Tokyo Commodity Exchange Changes Contract Months Of Gold Options

On April 5, 2005, TOCOM received an approval from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to change the contract months of the gold options.

The number of the contract months will be reduced from the current "six" months to "three" months.  For this purpose, no new contract months will be generated on April 27, June 29 and August 30, during the transition period.

Please note that the following contract months will be generated in accordance with the schedule below.

Contract Month	First Trading Day of Contract Month
April 2006	October 28, 2005
June 2006	December 21, 2005
August 2006	February 27, 2006