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Philadelphia Stock Exchange To Begin Trading CONOCO, INC.

Date 05/10/2001

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) announced today that it will begin trading put and call options on Conoco Inc. upon the opening of business on Monday, October 8.

Conoco Inc. (option/stock symbol: COC) was allocated to Knight Financial Products. The firm will offer automatic executions up to 50 contracts for all orders routed through AUTOM, the PHLX's automatic execution system for equity and sectors index options. Conoco Inc, will trade on the January expiration cycle. Position and exercise limits have been set at 150,000 contracts. Initial strike prices will be 20, 22.5, 25, 30 and 35.