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CME Group Announces Thanksgiving Day Holiday Hours

Date 19/11/2008

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, will close its trading floors on Thursday, November 27, in observance of Thanksgiving Day. On Wednesday, November 26, the trading floors will cease trading at noon for Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates only. On Friday, November 28, Commodities, GSCI, Weather, Real Estate and Metals Products close at noon (CME commodity options only close at 12:02 p.m.), while Equity Products close at 12:15 p.m.

For more holiday trading schedule details for CME Group open outcry and electronic trading on CME Globex®, please see http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/holiday-calendar/index.html.