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CME Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 07/01/2004

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has announced the following trading schedule for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Friday, January 16

Commodity, foreign exchange, interest rate 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 GLOBEX® during Regular Trading Hours (RTH) close as follows: commodities 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 and weather (3:15 p.m.) and TRAKRS (3:00 p.m.)

Sunday, January 18

GLOBEX opens at 5:30 p.m., its regular time (for trade date of Jan. 20).

Monday, January 19, Exchange trading floors are closed in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

GLOBEX halts trading at 10:30 a.m. and resumes trading at 5:30 p.m. (for trade date of Jan. 20).

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® electronic trading platform. 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 2003 and managed $37.6 billion in collateral deposits at Dec. 31, 2003, including $1.5 billion for non-CME products. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000® Index.