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CME Announces Presidents' Day Holiday Trading Hours

Date 01/02/2006

CME has announced the following trading schedule for the Presidents’ Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Friday, Feb. 17

Interest rates, foreign exchange, commodity, weather, fertilizer, ethanol and GSCI products traded on Exchange trading floors close at 12:00 noon. (Commodity options close at 12:02 p.m.)  Equity index products close at their regularly scheduled times (3:15 p.m.)

Products traded on CME® Globex® during Regular Trading Hours (RTH) close as follows: commodities, weather and GSCI close at 12:00 noon; foreign exchange and interest rates close at 3:15 p.m.  Products closing at their regular times are equity indexes (3:15 p.m.), ETFs (3:15 p.m.), CPI & Eurozone HICP (3:15 p.m.), and TRAKRSSM (3:00 p.m.)

 

Sunday, Feb. 19

CME Globex opens at 5:00 p.m., its regular time, (for trade date of Feb. 21).

 

Monday, Feb. 20

Exchange trading floors are closed in observance of Presidents’ Day.

CME Globex halts equity trading at 10:30 a.m. and resumes trading at 5:00 p.m. (for trade date of Feb. 21). CME Globex trading halts for Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange products at 12:00 noon and resumes also at 5:00 p.m. (for trade date of Feb. 21)

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the world’s largest and most diverse financial exchange.  As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors.  CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas:  interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities.  The exchange moved about $1.4 billion per day in settlement payments in 2005 and managed $45.6 billion in collateral deposits at December 30, 2005, including $3.2 billion in deposits for non-CME products.  CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000® Index.