TFX announced the temporary change of trading hours for Interest Rate etc. Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange Forex Margin Contracts) on 11 August 2006, responding to the release of a GDP figure at 8:50am.
Opening on that day- Pre-open 8:30am - 8:45am (Normal days 8:45am - 9:00am)
- Open of morning session 8:45am (Normal days 9:00am)
Other trading hours are the same as usual.
Note1:The pre-open period and the morning session start 15 minutes earlier respectively on a day on which "important economic indices" are released.
(Important economic indices = Gross Domestic Product (preliminary), Consumer Price Index, Industrial Production Index (preliminary), Tankan survey)
Note2:
The trading hours of the evening session are temporarily extended until 20:00 if any announcement that may have a significant impact on the financial markets such as the announcement of monetary policy meeting decisions of BOJ is not released by 17:00, though it is scheduled to be released.