TIFFE:Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 29 January 2003

TIFFE announced that trading for all contracts starts at 8:45am(JST) on 29 January 2003, responding to the release of a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production at 8:50am.

Normal trading starts at 9:00am on TIFFE, but trading starts 15 minutes earlier at 8:45am on the announcement days of BOJ's TANKAN report, BOJ's Outlook and Risk Assessment of the Economy and Prices, a preliminary report on Indices of Industrial Production and a GDP figure.