[Federal Register: April 30, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 83)]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Global Markets Advisory Committee Meeting

    This is to give notice, pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Sec. 10(a), that the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee will
conduct a public meeting on May 14, 1998 in the first floor hearing
room (Room 1000) of the Commission's Washington, D.C. headquarters,
Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581.
The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and last until 5:00 p.m. The agenda
will consist of the following:

Agenda

A. Part 1
    1. Introductory Remarks by Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum,
Chairman, Global Markets Advisory Committee
    2. Report on CFTC Activities of International Interest by
Chairperson Brooksley Born
    3. Discussion of Business Problems Encountered during Asian
Market Volatility
    4. General Discussion of the Impediments to Conducting Business
Abroad
B. Part 2
    5. Discussion Regarding Placement of U.S. Exchanges' Terminals
in Foreign Countries and Foreign Exchanges' Terminals in the U.S.
    6. Other Topics of Concern to Advisory Committee Members

    The Advisory Committee was created by the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission for the purpose of receiving advice and
recommendations on the myriad of complex and novel issues raised by
the ever-increasing globalization of futures markets. The purposes
and objectives of the Global Markets Advisory Committee are more
fully set forth in the Charter of the Advisory Committee.
    The meeting is open to the public. The Chairman of the Advisory
Committee, Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, is empowered to
conduct the meeting in a fashion that will, in her judgment,
facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Any member of the public
who wishes to file a written statement with the Advisory Committee
should mail a copy of the statement to the attention of: The Global
Markets Advisory Commission, Three Lafayette Center, 1155 21st
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20581, before the meeting. Members of
the public who wish to make oral statements should also inform
Commissioner Holum in writing at the foregoing address at least
three business days before the meeting. Reasonable provision will be
made, if time permits, for an oral presentation of no more than five
minutes each in duration.

    Issued by the Commission in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 1998.
Jean A. Webb,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 98-11569 Filed 4-29-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6351-01-M

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