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CME Special Opening Procedure For Euro Currency TRAKRS

Date 08/08/2003

On Thursday August 28, 2003, CME will launch trading in Euro Currency TRAKRS futures contracts with a Special Opening Procedure. Regular GLOBEX trading of these new products will commence Friday August 29, 2003.

The details of the Special Opening Procedure were published on July 23, 2003 as part of Special Executive Report S-3973. We are issuing this advisory at http://www.cme.com/risk_management/secure.cme.com/advisory_notices/shownotice.cfm?NoticeID=0008E935-B3CD-1F32-9A1F80EDBEFB0000

to highlight these special procedures. Details on the unique clearing and bookkeeping aspects of TRAKRS contracts were previously published in Clearing House Advisory Notice 02-49. For the complete text of this advisory and for other documentation on TRAKRS, please see the TRAKRS page on the CME web site at http://www.cme.com/products/index/trakrs.cfm.