CBOE Names DPMs to Trade 29 Newly Listed Options

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that it has assigned the Designated Primary Market Makers (DPMs) to trade 29 stock options that will begin trading on Wednesday, September 1 at CBOE. The DPMs for the newly listed options are as follows: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ ticker symbol MSFT; CBOE ticker symbol MSQ) - DPM: Susquehanna Investment Group; Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol CPQ) - DPM: Heartland TFM; Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ ticker symbol SUNW; CBOE ticker symbol SUQ) - DPM: Apollo Partners, LP; 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ ticker symbol COMS; CBOE ticker symbol THQ) - DPM: G-Bar Ltd. Partnership; Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ ticker symbol AMAT; CBOE ticker symbol ANQ) - DPM: Big Blue LLC; Home Depot, Inc. (The) (NYSE and CBOE ticker HD) - DPM: Beartooth Trading; Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol AMD) - DPM: KFT DPM; Time Warner Inc. (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol TWX) - DPM: Samuelson Trading Corp.; Tellabs, Inc. (NASDAQ ticker symbol TLAB; CBOE ticker symbol TEQ) - DPM: Option Funding Group; Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol SGP) - DPM: Lacerta DPM, LLC; Fannie Mae (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol FNM) - DPM: Letco; Abbott Laboratories (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol ABT) - DPM: TFM Investment Group; McKessonHBOC Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol MCK) - DPM: Felt Trading; J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol JPM) - DPM: Spear, Leeds & Kellogg; Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol RAD) - DPM; O.T.A. Limited Partnership; ALZA Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol AZA) - DPM: TFM Investment Group; R&B Falcon Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol FLC) - DPM: Brown Trading Group, LLC; Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol NEM) - DPM: Option Resource Group; First Union Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol FTU) - DPM: RMB Trading Inc.; IDT Corporation (NASDAQ ticker symbol IDTC; CBOE ticker symbol IQJ) - DPM: Tower Trading, L.P.; NIKE, Inc. (Class B) (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol NKE) - DPM: BE Partners; Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol ADI) - DPM: Scorpius; Newbridge Networks Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol NN) - DPM: Susquehanna Investment Group; Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ ticker symbol CATP; CBOE ticker symbol TQP) - DPM: Premier Capital; General Instrument Corp. (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol GIC) - DPM: Peak6 Capital Management, LLC; Comcast Corporation (Special Class A) (NASDAQ ticker symbol CMCSK; CBOE ticker symbol CQK) - DPM: Eclipse J.V.; Sprint Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol FON) - DPM: Callusa DPM; Data General Corporation (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol DGN) - DPM: Johnson Trading J.V.; Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE and CBOE ticker symbol BHI) - DPM: Platinum Trading, LLC. 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.