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CME Announces Labor Day Holiday Hours

Date 28/08/2006

CHICAGO, August 28, 2006 – CME has announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Labor Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Friday,
September 1

 

Commodity futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate, housing options, GSCI® and weather option products traded on Exchange trading floors close at 12:00 noon (commodity options close at 12:02 p.m.).  Equity index products traded on the trading floor close at their regularly scheduled time of 3:15 p.m. 

Equity index, interest rate and FX products traded on CME® Globex® during regular trading hours will close at 3:15 p.m.  Commodities, weather, GSCI®, fertilizer and ethanol traded on CME Globex will close at 12:00 noon.    

Products closing at their regular times on CME Globex are equity index (3:15 p.m.), CPI (2:00 p.m.), Eurozone HICP (10:00 a.m.), TRAKRS®

(3:00 p.m.), ETFs (3:15 p.m.), housing (2:00 p.m.) and NYMEX energy (4:15 p.m.).

Sunday,  September 3

CME Globex Regular Open excluding commodities, weather, GSCI, ethanol, TRAKRS and ETFs for a trade date of Tuesday, September 5, 2006.

Monday, September 4

Exchange trading floors closed in observance of Labor Day.  CME Globex trading continues uninterrupted, except for equity index products, which observe a 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. trading break, and interest rate and FX products, which observe a 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. trading break.  NYMEX energy will observe a 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. trading break.  CME Globex-traded commodities, weather, GSCI, ethanol, TRAKRS and ETFs do not open for trading.

Tuesday,
September 5

Regular trading sessions for CME Globex and Exchange trading floors.

For more details, CME Regular Trading Hours (RTH) and CME Globex holiday schedules can be viewed at  http://www.cme.com/trading/res/cch/holiday_calendar3513.html.