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CBOT Holdings Enters FTSE/Mondo Visione Exchanges Index

Date 24/04/2006

CBOT Holdings Class A became eligible for inclusion to the FTSE/MV Exchange Index from Monday 24th April 2006 following the expiry of the lock-up on its Class A-1 shares.

The stock was added to the index based on a shares in issue figure of 52,816,929 and an investability weighting of 40%.

CBOT Holdings became the eighteenth member of the FTSE/MV Exchanges Index.

The FTSE/MV Exchanges Index is a joint venture between FTSE Group, the global index group, and Mondo Visione, publisher of the Handbook of World Stock, Derivative and Commodity Exchanges. It is the first index in the world to focus on listed exchanges and other trading venues. It enables international investors to track individual stocks and the sector as a whole. It helps the management of listed exchanges to compare their performance. And it focuses the attention of the market on this important new sector.