Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. markets are closed today, September 12^th, and there will be no after-hours electronic trading this evening. All of CME�s markets except U.S. equity contracts will open Thursday morning at their usual times for open outcry, and the start of GLOBEX2 electronic trading will coincide with the open outcry start times. This will include CME�s interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity products, as well as Nikkei 225 stock index futures and options, in order to accommodate the last trading day of the Nikkei expiring contract.

The opening of U.S. equity contracts will be coordinated with U.S. securities exchanges, and is expected to occur no earlier than Friday. A moment of silence will be observed on CME�s trading floors at 11:00 a.m. Central Time to recognize the victims and survivors of yesterday�s tragic events.