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CBOT/MidAm Christmas And New Year's Day Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 08/12/2000

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) and the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange (MidAm) have established the following Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday trading schedules:

Friday, December 22

CBOT® Financial, Agricultural, Metals, and Insurance contracts will close at 12:00 noon. Stock Index contracts will close at 3:15 p.m. a/c/e trading will close at normal times.

Trading will close at 12:15 p.m. in the following MidAm contracts: Live Cattle; Lean Hogs; Australian Dollar; British Pound; Canadian Dollar; Deutsche Mark; Euro; Japanese Yen; Swiss Franc; Eurodollar; and U.S. Treasury Bill

Trading will close at 12:30 p.m. in the following MidAm contracts: Grains/Soybeans; Soybean Meal; Soybean Oil; Options on Corn Futures; Options on Wheat Futures; Options on Soybean Futures; Options on Soybean Oil Futures

Trading will close at 12:50 p.m. in the following MidAm contracts: U.S. Treasury Bond; U.S. Treasury Bond Option; 5- and 10-Year U.S. Treasury Notes.

Trading will close at 11:20 a.m. in the following MidAm contracts New York Silver; New York Gold; Options on NY Gold Futures; and Platinum.

Sunday, December 24

a/c/e trading will be closed.

Monday, December 25

CBOT®/MidAm open outcry and a/c/e trading will be closed.

Tuesday, December 26

CBOT® open outcry trading will observe normal trading schedules. No morning trading for agricultural contracts. Financial contracts trading on the a/c/e system from 6:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Stock Index and metal contracts will trade from 6:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. a/c/e will observe its normal evening schedule.

Friday, December 29

CBOT® same as December 22 trading schedule.

The following MidAm contracts will close at 12:00 p.m.: U.S. Treasury Bonds; U.S. Treasury Bond options; 5- and 10-Year U.S. Treasury Notes. All other MidAm contracts will observe December 22 trading schedule.

Sunday, December 31

CBOT®/Midam same as December 24 trading schedule.

Monday, January 1, 2001

CBOT®/MidAm open outcry trading will be closed. a/c/e trading will reopen at normal evening times.