| S-3825 June 27, 2002 CME INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has announced the following trading schedule for the Independence Day holiday (all times are Central time): CME FLOOR TRADING AND GLOBEX� Wednesday, July 3 | All interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity futures and options on futures traded on CME�s trading floors close at noon (except commodity options, which close at 12:02 p.m.). Stock index and GSCI� products close at their regularly scheduled times. GLOBEX� electronic trading closes at noon for commodity products and 3:15 p.m. for interest rate, foreign exchange and stock index products. | Thursday, July 4 | Exchange trading floors are closed in observance of the Independence Day holiday. GLOBEX halts at 10:30 a.m. and resumes trading at 5:30 p.m. for the GLOBEX� trade date of Friday, July 5, 2002. | Friday, July 5 | Interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity futures and GSCI products traded on CME�s trading floors and on GLOBEX close at noon (except commodity options, which close at 12:02 p.m.). Stock index products traded on the trading floor and on GLOBEX close at 12:15 p.m. |
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Steven Youngren, Associate Director, Financial Research & Development, at (312) 930-4583, or Mrs. Georgette McDonald, Senior Market Analyst, Financial Research & Development, at (312) 930-4577. SIMEX Due to the Independence Day holiday, only the AM � SIMEX inter-exchange processing cycle will be run on Thursday, July 4th, 2002. Normal inter-exchange processing will resume on Friday, July 5th, 2002. If you have any questions regarding SIMEX holiday processing schedules, please contact Mr. Mark Cox, Clearing Operations Analyst, Trade Processing Unit, CME Clearing House, at (312) 648-8699. |
