CME Group Announces Additional Agriculture, Ethanol Electronic Trading Hours
June 05 2009 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's
largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, announced today that
electronic trading hours for the CBOT grains, oilseeds and ethanol
contracts will be expanded in the morning by one hour and fifteen
minutes, until 7:15 a.m., beginning July 1. The new electronic
trading hours will run from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 a.m. Chicago time
Sunday through Friday for futures and options on futures for full
and mini-size where offered corn, wheat, soybeans, soymeal, soyoil,
rice, oats and ethanol contracts. Daytime electronic and open
outcry hours will remain from 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. weekdays. CME
Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world's largest and most
diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT
and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers
around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings
buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading
platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. By acting
as the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, CME
Clearing virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk. CME
Clearing also offers financial safeguards to help mitigate systemic
risk, providing the security and confidence market participants
need to operate, invest and grow. CME Group offers the widest range
of benchmark products available across all major asset classes,
including futures and options based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities,
metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and
real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."
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