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CBOT: Trading Hour Notice

Date 15/08/2003

Financial futures and options markets at the Chicago Board of Trade have been open for business throughout the night. All CBOT markets will open at their regularly scheduled time after extensive communication and coordination with the Bond Market Association, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The CBOT remains in constant communication with all of the above and will provide further information as it becomes available.