CME Fred Arditti Innovation Award Dinner
WHAT: CME Fred Arditti Innovation Award Dinner
WHEN: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:00 p.m. - Reception 7:00 p.m. - Dinner 8:30 p.m. - Award presentation by Craig Donohue, Chief Executive Officer, CME and Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, CME
WHY: To present renowned economist and Noble Prize winner William F. Sharpe with the first CME Fred Arditti Innovation Award. CME's award is named after the exchange's former Chief Economist Fred Arditti, who was instrumental in developing CME's Eurodollar futures contract, the world's most actively traded futures contract. The award honors an individual or group whose innovative ideas, products or services have created significant change to markets, commerce or trade.
WHERE: Ritz-Carlton Hotel 160 East Pearson Street Chicago, IL
TO RSVP: Please contact Pamela Plehn at 312-930-3446
CHICAGO, Jan 14, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ( http://www.cme.com ) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the first publicly traded financial exchange in the U.S. 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 moved approximately $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments in 2004 and managed $44.1 billion in collateral deposits as of Dec. 31, 2004, including $3.2 in deposits for non-CME products. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000® Index.
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