New_ncep_relations_20021002.xls
  New daily data on US cities with history beginning in 2002.

The structure of the new weather data in the MIM system is as follows:

• TopRelation:Other:Geophysical:Geo_N.Amer
   

For additional information on NCEP, please visit: wwwt.ncep.noaa.gov/

New European Electricity Exchange Data

LIM provides the following new data sets from the websites:

• UK - NETA Balancing data
• Spain - OMEL day ahead hourly data
• France - Powernext day ahead hourly data
• Germany - EEX spot and Phelix data
• Netherlands - APX day ahead hourly data

"DIAMONDS®" is a trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. ("Dow Jones") and has been licensed for use for certain purposes by OneChicago, LLC. OneChicago's DIAMONDS futures are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Dow Jones, and Dow Jones makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products.

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