Clearing  House Advisory Notices
To Clearing Member Firms, Chief Financial Officers, and Back Office Managers
From Clearing House Department
Subject HOLIDAY SCHEDULE - CHRISTMAS EVE - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2004
Notice Date 2004-12-20
Notice Number 04-240
Effective Date  

Thursday, December 23, 2004

CME Floor Trading
Commodity futures, foreign exchange, interest rate and GSCI products will close at 12:00 noon.  Commodity options will close at 12:02 p.m.  Equity index products traded on the trading floor only will observe normal trading hours on Thursday, December 23, 2004. 

GLOBEX
Foreign exchange and interest rates traded on GLOBEX during Regular Trading Hours (RTH) will close at 3:15 p.m. (same as equity indexes).  Commodities, GSCI and Weather products traded on GLOBEX during RTH will close at 12:00 noon.  There will be no overnight trading on GLOBEX Thursday night.

CBOT Floor Trading
Agricultural and Financial products will close at 12:00 noon.  Mini-sized Ag products will close at 12:30 p.m.  Equity products will have normal trading hours.

ecbot
Dow-AIG products will close at 12:00 noon.  Financial and Metals products at 12:30 p.m. There will be no overnight trading on e-cbot on Thursday night.

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