CME Announces Memorial Day Holiday Hours
CHICAGO, May 23, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CME today announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Memorial Day holiday (all times are Central time):
Friday, May 26 Commodity futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate, and GSCI(R) products and weather options traded on Exchange trading floors close at 12:00 p.m. (Commodity options close at 12:02 p.m.) Equity index products traded on the trading floor close at their regularly scheduled time of 3:15 p.m. Equity index, interest rate and FX products traded on CME(R) Globex(R) will close at 3:15 p.m. Commodities, weather, fertilizer, ethanol and GSCI(R) traded on CME Globex will close at 12 noon. Products closing at their regular times on CME Globex are equity indexes (3:15 p.m.), CPI (2:00 p.m.), Eurozone HICP (10:00 a.m.) TRAKRS(SM) (3:00 p.m.), ETFs (3:15 p.m.) and housing (2:00 p.m.). Sunday, May 28 CME Globex has a regular trading session opening at 5:00 p.m. for the trade date of Tuesday, May 30. Monday, May 29 Exchange trading floors closed in observance of Memorial Day. CME Globex trading continues for equity products except for a 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. trading break, and for interest rate and foreign exchange products except for a 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. trading break. CME Globex traded TRAKRS and ETFs do not open on Monday, May 29. Tuesday, May 30 Regular trading sessions for CME Globex and Exchange trading floors.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ( http://www.cme.com ) is the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on CME Globex electronic trading platform and on its trading floors. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange managed $47.0 billion in collateral deposits at March 31, 2006, including $3.8 billion in deposits for non-CME products. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000(R) Index.
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