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CME Announces Veterans Day Holiday Hours

Date 06/11/2007

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, has announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Veterans Day holiday (all times are Central time). This schedule includes CME and CBOT products. FXMarketSpace(TM) will observe its regular schedule for the Veterans Day holiday.

    Friday,          Unless noted below all products close at their regular
    November 9       trading time on the CME and CBOT exchange trading floors
                     as well as CME Globex(R) and e-cbot(R).  The exceptions
                     are:

                     Foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate products traded
                     on CME exchange trading floors will close at 12:00 noon.

                     FX and interest rate products traded on CME Globex will
                     close at 3:15 p.m.

                     Financials* traded on the CBOT exchange trading floors
                     close at 12:00 noon.

                     Financials traded on e-cbot will close at 1:00 p.m.

    Sunday,          Unless noted below all products open at their regular
    November 11      trading time on CME Globex.  The exception is:

                     Financials* on e-cbot remain closed except for mini sized Eurodollars,
                     which will trade normal hours.

    Monday,          Unless noted below all products close at their regular
    November 12      trading time on the CME and CBOT exchange trading floors
                     as well as on CME Globex.  The exceptions are:

                     FX and interest rate products traded on the CME exchange
                     trading floors are closed in observance of Veterans Day.

                     Financials traded on the CBOT exchange trading floors
                     are closed.

                     Financials on e-cbot remain closed on Monday except for mini sized
                     Eurodollars, which will trade until 3:15 p.m.

                     CME Globex regular opening.  e-cbot regular opening.

    Tuesday,         Regular trading sessions for CME Globex, e-cbot and
    November 13      exchange trading floors.

    * Financial contracts are Treasury bonds, Treasury notes, interest rate
      swaps and 30-Day Fed Fund futures and options, binary options on the
      target Fed Funds rate, credit default swap index and mini-sized
      Eurodollar futures.

For more details, CME Regular Trading Hours (RTH) and CME Globex holiday schedules can be viewed at http://www.cme.com/trading/res/te/index.html. CBOT RTH and e-cbot holiday schedules can be viewed at http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1029,00.html.

CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com) is the world's largest and most diverse exchange. Formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."

The Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME Group, Globex and E-mini, are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Further information about CME Group and its products can be found at http://www.cmegroup.com.