A little ASTN news never hurt anything(BSNS WIRE) The Ashton Technology Group Announces Addition of 50 New Stocks
The Ashton Technology Group Announces Addition of 50 New Stocks to eVWAP
Trading System
Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2001--The Ashton
Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTN) announced today it will add 50
additional stocks for trading on its electronic volume weighted
average price (eVWAP(TM)) trading system, effective Monday, March 26,
2001.
This will increase eVWAP eligibility to 150 issues.
eVWAP is an anonymous, pre-opening matching system to execute
orders at the SEC approved standardized volume weighted average price
(eVWAP Price(TM)). Participants receive confidential, binding match
reports prior the market open, with the eVWAP Price automatically
ascribed to such trades following that day's market close.
Key users of the eVWAP system, which is operated by Ashton as a
facility of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, include institutional
fund managers, and broker dealers.
Fredric Rittereiser, Ashton Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
said, "We are excited about recently rising eVWAP volume and match
rates and see this as an ideal time to expand the list of eligible
issues to accommodate broader use of the system." He added, "The
demand for eVWAP has been piqued by traders who find eVWAP a haven
from their orders being splintered by decimalization -- eVWAP is block
liquidity at one superior price."
The following 150 issues will be eligible for trading on March
26th, with new issues preceeded by (-):
-0-
*T
ABT Abbott Laboratories
AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(-)AES AES Corp.
A Agilent Technologies, Inc.
ALA Alcatel
AA Alcoa Inc.
(-)AGN Allergan, Inc.
AT Alltel Corp.
(-)AEP American Electric Power Co. Inc
AXP American Express Co
(-)AGC American General Corp.
AHP American Home Products Corp.
AIG American International Group, Inc.
(-)AMR AMR Corp.
(-)APC Anadarko Petroleum Corp
ADI Analog Devices Inc.
BUD Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
AOL AOL Time Warner, Inc.
ABI Applera Corp.
T AT&T Corp.
(-)ADP Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
(-)AVP Avon Products, Inc.
(-)BHI Baker Hughes, Inc.
(-)BK Bank of New York
ONE Bank One Corp.
BAC Bank of America Corp.
BAX Baxter International, Inc.
BLS BellSouth Corp.
BA Boeing Co.
BP BP Amoco PLC
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
(-)BNI Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
(-)CPN Calpine Corp.
CCL Carnival Corp.
CD Cendant Corp.
SCH Charles Schwab Corp.
CHV Chevron Corp.
(-)CI CIGNA Corp.
C Citigroup, Inc.
CCU Clear Channel Communications Inc.
KO Coca Cola Co.
CL Colgate Palmolive Co.
CPQ Compaq Computer Corp.
CA Computer Associates
(-)CSC Computer Sciences Corp.
GLW Corning, Inc.
CVS CVS Corp.
(-)DAL Delta Air Lines, Inc.
(-)DUK Duke Energy, Inc.
DOW Dow Chemical Company
DD Dupont (E.I.) De Nemours
(-)EK Eastman Kodak Co.
(-)EPG El Paso Corp.
EDS Electronic Data Systems Corp.
LLY Eli Lilly and Co.
EMC EMC Corp.
(-)EMR Emerson Electric Co.
ENE Enron Corp.
(-)ETR Entergy Corp.
(-)EXC Exelon Corp.
XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation
FNM Fannie Mae
FRE Federal Home Loan Mortage Corp.
(-)FDX FedEx Corporation
(-)FBF FleetBoston Financial Corp.
F Ford Motor Company
GPS Gap, Inc.
GTW Gateway Inc.
DNA Genentech Inc.
(-)GD General Dynamics
GE General Electric Company
GM General Motors Corp
G Gillette Company
(-)GX Global Crossing Ltd.
GS Goldman Sachs
GDT Guidant Corp.
HAL Halliburton Co.
(-)HIG Hartford Financial Svc. Group, Inc.
(-)HCA HCA-The Healthcare Company
(-)HNZ Heinz (H.J.)
HWP Hewlett-Packard Co.
HD Home Depot, Inc.
HON Honeywell International, Inc.
GMH Hughes Electronics (General Motors Corp.)
IBM International Business Machines Corp.
IP International Paper Co.
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JPM JP Morgan Chase & Co., Inc.
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corp.
(-)KR Kroger Co.
(-)LEH Lehman Bros. Hldgs, Inc.
(-)LTD Limited, Inc.
LSI LSI Logic Corp.
LU Lucent Technologies Inc.
(-)MMC Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
(-)MAY May Dept. Stores Co.
MCD McDonalds Corp.
MDT Medtronic, Inc
MRK Merck & Co., Inc.
MER Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.
MET MetLife, Inc.
MU Micron Technology, Inc.
MMM Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
MWD Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
MOT Motorola, Inc.
NOK Nokia Corp.
NT Nortel Networks Corporation
PEP Pepsico Inc.
PFE Pfizer, Inc.
MO Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
PG The Procter & Gamble Co.
(-)PVN Providian Financial Corp.
Q Qwest Communications International, Inc.
(-)RSH RadioShack Corp.
(-)RAL Ralston Purina Group
(-)RTN.B Raytheon Co.
(-)ROK Rockwell International Corp.
RD Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
(-)SLE Sara Lee Corp.
SBC SBC Communications, Inc.
SGP Schering-Plough Corp
SLB Schlumberger Ltd
(-)SFA Scientific Atlanta, Inc.
(-)S Sears, Roebuck & Co.
SLR Solectron Corp
(-)SO Southern Co.
(-)LUV Southwest Airlines Co.
FON Sprint Corp.
PCS Sprint Group
TGT Target Corp.
TMX Telefonos de Mexico, S.A.
TER Teradyne, Inc.
TX Texaco Inc.
TXN Texas Instruments
(-)RIG Transocean Sedco Forex, Inc.
TYC Tyco International Ltd.
(-)USB U.S. Bancorp
(-)UIS Unisys Corp.
UTX United Technologies Corp.
(-)UNH United Health Group, Inc.
VZ Verizon Communications, Inc.
VIA.B Viacom B Shares
V Vivendi Universal, S.A.
VOD Vodafone Group Plc
WMT Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
DIS Walt Disney Co
(-)WM Washington Mutual, Inc.
WFC Wells Fargo & Co.
(-)WY Weyerhaeuser Co.
(-)WMB Williams Cos.: |
