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Carnival Holiday Schedule - Trading session At BOVESPA To Start At 01.00 p.m. On March 1

Date 17/02/2006

Due to Carnival Holiday on February 27 and 28, the trading session at BOVESPA will start on March 1 (Wednesday) at 01.00 p.m., as follows:

Mega Bolsa - Electronic Trading System - continuous session from 1.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
- Pre-opening fixing: from 12.45 p.m. to 1.00 p.m.
- Closing call: from 5.55 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Options Exercise
- Stock Options Exercise: from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Index Options Exercise: from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

After-Market trading session - from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

BovespaFix and SomaFix - from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.