Effective Tuesday, July 18, 2006, the new CME Economic Derivatives product, Core Consumer Price Index (CPI), will be directly available to CME Globex users via CME iLink for the Wednesday, July 19, 2006 auction. With this launch, CME Globex customers will be able to trade this new CME Economic Derivatives product on the CME Globex platform via the CME iLink interface in addition to the Web interfaces.  The Core CPI market data will be available on the CAM MDP channel, which is identical to the currently listed products.

More information on this product launch is available online.

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

Marilee Radecki                                312.930.8193                        mradecki@cme.com

Kevin Brady                                      312.648.3653                        kbrady@cme.com

Thank you.