CME Announces Labor Day Holiday Hours

CHICAGO, Aug 10, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- CME today announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Labor Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Friday,       Commodity futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate, and
    September 2   GSCI(R) products traded on Exchange trading floors close at
                  12:00 noon. (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)
                  during regular trading hours will close at 3:15 p.m.
                  Commodities, weather, and GSCI(R) traded on CME Globex will
                  close at 12:00 noon. Products closing at their regular times
                  on CME Globex are equity indexes (3:15 p.m.), CPI (2:00
                  p.m.), TRAKRS(R) (3:00 p.m.), X-Funds (3:15 p.m.) and ETFs
                  (3:15 p.m.).

    Sunday,       CME Globex has a regular trading session opening at 5:00
    September 4   p.m. for the trade date of Tuesday, September 6. (Please
                  note that TRAKRS, X-Funds and ETFs do not open for trading.)

    Monday,       Exchange trading floors closed in observance of Labor Day.
    September 5   CME Globex trading continues uninterrupted, except for
                  equity products which observe a 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
                  trading break, and interest rate and foreign exchange
                  products which observe a 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. trading
                  break. CME Globex-traded TRAKRS, X-Funds and ETFs do not
                  open for trading.

    Tuesday,      Regular trading sessions for CME Globex and Exchange trading
    September 6   floors. (Please note that X-Funds do not open for trading
                  until their regular open at 7:20 a.m. on the next day.
                  Similarly, TRAKRS and ETFs do not open for trading until
                  their regular open at 8:30 a.m. on the next day.)

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