CME Announces Columbus Day Holiday Hours
October 01 2007 - 1:04PM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's
largest and most diverse exchange, has announced the following
trading schedule in conjunction with the Columbus Day holiday (all
times are Central time). Please note: this includes CME and CBOT
products. Friday, October 5 Unless noted below all products close
at their regular trading time on the CME and CBOT exchange trading
floors as well as CME Globex(R) and e-cbot(R). Foreign exchange
(FX) and interest rate products traded on CME exchange trading
floors will close at 12:00 noon. FX and interest rate products
traded on CME Globex will close at 3:15 p.m. Financials* traded on
the CBOT exchange trading floors close at 12:00 noon. Financials
traded on e-cbot will close at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, October 7 e-cbot
remains closed except for mini sized Eurodollars, which will trade
normal hours. CME Globex regular opening. Monday, October 8 FX and
interest rate products traded on the CME exchange trading floors
are closed in observance of Columbus Day. Financials* traded on the
CBOT exchange trading floors are closed. CME Group FX and Interest
Rate products traded on CME Globex close at 4:00 p.m. e-cbot
remains closed on Monday except for mini sized Eurodollars, which
will trade until 3:15 p.m. CME Globex regular opening. e-cbot
regular opening. Tuesday, October 9 Regular trading sessions for
CME Globex, e-cbot and exchange trading floors. * Financial
contracts are Treasury bonds, Treasury notes, interest rate swaps
and 30-Day Fed Fund futures and options, binary options on the
target Fed Funds rate, credit default swap index and mini-sized
Eurodollar futures. For more details, CME Regular Trading Hours
(RTH) and CME Globex holiday schedules can be viewed at
http://www.cme.com/trading/res/te/index.html. CBOT RTH and e-cbot
holiday schedules can be viewed at
http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1029,00.html. CME Group
(http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world's largest and most diverse
exchange. Formed by the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), 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 its
trading floors. 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, agricultural commodities, energy, and alternative
investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol
"CME." The Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME Group,
Globex and E-mini, are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of
Trade of the City of Chicago. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners. Further information about CME Group and
its products can be found at http://www.cmegroup.com/. CME-G
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