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BOVESPA Carniival Holiday Schedule – 2005

Date 19/01/2005

BOVESPA informs that on February 7 and 8 there will be no trading session due to the Carnival Holiday.

On February 9, Wednesday, the trading hours for BOVESPA and SOMA will be:

1) ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEM – MEGA BOLSA, continuous session from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – for all listed companies on the cash market, forward and options markets;

Pre-opening fixing – from 12:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. – input of orders for the calculation of the theoretical opening price;

Closing call - from 5:55 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – in the Electronic Trading System for the all the indexes stocks and stocks traded on the floor cash market.

2) OPEN-OUTCRY SESSION – continuous session from 1:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

3) AFTER-MARKET TRADING SESSION – from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – exclusively through the Electronic Trading System.

4) OPTIONS EXERCISE

Equity Options Exercise – from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Index Options Exercise – from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

5) BOVESPA FIX AND SOMAFIX

Trading post FX0B and FX1L – from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m
Trading post FX0L – will not be opened.

6) SOMA TRADER – continuous session from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.