World Champion Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard To Ring Opening Bell At The Philadelphia Stock Exchange On Monday, October 1 At 9:30 A.M. - Leonard In Town To Promote Friday Night's Fights In City Of Brotherly Gloves On October 5 At First Union Center

World and Olympic champion boxer Sugar Ray Leonard will ring the opening bell at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange on Monday, October 1, to mark the beginning of a new trading month. Remarks will begin promptly at 9:20 a.m., 10 minutes before trading begins.

Leonard is in town promoting Friday Night Fights in the City of Brotherly Gloves at the First Union Center on Friday, October 5 at 7 p.m.

The appearance of Sugar Ray Leonard marks the tenth bell-ringing ceremony in a yearlong series of famous Philadelphians invited to ring the Exchange's bell on the first day of the month. Mayor John F. Street kicked off the celebrity series when he opened trading in Philadelphia on Jan. 2, 2001.

The media is invited for interviews starting at 9:10 a.m. in the Exchange's lobby. Photography is permitted on the trading floor as well.

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is the first stock exchange in America. The Exchange trades more than 1,041 option classes, 11 sector index options, and more than 2,200 stocks. For more information about the Exchange and its products, visit www.phlx.com.