News Release
Update on TSX Quantum™ Revolution
APRIL 1, 2008 (TORONTO) – The TSX Quantum Revolution continues, bringing us one step closer to a new era in trading on Toronto Stock Exchange. Twentyfour additional symbols will be added to begin trading on TSX Quantum on Monday, April 14th 2008. These symbols include:
| Company Name | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Suncor Energy Inc. | SU |
| Horizons Betapro S&P/TSX Global Gld Bull | HGU |
| Teck Cominco Ltd., Cl. B SV | TCK.B |
| Teck Cominco Ltd., Cl. A MV | TCK.A |
| Talisman Energy | TLM |
| Pan American J | PAA |
| Vecima Networks Inc. | VCM |
| Horizons Betapro S&P/TSX60 Bear Plus ETF | HXD |
| Canadian National Railway Co. | CNR |
| Potash Corp | POT |
| Enerplus Resources Fund | ERF.UN |
| Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. | GNA |
| Goldcorp Inc Wts | G.WT.G |
| Nortel Networks | NT |
| Canadian Oilsands Trust | COS.UN |
| Fording Inc | FDG.UN |
| Goldcorp | G |
| Silver Standard Res Inc. | SSO |
| Finning Intl | FTT |
| Petro-Canada | PCA |
| Agrium Inc | AGU |
| Cdn Natural Res | CNQ |
| IShares Cdn S&P/TSX Global Gold Indx Fnd | XGD |
| Nova Chemicals CorpX | NCX |
They will join 13 other issues already trading on the TSX Quantum platform. We have been continuously monitoring and evaluating Quantum performance throughout the rollout and there are a number of interesting trends emerging from the trading patterns and performance numbers.
With the current list of issues, a median of 6 millisecond response time has been achieved consistently, as compared to our existing platform at a median of approximately 20 millisecond response time. Response time measures the order’s roundtrip on our infrastructure – from gateway to trading platform and back. We expect further decreases in latency upon implementation of the new Quantum gateway, which is scheduled for Q2/Q3 of 2009.
Since the beginning of the rollout, TSX Quantum has aimed to deliver single digit millisecond latency, greatly expanded market capacity, significantly reduced total cost of ownership while at the same time maintaining world-leading reliability and availability.
The current trading engine has a capacity of 47 million orders per day with a full load of issues from Toronto Stock Exchange. Market capacity tests have proven TSX Quantum capacity to this threshold, with economically viable scalability to one billion orders per day.
Rik Parkhill, Interim Co-CEO, TSX Group Inc., said. "TSX Quantum is doing better than we expected it would do. As we continue to migrate symbols to the new platform, we are seeing the early benefits of this changeover and as the introduction of the new technology continues, we expect additional improvements. We are quickly moving to realizing our overall goals of significant enhancement in performance and capacity across the entire market."
Thomas Kalafatis, Vice President, Sales and Product Development for TSX Markets added "TSX Quantum will redefine how TSX leverages technology to serve all of its clients. Not only are we seeing performance improvements, but the scalability of this technology allows us to launch a streamlined parallel order book, TSX InfinityTM – offering participants more choice and more efficient access to the capital markets."
About TSX Group Inc. (TSX-X)
TSX Group operates Canada's two national stock exchanges, Toronto Stock Exchange serving the senior equity market and TSX Venture Exchange serving the public venture equity market, Natural Gas Exchange (NGX), a leading North American exchange for the trading and clearing of natural gas and electricity contracts and Shorcan Brokers Limited, the country's first fixed income interdealer broker. TSX Group also owns The Equicom Group Inc., a leading provider of investor relations and related corporate communication services in Canada. TSX Group is headquartered in Toronto and maintains offices in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
Steve Kee, Director, Corporate Communications, TSX Group Inc., Toronto Office, (416) 947-4682, Toll Free 1-888-873-8392, Cellular (416) 358-3714, Vancouver Office (604) 602-6902, Calgary Office (403) 218-2892, steve.kee@tsx.com.