CME Announces Memorial Day Holiday Hours

CME today announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Memorial Day holiday (all times are Central time):

  Friday, May 26    Commodity futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate,
                    and GSCI® products and weather options traded on
                    Exchange trading floors close at 12:00 p.m. (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® will close at
                    3:15 p.m.  Commodities, weather, fertilizer, ethanol and
                    GSCI® traded on CME Globex will close at 12 noon.
                    Products closing at their regular times on CME Globex
                    are equity indexes (3:15 p.m.), CPI (2:00 p.m.),
                    Eurozone HICP (10:00 a.m.) TRAKRS(SM) (3:00 p.m.), ETFs
                    (3:15 p.m.) and housing (2:00 p.m.).

  Sunday, May 28    CME Globex has a regular trading session opening at
                    5:00 p.m. for the trade date of Tuesday, May 30.

  Monday, May 29    Exchange trading floors closed in observance of Memorial
                    Day.  CME Globex trading continues for equity products
                    except for a 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. trading break, and
                    for interest rate and foreign exchange products except
                    for a 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. trading break.  CME Globex
                    traded TRAKRS and ETFs do not open on Monday, May 29.

  Tuesday, May 30   Regular trading sessions for CME Globex and Exchange
                    trading floors.