Tokyo Internation Financial Futures Exchange: Trading Starts 15 Minutes Earlier On 13 December 2002

TIFFE announced that trading for all contracts starts at 8:45am(JST) on 13 December 2002, responding to the release of a BOJ's TANKAN report 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.