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CME Christmas And New Year’s Holiday Schedules

Date 09/12/2004

CME has announced the following trading schedule for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays (all times are Central time):

Thursday, Dec. 23

Commodity futures, foreign exchange, interest rate and GSCI® products will close at 12:00 noon Central Time (CT), and commodity options will close at 12:02 p.m. CT. Equity products only traded on the trading floors will have normal trading hours on this day. Foreign exchange, equity indexes and interest rate products traded on CME Globex® will close at 3:15 p.m. CT.

Friday, Dec. 24

Exchange trading floors and CME Globex closed for Christmas holiday.

Sunday, Dec. 26

CME Globex Regular Open at 5:00 p.m. CT

Monday, Dec. 27

CME observes a regular trading day on Monday, December 27, 2004.

Thursday, Dec. 30

Only commodity futures and the GSCI products close early at 12:00 noon CT. Commodity options close early at 12:02 p.m. CT. Foreign exchange, interest rate and equity products close at regular times both on the trading floors and CME Globex.

Friday, Dec. 31

Only commodity and GSCI products traded on the trading floors will be closed. Foreign exchange and interest rate products will close early at 12:00 noon CT on the trading floor. Equity products will observe regular trading hours. Foreign exchange and interest rate products traded on CME Globex will close early at 3:15 p.m., same as equity products.

Sunday, Jan. 2

CME Globex regular open at 5:00 p.m. CT

Monday, Jan. 3

CME observes a regular trading day on Monday, January 3, 2005.

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