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NYBOT Announces July Fourth Holiday Schedule

Date 15/06/2005

The New York Board of Trade® (NYBOT®) announced today the trading schedule for all its markets for the U.S. July Fourth Independence Day holiday:

TRADE DATE: FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Currency Markets NY Evening Session: All products will trade regular hours.

Friday, July 1, 2005

Currency Markets Dublin: All products will trade regular hours.

Currency Markets NY Day Session: All products close 1:00 p.m. EDST.

Reuters CRB (Continuous Commodity Index [CCI]) contract: All products close 1:00 p.m. EDST.

Agriculture and other Index Products: All products will trade regular hours.

TRADE DATE: MONDAY, JULY 4, 2005

Sunday, July 3, 2005

Currency Markets NY Evening Session: Closed.

Monday, July 4, 2005

Currency Markets Dublin Session: Trading for all products is extended to 9:05 a.m. EDST.

Agriculture, NY Currency and Index products: All products are closed.

TRADE DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2005

Monday, July 4, 2005

Currency Markets NY Evening Session: Closed.

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Agriculture, Currency and Index products: All products will trade regular hours.

The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is New York’s original futures exchange, where the world trades food, fiber and financial products. For well over a century, the New York Board of Trade has provided reliability, integrity and security in a global marketplace for cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, pulp and sugar, as well as currency and index futures and options. Information about the New York Board of Trade can be found at www.nybot.com and www.nybotlive.com.