OneChicago Reports Record Volume In March

OneChicago, LLC yesterday announced that 375,463 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in March, a 372% increase over March 2003 volume and a monthly volume record for the Exchange. Open interest reached a record 297,282 in March. Each single stock future contract is equivalent to 100 shares of the underlying stock or exchange-traded fund.

Average daily volume in March was 16,324 contracts, also a record.

The top five security futures products by volume in March were:

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY1C)
• Nokia Corp. ADR (NOK1C)
• McDonald's Corp. (MCD1C)
• Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ1C)
• Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM1C)

The Exchange has a total of 109 products: 94 single stock futures, including futures on the DIAMONDS Trust, and 15 futures on the Dow Jones MicroSector Indexes^SM.

OneChicago is a joint venture of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Incorporated® (CBOE®), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT®). All products are electronically traded on the CBOEdirect® match engine and accessible through the CBOEdirect and GLOBEX® platforms. All security futures can be traded out of either a securities or a futures account.

For more information about OneChicago and its products, please access the OneChicago Web site at www.OneChicago.com.

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