Nymex Moves Termination Dates For e-miNY energy futures<SUP>sm</SUP> Contracts Back A Day

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., announced today that its e-miNY^sm crude oil and e-miNY^sm natural gas futures contracts will terminate one day before the standard-sized light, sweet crude oil and natural gas futures contracts beginning with the August contract.

Currently, e-miNY^smtrading terminates on the same day as the standard-sized contracts.sm termination schedule is as follows:

Contract Month	e-miNY^sm Crude Oil	e-miNY^sm Natural Gas
August 2003	July 21, 2003	July 28, 2003
September	August 19	August 26
October	September 19	September 25
November	October 20	October 28
December	November 19	November 24
January 2004	December 18	December 24
February	January 16, 2004	January 27, 2004
March	February 19	February 24
April	March 19	March 26
May	April 19	April 27
June	May 19	May 25
July	June 21	June 25
August	July 19	July 27
September	August 19	August 26
October	September 20	September 27
November	October 19	October 26
December	November 18	November 23

The e-miNY energy futures^sm are fractional futures contracts sized at 40% of the standard futures contracts, the equivalent of 400 barrels of crude oil and 4,000 million British thermal units of natural gas. The contracts trade on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's GLOBEX® electronic trading platform and clear through the New York Mercantile Exchange clearinghouse. They are based on financial settlement and designed to make it easier for individual investors to participate in these markets.