On Wednesday, June   28, 2006, CME will launch trading in PIMCO CRR TRAKRS futures contracts with a Special Opening Procedure.  Regular GLOBEX trading of these new products will commence Thursday, June 29, 2006.

The details of the Special Opening Procedure were published on May 26, 2006 as part of Special Executive Report S-4454. We are issuing this advisory to highlight these special procedures.  Details on the unique clearing and bookkeeping aspects of TRAKRS contracts were previously published in Clearing House Advisory Notice 02-49 at http://www.cme.com../files/CHAdv02-49-TRAKRS-clearing.pdf.  For other documentation on TRAKRS, please see the TRAKRS page on the CME web site at http://www.cme.com/prd/eq/trakrs3106.html.