CME Announces Veterans Day Holiday Trading Schedule

CHICAGO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME has announced the following trading schedule for the Veterans Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Wednesday, Nov. 10 
CME will not observe an early 12:00 noon close for
foreign exchange and interest rates products. 

All exchange products including Foreign Exchange,
Interest Rates, Commodities, Equities and GSCI(R)
will have normal trading hours.

CME Globex(R) regular open at 5:00 p.m. (for trade
date of Nov. 11) for all electronically traded
products.

Thursday, Nov. 11 
Foreign exchange and interest rate products traded
on CME's trading floors are closed.

Commodity, stock index and GSCI products will trade
their regular floor hours.

CME Globex closes at 3:15 p.m. for foreign exchange
and interest rate products; CME Globex closes at
its regular time for stock index, commodity and
GSCI products.

CME Globex resumes trading at its regular time
5:00 p.m. (for trade date of Nov. 12.)

All times are Central time. 

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.

SOURCE Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

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