The Montreal Exchange announced the listing of two new equity option classes, at the opening of trading today.

The new equity option classes are: Niko Resources Ltd., (NKO); and Penn West Energy Trust, (PWT).

The contract specifications for these options are available on the MX’s Web site at www.m-x.ca.

New equity option classes are added periodically to the MX listing based mainly on investors and approved participants’ interest as well as the companies stocks’ liquidity on the market.

MX Web site
http://www.m-x.ca