Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) previously announced the launch date of Monday, Sept. 23 at 8:30 a.m., for the Energy, Financial and Technology SPCTR� futures products, pending regulatory approval. The Financial and Technology SPCTR� futures will begin trading on September 23rd, as previously announced. However, the Energy SPCTR� contract will launch on a future date. Please watch for information updates on the new start date for this particular contract.

These new contracts will be the first S&P 500 sector indexes to trade on a futures exchange. The contracts, sized at $125 times the respective index price, will trade on CME�s GLOBEX^� electronic trading platform.

Regular trading hours on GLOBEX will be from 3:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday (5:30 p.m. on Sundays and holidays) until 3:15 p.m. the following day. (All times are Central time.) The minimum tick size will be 0.10 index points equal to $12.50.

Questions regarding this notice may be directed to:

Stacey Jurek

312-338-2088

sjurek@cme.com