CBOT Renews Contract With Dow Jones To Trade Dow Jones Complex

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced today it has renewed its contract with Dow^SMJones & Company enabling the CBOT® to continue the trading of U.S. dollar denominated futures and futures-options contracts based on the Dow^SMJones related products at the exchange until the end of 2007. The complex includes futures and futures-options on the DowSMJones Industrial Average^SM, the most recognized stock index in the world, as well as the Dow^SMJones Transportation Average^SM, the Dow^SMJones Utility Average^SM, Dow^SMJones Composite Average^SM and the Dow^SMJones - AIG Commodity Index^SM.

CBOT® Chairman Nicholas J. Neubauer said, "Since the CBOT® won the right to trade futures and options on the Dow^SMJones indices in the U.S. in 1997, the exchange has worked aggressively to ensure the continued liquidity and growth of the complex. We also launched the mini-sized Dow^SMcontract, as well as futures on the Dow^SMJones-AIG Commodity Index^SM. We incorporated state-of-art-technology in the Dow^SMtrading pit and on our electronic trading system for quick and accurate information to our customers. We look forward to working with Dow^SMJones & Company to further enhance the complex and provide additional trading opportunities for all types of investors."

Dow^SMJones & Company Chairman and CEO Peter R. Kann said, "The CBOT® took the lead introducing futures and options based on the most recognized index in the world, the Dow^SMJones Industrial Average. Over the past four years, global volume in derivatives based on all Dow^SMJones indexes has increased substantially. We look forward to this trend continuing as exchanges join the CBOT® in offering Dow^SMJones index-based products that are useful to investors worldwide."

Large and small investors have been taking advantage of the CBOT®'s DJIA^SM contract as a way to manage their risk over the past years, especially during times of economic turmoil.

Through the use of the CBOT®'s DJIA^SM futures contract, investors can

• protect and diversify their portfolios against adverse changes in the stock market
• establish a price level today for a portfolio of stocks they plan to purchase or sell in the future
• participate in the broad market by taking a position on the performance of the DowSMJones Industrial Average.
• participate in arbitrage opportunities

Since its inception on October 6, 1997, the DowSMfutures contract has traded 16,693,451 million contracts. In 2001, it traded a total of 4,901,949 million contracts, nearly 30% increase from the previous year.

For more information on the DJIASM futures and futures options contracts and the CBOT® Index Complex, please visit www.cbot.com.