TIFFE Euroyen Contracts Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier on August 31

Trading hours for Euroyen contracts will start from 8:45a.m. on August 31, 1999 responding to MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry)'s announcement that the Preliminary Report on Indices of Industrial Production, Producer's Shipments and Producer's Inventory (Jul. 99) will be released at 8:50a.m. on this day.