Effective Sunday, July 23, 2006 (for trade date Monday, July 24, 2006), NYMEX Brent Financial futures will be available for trading on the CME Globex platform. The Crude Oil-Brent Financial, a new intercommodity spread, will also be available.

Brent Financial futures and spreads will launch with implied functionality.

More information on this NYMEX product launch is available in the NYMEX Energy Futures on the CME Globex Platform Client Impact Assessment.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact:

Globex Control Center                (312) 456-2391