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CBOT® To Close Trading Of Financial Products At 1:00 P.M., Chicago Time, Today For Open Outcry And Electronic Marketplaces

Date 13/09/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®) announced that in conjunction with a recommendation from the Bond Market Association, the CBOT® has revised its trading hours for financial products on September 13 as follows:

Open Outcry

  • From 7:20 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. to 7:20 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
a/c/e
  • From 7:20 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. to 7:20 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
All other CBOT® and MidAm open outcry products, excluding stock indices, will open at normal trading times and trade during regular trading hours as announced on September 12. There will be no daytime trading of CBOT® agricultural products or stock index products on the a/c/e system today.

A decision to reopen the CBOT®'s equity markets will be made in coordination with other financial markets, in addition to U.S. regulatory authorities, and will be announced at that time.

For more information on the CBOT®'s markets and products, log onto the exchange web site at www.cbot.com.