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CBOE Interest Rate Products To Close at2:00 p.m. Central Time Beginning Thursday, Sept. 20

Date 19/09/2001

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that interest rate/treasury products traded at CBOE will return to normal trading hours, closing at 2:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT), beginning Thursday, September 20.

Interest rate/treasury products will close at 1:00 p.m. CDT today, September 19, 2001. All other CBOE products are trading according to normal trading hours.

CBOE, the world's largest options marketplace and the creator of listed options, is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For additional information about the CBOE and its products, access the CBOE site on the World Wide Web at http://www.cboe.com.