This is an update as of late Friday afternoon, September 14th, with further details on plans for Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. to resume trading of our equity index contracts.
If the U.S. securities markets re-open as planned on Monday, Sept. 17th, we will resume open outcry and electronic trading of our equity index products. Open outcry trading of CME�s U.S. equity index futures will begin at 8:30 a.m. Central time. On Monday, the September 2001 futures contract for all of CME�s U.S. equity index contracts will serve as the lead contract month.
GLOBEX� 2 electronic trading of CME�s equity index products will begin Monday at 8:15 a.m. to facilitate the orderly start of electronic trading in the E-mini S&P 500 Index� , E-mini Nasdaq-100 Index� and FORTUNE e-50 Index� . There will be a pre-opening procedure permitting the placement of GLOBEX2 orders beginning at 7:45 a.m.
As it did on Friday, open outcry trading of CME�s interest rate products will close on Monday at 1 p.m., with foreign exchange products closing at 2 p.m. as usual. Also as on Friday, GLOBEX2 electronic trading of interest rate and foreign exchange products will conclude at 2 p.m. on Monday. CME�s commodity products will trade at their usual times on Monday.
