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Eurex: Exchange Holidays For Year End 2004

Date 29/11/2004

Following the decision of the Management Boards of Eurex Deutschland and Eurex Zürich in their session on November 16, 2004 the Eurex Exchanges will remain closed on December 24, 2004 and December 31, 2004.

No Eurex products will be tradable on those days. They are also non-value dates for euro and Swiss Francs at Eurex.

Thus, no clearing will take place on those days and no Eurex settlement via CSD Clearstream Banking Frankfurt (CBF) and SIS SegaInterSettle AG, Zürich; nor can payments in euro or CHF via the central banks be executed.