CME Announces Independence Day Holiday Hours

Jun 24, 2005

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CHICAGO, June 24, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- CME today announced the following trading schedule in conjunction with the Independence Day holiday (all times are Central time):

Friday, July 1    Commodity futures, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate,
                      and GSCI(R) products traded on Exchange trading floors
                      close at 12 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) during regular trading hours will close at
                      3:15 p.m.  Commodities, weather, 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.), TRAKRSSM (3:00 p.m.),
                      X-Funds (3:15 p.m.) and ETFs (3:15 p.m.).

    Sunday, July 3    CME Globex has a regular trading session opening at
                      5 p.m. for the trade date of Tuesday, July 5.

    Monday, July 4    Exchange trading floors closed in observance of
                      Independence Day.  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 on Monday, July 4.

    Tuesday, July 5   Regular trading sessions for CME Globex and Exchange
                      trading floors.

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 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 about $1.5 billion per day in settlement payments in first quarter 2005 and managed $44.4 billion in collateral deposits as of March 31, 2005, including $4.3 billion in deposits for non-CME products. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CME) (Nasdaq: CME), which is part of the Russell 1000(R) Index.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME, the globe logo and CME Globex are registered trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. E-mini is a trademark of CME. CLEARING 21 is a registered trademark of CME and New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. S&P, S&P 500, NASDAQ-100, Nikkei 225, Russell 1000, Russell 2000, TRAKRS, Total Return Asset Contracts and other trade names, service marks, trademarks and registered trademarks that are not proprietary to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. are the property of their respective owners, and are used herein under license. Further information about CME and its products is available on the CME Web site at http://www.cme.com .

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SOURCE Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

Media: Anita S. Liskey, +1-312-466-4613, or Allan L. Schoenberg, +1-312-930-8189,
news@cme.com , or Investor: John Peschier, +1-312-930-8491, all of Chicago Mercantil
Exchange Inc.

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