CBOT'S April Volume at 19,570,395 Contracts

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's leading futures and options exchange, announced today trading volume of 19,570,395 contracts for April 1999. April Highlights Included: CBOT volume reached more than one million contracts per day on 6 of the 22 trading days in April; CBOT average daily volume: 889,563 contracts; Project A® monthly total: 855,837; Project A average daily volume: 38,902 contracts CBOT Seat Sales: CBOT Full membership last traded at $580,000 as of April 28, 1999; CBOT Associate membership last traded at $220,000 as of April 28, 1999; CBOT Commodity options membership interest last traded at $61,000 as of May 4, 1999; CBOT IDEM membership interest last traded at $28,000 as of April 20, 1999 Financial Futures and Options: U.S. Treasury bond futures trade was 7,196,877 contracts for April 1999; Ten-Year Treasury note futures trade was 2,145,296 for April 1999; Five-Year Treasury note futures trade was 1,115,042 for April 1999 Stock Index Futures and Options: CBOT® DJIASM futures trade was 365,509 for April 1999 and up 15.7% YTD at 1,253,746 Agricultural Futures and Options: Wheat futures trade was 559,211 for April 1999 and up 27.2% YTD at 2,293,558; Corn futures trade was 1,420,602 for April 1999; Soybean futures trade was 963,515 for April 1999