CBOT® Chairman Charles P. Carey observes the successful launching of the exchange's new electronic trading platform powered by LIFFE CONNECT® and the CME/CBOT Common Clearing Link (CCL) on Sunday, November 23, with the first phase of CBOT futures and options contracts opening for trading as scheduled at 7:01 p.m. (Chicago Time). The first contract traded on the new platform occurred at 7:03 p.m. in the DEC 03 Fed Funds contract.
Contracts that began trading on the new platform Sunday evening are as follows: CBOT DJIASM futures and options; CBOT mini-sized DowSM futures; DJ-AIG Commodity Index; 5-Year and 10-Year Swap futures and options; Fed Fund futures and options; and 10-Year Municipal Note Index futures. All remaining CBOT products including its flagship U.S. Treasury complex will launch on the new platform January 2, 2004.
