Tokyo Financial Exchange Extension Of Trading Hours

Date 27/12/2006

TFX announced that trading hours of all Interest Rate Financial Futures Contracts (except for Exchange FX Margin Contracts) will be extended for two hours.

Trading hours
present trading hours	09:00 - 18:00 (JST)
extended trading hours	09:00 - 20:00 (JST)

Effective date
February 5 , 2007

Note

Official Closing Prices will be published after 20:00
Procedures of clearing for a trading day will be not changed(the settlement prices will be published after 15:30 as has been in the past.).