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Just following its one year anniversary, security futures exchange NQLX said it was suspending trade in 29 listed single stock futures. Many will be delisted as soon as the December expiration; others with outstanding open interest will be suspended after January, February and March expirations.

NQLX President and CEO Bob Fitzsimmons doesn't call the move a retreat but a refocus.

"There are certain contracts just sitting there taking up bandwidth.... We wanted to get our firms focused on more successful contracts," Fitzsimmons says.

The move, which was made after consulting market-making and order providing firms, reduces the number of contracts listed on NQLX to 66 from 95. Fitzsimmons says the move should help its market-makers to concentrate on making tighter more liquid markets in remaining contracts. Suspended futures contracts include some rather well-known companies: McDonalds Corp., Amazon, Boeing, Time Warner, Eli Lilly and Proctor and Gamble were cut.

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