CME Announces Labor Day Holiday Hours

Aug 9, 2004

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CME Announces Labor Day Holiday HoursCHICAGO, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) today announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the upcoming Labor Day holiday (all times are Central time):

    Friday, Sept. 3   Commodities futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest
                      rates and the GSCI(R) products will close at 12:00 noon,
                      and commodity options will close at 12:02 p.m. Equity
                      products will have normal trading hours and will close
                      at their regularly scheduled time of 3:15 p.m.  Equity
                      index, interest rate and FX products traded on GLOBEX(R)
                      during regular trading hours will close at 3:15 p.m.
                      Commodities, weather, and GSCI traded on GLOBEX will
                      close at 12 p.m. noon. Products closing at their regular
                      times on GLOBEX are equity indexes (3:15 p.m.), CPI
                      (2:00 p.m.) and TRAKRS(SM) (3:00 p.m.)

    Sunday, Sept. 5   GLOBEX has a regular trading session opening at its new
                      opening time of 5 p.m. for the trade date of Tuesday,
                      September 7.

    Monday, Sept. 6   Exchange trading floors closed in observance of Labor
                      Day.  GLOBEX trading continues uninterrupted, except for
                      equities which observe a 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. trading
                      break.  GLOBEX trading halts for Interest Rate and
                      Foreign Exchange products at 12:00 noon and resumes also
                      at 5:00 p.m.

    Tuesday, Sept. 7  Regular trading sessions for Exchange trading floors and
                      GLOBEX.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ( http://www.cme.com ) is the largest futures exchange in the United States. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX^® electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moved about $1.6 billion per day in settlement payments in the first half of 2004 and managed $39.1 billion in collateral deposits as of June 30, 2004. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000^® Index.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME, the globe logo and GLOBEX are registered trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Further information about CME and its products is available on the CME Web site at http://www.cme.com .

SOURCE Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Chicago Mercantile Exchange's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.