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CME Stock Index Products Set Seventh Consecutive Open Interest Records

Date 21/06/2002

Open interest in stock index products traded on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) rose to record levels for the seventh consecutive session on June 19, with 1,703,733 positions.

Other records set yesterday in CME stock index products include:

Contract Open Interest Record Volume Record Previous Record
S&P 500 futures 661,332   650,802 positions on June 18
E-Mini<Sup>TM</SUP> 500 futures 314,277   311,294 positions on June 17
Nasdaq-100 futures 93,390   90,647 positions on June 18
E-mini Russell 2000 futures 10,559 5.041 10,361 positions on June 13
E-mini S&P MidCap 400 futures 3,833   3,319 positions on June 14

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and virtually around the clock on its GLOBEX electronic trading platform. CME offers futures contracts and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves about $1.6 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.4 billion in collateral deposits. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.