Effective Tuesday, July 18, 2006, the new CME Economic Derivatives product, Core Consumer Price Index

(CPI), will be directly available to CME Globex users via CME iLink for the Wednesday, July 19, 2006

auction. With this launch, CME Globex customers will be able to trade this new CME Economic Derivatives

product on the CME Globex platform via the CME iLink interface in addition to theWeb interfaces.

More information on this product launch is available online.

For more information, please contact:

CME Clearing House                  312.207.2525

Thank you.