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CBOT/MidAm Columbus Day Holiday Schedule

Date 25/09/2000

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) and the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange (MidAm) have established the following schedule in observance of the Columbus Day holiday:

Friday, October 6

CBOT® Open Outcry Financial and Catastrophe Insurance contracts will close at 12:00 noon. All other open outcry contracts close at their regular times. Financial, Stock Index and Metals contracts on the a/c/e electronic trading system will close at 4:00 p.m. (regular time).

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

Trading will close at 12:50 p.m. in the following MidAm contracts: U.S. Treasury Bond; U.S. Treasury Bond Options; 5- and 10-Year U.S. Treasury Notes. All other MidAm contracts will observe normal trading schedules.

Sunday, October 8

Overnight a/c/e trading will be closed for Financial contracts only. All other overnight a/c/e/trading (Agricultural, Stock Index, and Metals contracts) will observe normal trading schedules.

Monday, October 9

CBOT® open outcry Financial and Catastrophe Insurance contracts will be closed. Daytime a/c/e Financial contract trading will be closed. All other contracts (Agricultural, Stock Index and Metals) will observe normal open outcry and a/c/e trading schedules.

Trading will be closed in the following MidAm contracts: Australian Dollar; British Pound; Canadian Dollar; Deutsche Mark; Japanese Yen; Swiss Franc; Eurodollar; U.S. Treasury Bill; U.S. Treasury Bond; U.S. Treasury Bond Options; 5- and 10-Year Treasury Notes. All other MidAm contracts will observe normal trading schedules.